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Apple is the most valuable technology company in the world (as of 2012), due to its array of desktop, laptop, and mobile products. Its 2007 introduction of the iPhone sparked a global boom in smartphones; its 2010 introduction of the iPad led to a revolution in the once-stagnant tablet space. Most major national and many…

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The Boston Globe is a leading U.S. metro newspaper and the oldest and largest daily in Boston. The Globe is renowned in particular for its sports journalism, and in the early 2000s, the paper played a key role in exposing the sexual abuse scandal among Boston-area Catholic priests. The paper’s investigative unit, the Boston Globe Spotlight Team, has…

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The Washington Post is a daily newspaper based in Washington, D.C. It is the United States’ eighth-largest newspaper and its second-largest newspaper website as of 2011. The paper was founded in 1877 and has been in the hands of the Meyer-Graham family since 1933. It is owned by The Washington Post Co., whose chairman and CEO…

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The Chi-Town Daily News was a nonprofit local news site in Chicago that folded in 2009 and reorganized as the for-profit Chicago Current. The Daily News was launched in 2005 by former Chicago Tribune reporter Geoff Dougherty and had a staff of eight at its peak. The site was funded by a combination of membership…

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AnnArbor.com is a local news website covering Ann Arbor, Mich., the operation of the former Ann Arbor News. The News, a daily newspaper, was closed by the Newhouse family’s Advance Publications newspaper chain in July 2009. It was reborn the next day as AnnArbor.com with a staff of 35 journalists. The company also issues a print edition…

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