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Web journalist and freelance writer David Cohn asserts that the system many publications, especially newspapers, use to fund their operations is broken.
 

TracFone promotes its wireless brand

NASHVILLE, TN: TracFone Wireless, with its AOR Interlex, plans to roll out its government-supported SafeLink Wireless program with a national awareness campaign starting this month in Georgia, Florida, and New York. It also introduced the brand, which is available to qualifying, low-income families, in Tennessee on August 15.
 

A new name for NASDAQ news service

NEW YORK: NASDAQ renamed its news distribution service as GlobeNewswire with an awareness effort that began at the opening bell August 22. Its former name was PrimeNewswire.
 

AMC responds to Twittering 'Mad Men' characters

Fans of AMC's 'Mad Men' who created Twitter accounts, posting as several of the show's characters like Don Draper and Peggy Olsen, were met with an unpleasant surprise earlier this week when some of these character accounts were suspended.
 

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MILWAUKEE, WI: Harley-Davidson hired Susan Henderson as VP of communications, reporting to CEO Jim Ziemer. Henderson, who most recently was VP of corporate communications for the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company in Chicago, will develop and direct Harley-Davidson's global strategic communications initiatives.

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