CBS News partners with foreign news startup as news organizations cut back staff abroad

October 7th, 2009 Scribd tries to help newspapers share documentsSAN FRANCISCO — Ever wonder where newspapers and blogs get some of their tantalizing tidbits? The online document-sharing service Scribd Inc. is trying to make it easier to find out by giving away a piece of its technology to major newspapers such as The New York Times and Los Angeles Times.

October 1st, 2009 Washington Post, Bloomberg to launch news serviceSAN FRANCISCO — The Washington Post and Bloomberg News are teaming up in a new partnership that will distribute their political and financial coverage to a broader audience. The venture announced Thursday includes a news service that fills the void created by the dissolution of a 47-year alliance between the Post and the Los Angeles Times.

September 23rd, 2009 Group: Too many soldiers in foreign service rolesWASHINGTON — Shortages among diplomats and civilian staff abroad have left U.S. reconstruction projects too reliant on military personnel to take their place, a nongovernment organization warned Wednesday.

September 2nd, 2009 ABC News: Gibson retiring, Sawyer will be anchorNEW YORK — ABC News says Charles Gibson is retiring and Diane Sawyer will replace him as the anchor of "World News." Sawyer's elevation means that, with Katie Couric, two of the three leading anchors for the broadcast networks will be women. Gibson said he had been planning to retire at the end of 2007 but events compelled him to stay.

August 21st, 2009 News Corp. unit prices $1 billion of new debtNEW YORK — News Corp. subsidiary News America Inc.

July 20th, 2009 Obama news conference moved to 8 p.m. WednesdayWASHINGTON — The White House says President Barack Obama's news conference on Wednesday will begin at 8 p.m.

July 13th, 2009 ABC News' Bob Woodruff returns to IraqNEW YORK — ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff returned to Iraq on Monday for the first time since he was nearly killed there by a roadside bomb more than three years ago. Woodruff is on a reporting trip that left Washington with Adm.

June 23rd, 2009 Viewers tune out networks' nightly news last weekNEW YORK — The big news in TV ratings last week was how so few people watched the news, according to Nielsen Media Research. Logging only 4.9 million viewers, the "CBS Evening News" dipped below 5 million for the first time on record.

June 19th, 2009 Google invests $2.6M in startup tied to BrinMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google is putting another $2.6 million into 23andMe, a biotech startup with family ties to its co-founder, Sergey Brin.

June 17th, 2009 Startup car company locating in MonroeMONROE, La. — A startup automobile company plans to assemble a new fuel-efficient vehicle in Louisiana, creating an estimated 1,400 jobs.

May 7th, 2009 LONDON - British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) News has announced its decision to sack nearly 90 jobs by 2010. The Mirror online reported that the bulk of the cuts are to take place in the news gathering team that will help save the group around 155 million pounds.

April 23rd, 2009 Denver online newspaper misses subscription goalDENVER — The future of a Denver online news venture, meant to fill a void left by the closure of the Rocky Mountain News, remains uncertain after it fell short of its subscriber goal and at least some of the staff parted ways with its financial backers. With backing from three entrepreneurs, former staffers of the News said they would launch InDenverTimes.com if they could get 50,000 paying subscribers by Thursday — what would have been the News' 150th anniversary.

April 21st, 2009 Commission studying news needs seeks public inputNEW YORK — As more and more news organizations go out of business, a commission is studying how people get their information today. The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy has set up an online interactive with PBS Engage at www.pbs.org/publicinput for people to weigh in on questions about how they get the news, whether it is online, in newspapers or TV and radio.

April 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bhupinder Singh Hooda of Haryana is one of the most politically stable among chief ministers in Congress-ruled states. So there was some flurry over 'breaking news' on TV that he could resign! A certain news channel showed the news that he had offered to resign over ticket allotments in Haryana for Lok Sabha seats, causing ripples in the state's political circles.

March 14th, 2009 NEW YORK - The Pak-American Society is gathering in New York on Saturday to stage a protest against the ban on Geo News transmission in Pakistan. "This is a dictatorial act perpetrated by a so called civilian government," The News quoted Pak-American Society President Sham-us-Zaman, as saying.