‘News & Events’ Archives
Mediaweek.com’s Top Stories of 2009
2009 was a year of great economic and media industry upheaval—and Mediaweek.com brought readers thorough, up-to-date news coverage of all the ad-supported media industries. The downturn did not spare any specific medium—and as you'll find on this report, the 2009 Top Ten Most-Read Stories on Mediaweek.com, all media are present. 1. [...]
The 51 Best Magazines Ever
The editors of Good magazine have compiled a list of the top (smartest, prettiest, coolest, funniest, most Influential, most necessary, most Important, most essential, etc.) magazines ever. Check out all 51... 1. Esquire. Under Harold T.P. Hayes (1961-1973) 2. The New Yorker 3. Life. (1936-1972) 4. Playboy 5. The New York Times Magazine 6. [...]
Timeline of History: 60,000 BCE to the Present
Frank Smitha began writing the unbiased history of the world that appears on Fsmitha.com in 1987. His website contains a description of events and ideas from prehistory to the 21st century - stories that you can connect into a big picture. The timeline section linked here begins with 60,000 BCE (the Common Era is the period of measured time [...]
The Top News Sites of 2006
Newsknife.com rates news sites based on relevance analysis within the main Google News site. These ratings are based on a sample of 438,330 individual listings at Google News by 4504 sites for 1768 news items during 2006... 1. ABC News 2. New York Times 3. Reuters 4. Washington Post 5. Times Online, UK 6. Forbes 7. Guardian Unlimited, [...]
43 Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing The World
The 43 organizations that received the Fast Company/Monitor Group Social Capitalist Awards for 2007 have found a better way to do good: They're using the disciplines of the corporate world to tackle daunting social problems. The Social Capitalist Awards define strong performance as a combination of both social impact and organizational [...]
The Most Influential Figures in American History
The Atlantic has published a list of the top 100 influential figures in American history. It was compiled by asking a panel of ten historians to each produce a list, and the lists were then merged. Check out the full list... 1. Abraham Lincoln 2. George Washington 3. Thomas Jefferson 4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 5. Alexander Hamilton 6. [...]
The Best Magazine Covers of the Year
The best magazine covers of the year were unveiled today at the American Magazine Conference, by Cynthia Leive, President of the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) and Editor-in-Chief of Glamour, and Marlene Kahan, ASME's Executive Director. The conference, a premier industry event attended by executive-level magazine publishers and [...]
100 Best Events in North America 2007
The American Bus Association's Top 100 Events in North America is an annual compendium of the best events for group travel in the United States and Canada. Each spring, a committee of ABA-member motorcoach and tour operators selects the top 100 events for the subsequent year; the list is unveiled in September. Winners are chosen from hundreds of [...]
The Best Podcasts
PodcastBunker.com finds and lists the best podcasts, taking audio quality and the value of the content into consideration. The site offers podcast reviews and 30 second previews to help you decide what you want to hear... Podcasting is online audio content that is delivered via an RSS feed. Podcasting works the same as a standard RSS feed [...]
MSN.com’s Hot List
The hottest content on MSN.com: Most popular headlines, top videos, sports, greeting cards, tech, people searches, money makers, most downloaded songs, and top movies...
Every Time Magazine Cover Since 1923
Time's archive features over 40 years of magazine covers. To browse through an issue, select a year in the covers gallery. Click on the cover image and you'll find a table of contents with links to the articles from that issue. Find out what was on the cover the week you were born...
25 Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing The World
The Fast Company / Monitor Group 2006 Social Capitalist Award winners include 25 entrepreneurs solving the world's toughest problems with creativity, ingenuity, and passion. These amazing organizations have found a better way to do good: They're using the disciplines of the corporate world to tackle daunting social problems.
The Most Influential New Yorkers
The people whose ideas, power, and sheer will are changing New York. New York Magazine looked for specific trends their influentials are driving, people who were not just keeping the seats of power warm but who were effecting real change. The list moves from culture to media to politics and business and so on. Within each field, do not read a [...]
Most Popular Stories on Digg.com
Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do. These stories have recieved the most diggs...
Top Online News Sources
The most-linked-to news sources today, as tracked by BlogPulse.com. Top News Sources lists the major established news sources (TV networks, online news web sites, newspapers, magazines, etc.) that bloggers are linking to the most in their posts on any [...]
25 Hottest Urban Legends
Snopes.com compiles the 25 urban legends currently circulating most widely, as determined by frequency of access, user searches, reader email, and media coverage.
Best-of-Craigslist Postings
The best-of postings are nominated by Craigslist readers. Peruse at your own risk.
Top 100 April Fools Day Hoaxes of All Time
From the Museum of Hoaxes, the Top 100 April Fools Day Hoaxes of All Time, as judged by notoriety, absurdity, and number of people duped.
Top Ten News Stories of 2005
Natural disasters dominated the news in 2005. A devastating storm, Hurricane Katrina, and its aftermath was the top story for the year. U.S. editors and news directors overwhelmingly picked the lethal hurricane and the deadly flooding which ravaged New Orleans, in The Associated Press' annual vote.
CNET News.com Top 100 Blogs
With more than 14 million blogs in existence and another 80,000 being created each day, how is a person supposed to find the ones worth reading? That is the question CNET News.com is attempted to answer with their first Blog 100 list.
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