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British Broadcasting Corporation - BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually
referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and
largest broadcaster in the world. The BBC is funded by an annual television
licence fee, which is charged to all United Kingdom households using equipment
capable of recording and/or receiving live television broadcasts; the level of
the fee is set by the UK Government under a multi-year agreement with the
Corporation. It operates under a Royal Charter granted by the British monarch.
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BusinessWeek
BusinessWeek is a business magazine published
by McGraw-Hill. It was first published in 1929 (as The Business Week) under the
direction of Malcolm Muir, who was serving as president of the McGraw-Hill
Publishing company at the time. (Prior to 1929, it was titled System, published
out of Chicago by Arch W. Shaw, the first publisher of Harvard Business Review.)
Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune
and Forbes, which are published bi-weekly.
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Cable News Network - CNN
Cable News Network, almost always referred to
by its initialism CNN, is an U.S. cable news network founded in 1980 by Ted
Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first network to provide 24-hour television
news coverage, and the first all-news television network in the United States.
While the news network has numerous affiliates, CNN primarily broadcasts from
its headquarters at the CNN Center in Atlanta, the Time Warner Center in New
York City, and studios in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles. CNN is owned by
parent company Time Warner, and the U.S. news network is a division of the
Turner Broadcasting System.
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Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British
international business newspaper. It is a morning daily newspaper published in
London and is printed at 22 sites. Its primary rival is New York City-based The
Wall Street Journal.
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Google News
Google News is an automated news aggregator
provided by Google Inc. The initial idea, StoryRank—related to Google's PageRank
formula—was developed by Krishna Bharat in 2001, the Principal Research
Scientist of Google. No human is involved in the altering of the front page or
story promotion, beyond tweaking the aggregation algorithm. Google News left
beta in January 2006.
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The Guardian
The Guardian Weekly, which circulates
worldwide, provides a compact digest of four newspapers. It contains articles
from The Guardian and its Sunday, sister paper The Observer, as well as reports,
features and book reviews from The Washington Post and articles translated from
Le Monde.
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Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly newsmagazine
published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and
internationally. It is the second largest news weekly magazine in the U.S.,
having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its
existence. Newsweek is published in four English language editions and 12 global
editions written in the language of the circulation region.
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Reuters
Reuters Group Limited is a UK-based,
Canadian-controlled news service and former financial market data provider that
provides reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters. News
reporting once accounted for less than 10% of the company's income. Its main
focus was on supplying the financial markets with information and trading
products. These included market data, such as share prices and currency rates,
research and analytics, as well as trading systems that allowed dealers to buy
and sell such assets as currencies and shares on a computer screen instead of by
telephone or on a trading floor like that of the New York Stock Exchange. Among
other services, the most notable was analysis of 40,000 companies, debt
instruments, and 3 million economic series.
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Voice of America
Voice of America (VOA) is the official external
radio and television broadcasting service of the United States federal
government. Its oversight entity is the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG).
VOA provides a wide range of programming for broadcast on radio, TV and the
Internet around the world in forty-six languages, promoting a positive view of
the United States. Its day-to-day operations is supported by the International
Broadcasting Bureau (IBB).
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an English-language
international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company, a division of
News Corporation, in New York City, with Asian and European editions. As of
2007, it has a worldwide daily circulation of more than 2 million, with
approximately 931,000 paying online subscribers.
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The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel (also TWC) is a U.S. cable
and satellite television network that broadcasts weather forecasts and
weather-related news 24 hours a day. In addition to its cable TV programming,
TWC also provides forecasts for terrestrial and satellite radio stations,
newspapers, and websites, and maintains an extensive online presence at
weather.com.
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Yahoo! News
Yahoo! News is an Internet-based news
aggregator provided by Yahoo!. It features Top Stories, U.S. National, World,
Business, Entertainment, Science, Health, Weather, Most Popular, News Photos,
Op/Ed, and Local news.
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