Michael Oreskes, the executive editor of The International Herald Tribune, is taking a newly created position as managing editor for United States news at The Associated Press.
Michael Oreskes, editor of the International Herald Tribune and a longtime news executive for The New York Times, has been named by The Associated Press to the new position of managing editor for U.S. news.
A federal court jury on Thursday broadly cleared News Corp's NDS unit of satellite television piracy charges in a suit brought by DISH Network that could have been worth more than $1 billion.
CBS Corp. agreed to buy online technology news and entertainment company CNet Networks Inc. for about $1.75 billion, expanding its access to the burgeoning Internet advertising market.
Europe's main stock markets diverged on Thursday as companies published mixed earnings news, and after share-price gains in Tokyo and overnight on Wall Street, dealers said.
