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http://europe.wsj.com/ The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international
daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news. It is
published six days a week in New York City by Dow
Jones & Company, a division of News
Corp, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal. The Journal is the largest newspaper in the United States, by
circulation. According to the Alliance
for Audited Media, it has a circulation of about 2.4 million copies
(including nearly 900,000 digital subscriptions), as of March 2013, compared with USA Today's 1.7 million.
Its main rival in the business newspaper sector is the London-based Financial Times, which also
publishes several international editions. The Journal primarily covers American economic and international
business topics, and financial
news and issues. Its name derives from Wall
Street, located in New York City, which is the heart of the financial district; it has been
printed continuously since its inception on July 8, 1889, byCharles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. The newspaper
version has won the Pulitzer
Prize thirty-four times, including 2007 prizes for its reporting on backdated stock options and the adverse effects of China's booming economy. |
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ National Geographic,
formerly the National
Geographic Magazine, is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society. It has
been published continuously since its first issue in 1888, nine months after
the Society itself was founded. It primarily contains articles about geography,
history, and world culture. The magazine is known for its thick square-bound
glossy format with a yellow rectangular border and its extensive use of
dramatic photographs. The
magazine is published monthly, and additional map supplements are also included
with subscriptions. It is available in a traditional printed edition and
through an interactive online edition. On occasion, special editions of the
magazine are issued. |
http://www.reuters.com/ Reuters is an international news
agency headquartered in Canary
Wharf, London, United
Kingdom and a division of Thomson
Reuters. Until 2008, the Reuters news agency formed
part of an independent company, Reuters
Group plc, which was also a provider of financial
market data. Since the acquisition of Reuters Group by The Thomson Corporation in 2008, the Reuters news agency has been a part of Thomson
Reuters, forming part of its financial and risk division. It transmits news in English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese. |
http://dsc.discovery.com/ Discovery Channel (often referred to as simply
"Discovery", and formerly "The Discovery Channel" from 1985
to 1995) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel (which is also delivered via IPTV, terrestrial television and internet
television in other parts of the
world) that is the flagship television
property of Discovery
Communications, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. As of June
2012, Discovery Channel is the second most widely distributed cable channel in
the United States, behind TBS; it is available in 409 million
households worldwide, through its U.S. flagship channel and its various owned
or licensed television channels internationally.
It
initially provided documentary television programming focused primarily on popular science,
technology and history, but in recent years has expanded into reality television and pseudo-scientific entertainment. Programming on the
flagship Discovery Channel in the U.S. is primarily focused on reality television series, such as speculative
investigation (with shows such as MythBusters, Unsolved History and Best
Evidence), automobiles, and occupations (such as Dirty Jobs and Deadliest
Catch); it also features documentaries specifically aimed at families and
younger audiences. A popular annual feature on the channel is Shark Week, which airs on
Discovery during the summer months |