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Date: 09 December 2014
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Get recommendations from New York Times reporters and editors, highlighting great stories from around the web. Today, great reads from Jenna Wortham, Nicholas Confessore and others.
8. joulukuuta 2014 oli maanantaina tähtimerkin ♐ alla. Se oli 341 päivä vuodesta. Yhdysvaltain presidentti oli Barack Obama.
Jos olet syntynyt tänä päivänä, olet 11 vuotta vanha. Viimeisin syntymäpäiväsi oli maanantaina 8. joulukuuta 2025, 178 päivää sitten. Seuraava syntymäpäiväsi on tiistaina 8. joulukuuta 2026, 186 päivän kuluttua. Olet elänyt 4 196 päivää tai noin 100 721 tuntia tai noin 6 043 286 minuuttia tai noin 362 597 160 sekuntia.
Date: 09 December 2014
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Get recommendations from New York Times reporters and editors, highlighting great stories from around the web. Today, great reads from Jenna Wortham, Nicholas Confessore and others.
Date: 09 December 2014
By ALLAN KOZINN
Allan KOZINN
This year’s winners do not include any directors, conductors or composers.
Date: 09 December 2014
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Highlights from the report and reaction from across the political spectrum.
Date: 09 December 2014
By JOE NOCERA
Joe NOCERA
Joe Nocera Op-Ed column foresees grim future for The New Republic now that most of its senior staff have departed in protest of changes instituted by owner Chris Hughes; observes Hughes's vision of a profitable, vertically integrated media company is at odds with the history of publication that has traditionally lost money in order to preserve its distinctive voice in policy debate.
Date: 08 December 2014
By CHOE SANG-HUN
Choe SANG-HUN
North Korea denies hacking attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, but expresses delight at breach of company as it prepares to release The Interview, comedy about plot to assassinate country's leader Kim Jong-un.
Date: 08 December 2014
By JONATHAN MAHLER and RAVI SOMAIYA
Jonathan MAHLER
Recent changes at The New Republic by owner Chris Hughes, a Facebook founder, have led to some staff resignations, including that of editor Franklin Foer, and forced magazine to cancel its next issue; Hughes defends his stewardship of magazine, which included setting aggressive targets for web traffic and proposals to turn magazine into technology company.
Date: 08 December 2014
By RAVI SOMAIYA
Ravi SOMAIYA
Rolling Stone magazine is regrouping following reports from The Washington Post cast doubts on magazine's November story of a gang rape at University of Virginia fraternity party; story helped drive national debate over problem of sexual assault on college campuses; publication, whose editors have admitted they relied solely on word of accuser, now faces serious challenge to its journalistic reputation.
Date: 09 December 2014
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
John WILFORD
John Noble Wilford First Person essay recalls spending long night in 1965, while he was at Time magazine, writing story about spacecraft Mariner 4's photographs of Mars; says experienced caused him to change his focus from political journalism to science and space journalism, and eventually led him to New York Times.
Date: 08 December 2014
By JESS MACY YU
Jess YU
A People’s Daily editorial has warned the media and public to stick to a “smog-free” news environment, in an appeal that melds old-style censorship and morality with contemporary environmental challenges.