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Media companies are encouraging their journalists to tweet with the objective of boosting readership, listenership and viewership, yet disciplining employees—sometimes severely—when management disapproves of a tweet. Where’s the line? What’s a toxic tweet? Is tweeting for the birds? Are media companies hypocritical or digitally savvy? Come hear our panel of experts from the worlds of social media, journalism, academia and law as they discuss these issues at the New York Newspaper Guild on Thursday, May 17, 2012. The panel will be preceded by a brief reception at 6:30 p.m., and will start at 7:00 p.m. sharp. The moderator of the panel is Allan Chernoff, a media counselor at Fleishman-Hillard and long-time senior correspondent at CNN and CNBC, as well as a member of The Deadline ... Continue reading →

We also have more stories about:(click the phrases to see a list) People:Organizations:Subjects:Places: Photos: FILE - In this undated file photo, Associated Press photographer Horst Faas is shown on assignment with soldiers in South Vietnam. Faas, a prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world's legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with The Associated Press, died Thursday May 10, 2012. He was 79. (AP Photo/File) NEW YORK — Horst Faas, a prize-winning combat photographer who carved out new standards for covering war with a camera and became one of the world's legendary photojournalists in nearly half a century with The Associated Press, died Thursday. He was 79. His daughter, Clare Faas, confirmed ... Continue reading →

Raytheon Invites 50 Twitter Followers to a Tweetup at the Farnborough International Airshow Last updated: 05/10/2012*Raytheon will invite 50 of its Twitter followers to participate in a day of activities at the Farnborough International Airshow on Friday, July 13. The Tweetup will provide Raytheon’s social media followers with exclusive access to the Airshow via Raytheon’s hub at Farnborough. The Farnborough International Airshow is a global event that brings together companies from the aerospace, defense, space and security sectors to showcase and demonstrate aircraft, equipment and technologies. It is one of the largest, most diverse gatherings of the international aviation community in the world.Participants in the Raytheon Tweetup at Farnborough will have the opportunity to watch the flying displays from a private balcony with unobstructed views ... Continue reading →

Raytheon Invites 50 Twitter Followers to a Tweetup at the Farnborough International Airshow Last updated: 05/10/2012*Raytheon will invite 50 of its Twitter followers to participate in a day of activities at the Farnborough International Airshow on Friday, July 13. The Tweetup will provide Raytheon’s social media followers with exclusive access to the Airshow via Raytheon’s hub at Farnborough. The Farnborough International Airshow is a global event that brings together companies from the aerospace, defense, space and security sectors to showcase and demonstrate aircraft, equipment and technologies. It is one of the largest, most diverse gatherings of the international aviation community in the world.Participants in the Raytheon Tweetup at Farnborough will have the opportunity to watch the flying displays from a private balcony with unobstructed views ... Continue reading →

Choose quality ▼ Embed code ▼ Second-Generation Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System Completes Successful Intercept Flight Test The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy sailors aboard the USS LAKE ERIE (CG 70) successfully conducted a flight test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system, resulting in the first intercept of a short-range ballistic missile target over the Pacific Ocean by the Navy’s newest Missile Defense interceptor, the Standard Missile – 3 (SM-3) Block 1B. At 8:18 p.m. Hawaiian Standard Time (2:18 a.m. EDT May 10) the target missile was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, located on Kauai, Hawaii. The target flew on a northwesterly trajectory towards a broad ocean area of the Pacific Ocean. Following target launch, the USS LAKE ERIE ... Continue reading →