David B. Simon, an award-winning editor with experience at several Maryland newspapers, has been named editor of The Daily Record, Publisher Suzanne E. Fischer-Huettner announced Thursday.

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Staff members for The Daily Record have won 49 journalism awards and 10 advertising awards in state and national competitions this year. The newspaper’s “Too Big To Fail?” series on the $1.8 billion East Baltimore Development Inc. project took top ...

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Jess Blumberg has been promoted to senior editor at Baltimore magazine. Blumberg has been a member of the Baltimore magazine editorial team since February 2008, serving as an associate editor. During that time, she has edited and written features and ...

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For many journalists, making the transition into a law career is an easy, if not common one. That is, unless you are disgraced former reporter Stephen Glass. Glass made waves in the media world in 1998 after it was discovered ...

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NEW YORK — Calling it the next logical step in a near six-decade evolution, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. said Thursday that it plans to split into two separate publicly traded companies. Under the proposal, one company will operate as a ...

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PHILADELPHIA — A group of powerful local business leaders announced Monday that they have purchased Philadelphia’s two largest newspapers from hedge funds for approximately $55 million, a fraction of what investors paid for them in 2006. It is the fifth ...

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COLLEGE PARK — Media companies, struggling in a time of economic uncertainty, are increasingly relying on students to plug information gaps for the public, according to a new report released at Journalism Interactive, an international conference on digital journalism education ...

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Kevin Klose, who has served as dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park since February 2009, announced he will step down from the post on June 30, 2012. Klose did not cite ...

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Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart is highly partisan, frequently newsworthy and, likely depending on your political views, to be roundly admired or soundly criticized. But Breitbart is credited by all with first reporting the indiscreet tweets of Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y. ...

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Staff members of The Daily Record have won high honors in two journalism contests. On April 21-22, the staff took 51 awards in the annual contests sponsored by the Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Press Association, winning 20 in the advertising design ...

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