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Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange : Coalcorp Mining Inc.

Toronto - The Canadian Press Published on Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 9:54AM EST R ussian uranium producer Atomredmetzoloto JSC said Friday it had made an all-cash offer to acquire Toronto based miner Khan Resources Inc.

National Public Radio has been recently getting more aggressive in promoting sponsorship packages in advertising industry trades.

That's what you are. Mensa members. When I recently wrote about my fondness for the one-story-high Knight Ridder signs floating like ghosts above downtown San Jose, I suggested we might repurpose the signs' letters, which currently stand in memorial to a newspaper company that no longer exists.

The disgruntled creditors trying to take control of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News will have to make an actual cash bid if they want to take ownership of the properties, rather than simply foreclosing on them, according to a Federal district court judge.

In recent weeks, folks have suggested that cloud computing will cause the demise of the IT department.

Jonathan Landay was part of one of the greatest "if only" newspaper stories of the last 10 years - as in "if only more people had read it." You might have seen Landay in a PBS program about the reporting that was done and not done during the run-up to the war in Iraq.

Bhavna Patel removes unwanted hair, but it's not done by waxing. Instead, she uses a 300-year-old practice known as threading.

The McClatchy Company is, once again, proving itself to be about the only mainstream large-ish media company in the United States that is worth reading.

We've known since February that Newsday.com was going to be put behind a paywall so its parent company Cablevision could see if any of that Wall Street Journal magic could rub off on them and actually get users to pay for online content.

In 2006, the McClatchy Co. bought the Akron Beacon Journal's parent company, Knight Ridder, folded its holdings into McClatchy and got rid of properties including the Beacon Journal.

They are massive, can't-miss shiny silver signs that for the past decade have held a dominant spot in the San Jose skyline and a special place in my heart.

I was sorry to have missed the Web 2.0 Summit this year. Over the weekend I watched a couple of the session videos.

Mike McQueen, chief of bureau for The Associated Press in Louisiana and Mississippi, has died.

Restaurants are aware that Americans are becoming health-conscious. Photo courtesy Knight Ridder Tribune McDonald's is changing its ways to become a healthier choice for adults on the run.

If you excel at grammar and thrive on detailed work, copy editing is the career for you.

The New York Times' Bay Area edition is out and is, for the moment anyway, being reported in-house. The four prominent features are: A piece on the annual 2-percent property tax increase by local writer Scott James A profile of the new Oakland police chief, Anthony W. Batts by Jesse McKinley, the Times' San Francisco bureau chief, Jesse McKinley A ...

"How do you this?" the teabagger on his 9-12 parade asks when told there were Czars under Reagan.

NEW YORK Alison Young, president of Investigative Reporters and Editors -- who also writes the Watchdog column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- will leave the paper later this month to join USA Today.

AAJA, NABJ, NAHJ, NAJA, ONA Wayne State University Press Great Lakes Books Series advisory board Council of Asian Pacific Americans advisory board More Information Joe Grimm is a visiting journalist at Michigan State University's School of Journalism where he teaches reporting and writing.