People who make any effort whatsoever to keep in touch with the office of US Rep. Howard Coble, the Republican who represents North Carolinas 6 th Congressional District, will know that Ed McDonald, chief of staff and press secretary, is absolutely indispensable for his operation.

Lewis Howes, author of two LinkedIn business books and a LinkedIn training course, claims this move “paves the way for other social platforms to see their potential for their IPO success in the future…. It is a good sign that IPOs are being brought to the market again,” Howes says.

Last week, Wake Forest University president Nathan Hatch issued a letter in response to allegations leveled by former Wake student Maggie Hurt that former Wake basketball player Gary Clark sexually assaulted her as Clarks teammate, Jeff Teague, stood guard outside the door of the Miami hotel room after an NCAA tournament game in 2009.

Clear Channel Radio Operations Manager Jeff Cushman announced the appointment of a new program director for WMKS (105.7 FM, NOW) and WVBZ (100.3 FM the Buzz) who goes simply by the name JoJo on May 13. I had the opportunity to talk to many qualified candidates and JoJo simply stood out.

With the redistricting process for the Guilford County Commission in its early stages, much of the discourse has taken place on the comment thread of conservative activist Joe Guarinos blog. Partisan power politics, media fairness and legal intricacies have all been batted around.

One example is fracking, a process by which fluid is used to fracture rocks and recover deposits of natural gas, that is under consideration in North Carolina.

Facebook, the social networking empire, has expanded its reach just a little further with a new discount feature. Emily White, director of local at Facebook, announced the launch of Deals on Facebook, a service that rivals Groupon and LivingSocial, on Tuesday.

Take it with a grain of salt: John Cook and Hamilton Nolans Monday Gawker piece on Fox News chief Roger Ailes relies almost entirely on anonymous sources. As Ailes nears retirement, he appears to have transferred much of his energy into two small-town newspapers in New Yorks Hudson Valley that he purchased in the past three years.

The Asheboro Courier-Tribune announced last week that the daily newspaper will decrease its publication by one-seventh after pulling out on the Monday edition beginning April 25. Publisher Diane Winnemuller blamed the economy and the changing face of the newspaper business for the move.

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But when IRS Special Agent Robert W. Norlander heard the story, he had another reaction. “I was wondering how, how does a guy train for this because most people have top work from 9 to 5….”

According to Kevin Cullen at the Boston Globe, former New Hampshire Union Leader sportswriter Kevin Provencher was sentenced to 2.5 years in jail after being found guilty on prostitution charges Friday.

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An old feud between tea party activist Jeff Hyde and political power couple Nancy and Don Vaughan cropped up on Facebook late last week as a conspiracy theory that Nancy Vaughan was trying to torpedo Hydes candidacy for Guilford County Republican Party chair by peddling the criminal record of one of Hydes associates to reporters.

YES! Weekly is proud to have received the NC Press Associations second-place award for general excellence in community newspapers Division C, for weekly publications with a circulation of more than 10,000.

Consider the AOL/Huffington Post merger, which is technically a buyout on the part of the old internet giant which will absorb HuffPo but, according to reports, will also be strangely consumed by it.

Jason Walser, executive director of the Land Trust for Central North Carolina, is claiming that a reporter for the Carolina Journal, the monthly publication of the John Locke Foundation, informed him that a number of statements attributed to him in a Jan.

Believe me, I take no pleasure in relaying the fact that the Charlotte Observer reported Monday that it would be shedding 20 jobs, including five in the newsroom, as well as adding weeklong furloughs for all salaried employees.

This past Sunday, News & Record Publisher Robin Saul announced that beginning Feb. 1, the page width of the paper would be reduced by an inch and a half in an effort to cut costs. On Jan.

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