CNN President Tries to Repeat Success in Morning News
Date: 29 January 2013
By Brian Stelter
Brian Stelter
A new morning show is the first of several building blocks for the struggling cable news channel, led by Jeff Zucker, who revived the “Today” show for NBC.
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And in Last Week’s Gun News ...
Date: 29 January 2013
By Joe Nocera
Joe Nocera
A small sampling of news articles from around the country gives a sense of the Second Amendment’s toll.
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Good News for Bad People as Showtime, Cinemax and BBC America Renew Series
Date: 29 January 2013
By Dave Itzkoff
Dave Itzkoff
Showtime renewed its dark comedies “Shameless,” “Californication” and “House of Lies,” as Cinemax ordered a second season of its action thriller “Banshee,” and BBC America picked up a second season of its period crime drama “Ripper Street.”
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Carville and Matalin Part Ways With CNN
Date: 29 January 2013
By Bran Stelter
Bran Stelter
The husband-and-wife, Democrat-and-Republican pair are two of CNN’s best-known contributors. For years they co-hosted “Crossfire”; after it was canceled, they were regulars on “The Situation Room” and election night specials.
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Ukrainian General Sentenced to Life in Journalist’s Killing
Date: 29 January 2013
By Ellen Barry
Ellen Barry
Gen. Olexey Pukach testified that he had not intended to kill the journalist, Georgy Gongadze, but strangled him accidentally during an interrogation.
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Somalia Moves to Prosecute Woman Who Accused Soldiers of Rape
Date: 30 January 2013
By Jeffrey Gettleman
Jeffrey Gettleman
The Somali government said that the woman was lying for financial gain and that she later admitted that her story was “bogus.” Her husband, and a journalist who interviewed her, have been jailed.
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Super Bowl Media Day
Date: 30 January 2013
Justin Sablich and Zena Barakat
Justin Sablich
A spectacle of the absurd and the hilarious as the year’s biggest football game approaches.
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Jim Nabors Marries Partner in Seattle
Date: 30 January 2013
By Dave Itzkoff
Dave Itzkoff
The actor, 82, who played the hapless if loveable Gomer Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,” was said to have married Stan Cadwallader, 64, his partner of 38 years, in a private ceremony in a Seattle hotel room on Jan. 15.
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‘Katie’ to Return for a Second Season
Date: 30 January 2013
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
The renewal is good news for Katie Couric, who took something of a risk leaving the network news business, where she had most recently been the anchor of CBS News.
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With Attitude and Tonics, 22 Gins Mixed and Matched
Date: 29 January 2013
By Steve Reddicliffe
Steve Reddicliffe
Cata on the Lower East Side specializes in tapas and 22 gin and tonics, and each drink is made with a different gin.
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