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LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Nevada’s largest newspaper has a new publisher credited with growing circulation and business at the newspapers he’s led.
GateHouse Media announced Thursday that Jason Taylor will be president and publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Taylor arrives in Las Vegas nearly a year into his tenure as president and publisher of The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi, which is owned by Gannett Co. He was president of the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee for seven years, and senior vice-president of sales and marketing for The Honolulu Advertiser.
Taylor is expected to start July 6 and will also lead the company’s new GateHouse Media Live and Virtual Events division from Las Vegas.
GateHouse is a wholly owned subsidiary of New York-based New Media Investment Group Inc., which bought the Review-Journal from Stephens Media LLC in February.
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International creditors sent Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras home from a summit Thursday with a clear message: swiftly tone down your demands in the bailout talks over the next week or face financial ruin.

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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is stepping down and co-founder Jack Dorsey is temporarily taking the reins at the social networking service, which has seen an extended stock slide amid poor financial performance.

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It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks at work and things at home have been busy as well.  We’re looking forward to entertaining this weekend and taking some much needed social time as downtime.  Enjoy your plans and see you here again next week!
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VANCOUVER – A Malaysia-led consortium has announced conditional approval for a potential $36-billion dollar liquefied natural gas project in northeast British Columbia.
Pacific NorthWest LNG, which is controlled by Malaysian energy giant Petronas, says it will confirm a final investment decision on the project subject to two conditions.
The first condition is approval of the project development agreement by the B.C. legislature, while the second condition is a positive environmental assessment by the federal government.
President Michael Culbert says Pacific NorthWest LNG will continue to engage with area First Nations, local communities, stakeholders and regulators.
He says the project is poised to create thousands of construction and operational careers amid the current energy sector slowdown.
The consortium is proposing to build an LNG export facility at Lelu Island near Prince Rupert, B.C., which would represent the largest captial investment in the province’s history.
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