Sentences with phrase «figures as reporters»

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After several meetings discussing ostensibly legitimate projects, the reporter unexpectedly and suddenly turned the conversation towards practices such as corruption and the entrapment of political figures.

The 19 - year - old gold - medal - winning figure skater is covering the Athens Olympics as a reporter for New York City's WCBS - TV.

Allardyce is around 40 games short of reaching the four - figure mark as a manager after his England reign ended after just 67 days last month, following comments made to undercover newspaper reporters.

A number of our distinguished literary figures cut their pens on parliamentary reporting, as described by Nikki Hessell in Literary Authors, Parliamentary Reporters: Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Dickens (Cambridge University Press, # 55).

«Albany is continuing its session as we speak,» he told reporters after an education press conference in East Harlem... Since taking office last year, de Blasio has struggled to figure out the best strategy for dealing with Albany and, in particular, the governor.

Kander, the former Missouri secretary of state and failed 2016 Senate candidate who has become an unlikely national Democratic figure, is bringing on Jason Noble, who on Friday announced he was leaving his job as political reporter for the Des Moines Register.

Quinn hedged four more times as reporters asked whether Cuomo, a Democrat, supported the $ 15 figure that the Working Families Party and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio have championed.

The thin storyline follows ace reporter Rowena Price (Halle Berry) as she goes undercover to prove that her childhood friend was murdered by Bruce Willis» Harrison Hill, with complications ensuing as Rowena finds herself surrounded by suspects and shady figures - including her off - kilter assistant at the paper (Giovanni Ribisi's Miles Haley) and her on - again - off - again boyfriend (Gary Dourdan's Cameron).

Wolfe structures the story a bit like Citizen Kane, in which the plot - quest of an investigative reporter serves primarily as the vehicle to tell the broader story of a historical figure's life — but this time with all sorts of racial complications and resonances.

Johnny Depp stars as L.A.P.D. detective Russell Poole (played by Jimmi Simpson in the USA series), who spent years trying to solve the death of Notorious B.I.G.. Two decades after the murder, Poole teams up with a reporter desperate to save his career (Forest Whitaker) to not only try to solve the mystery behind the rapper's death but also to figure out the truth as to why it never got solved in the first place.

is a movie about many things — a person figuring out her priorities, a reminder of the treatment of women in countries where a religion's rules treat them as second - class citizens, a study of the addictive nature of high - pressure and dangerous situations, a biographical account of a reporter's experience covering a war, a consideration of how the news can abandon one battlefield for another when the public's attention becomes distracted.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a movie about many things — a person figuring out her priorities, a reminder of the treatment of women in countries where a religion's rules treat them as second - class citizens, a study of the addictive nature of high - pressure and dangerous situations, a biographical account of a reporter's experience covering a war, a consideration of how the news can abandon one battlefield for another when the public's attention becomes distracted.

Maybe the director's greatest trick is turning reporters and fans into Dark Knight Detectives as they try to figure out what's happening with the movie.

As the House was passing its version of the stimulus package (see Figure 1), Frederick Hess of the American Enterprise Institute noted that most of the money simply gave states dollars to keep intact the programs of the past: «It's like an alcoholic at the end of the night when the bars close and the solution is to open the bar for another hour,» he told a New York Times reporter.

He worked as an apprentice reporter at the City News Bureau and from 1952 to 1954 took classes in painting, figure drawing, and anatomy at the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago.

Brulle mildly referenced his inadequate methodology 2, but he likely knew reporters would distort his bloated figure and attribute every penny to climate change «denial,» as the Guardian and many others did.

Figures such as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, former President Bill Clinton, writer and activist Bill McKibben, environmental reporter Mark Hertsgaard, and numerous others all have connected the dots between the tragedy in New York City and its excerbation at the hands of climate change.

In October 1998, CEI staff figured prominently in a press advisory sent to reporters by the conservative Media Research Center, offering them as «credible sources» who can show that «many scientists are skeptical of climate change theories,» «a warmer earth may be a prosperous earth,» «global warming policies would harm the US economy,» and «the Kyoto protocol could undermine US national security.»

After several meetings discussing ostensibly legitimate projects, the reporter unexpectedly and suddenly turned the conversation towards practices such as corruption and the entrapment of political figures.

In April 2013, New York Times technology and finance reporter Nathaniel Popper described the Winkelvoss twins as «the first prominent figures in the largely anonymous bitcoin world».

As a reporter for the school newspaper or secretary of your sorority, you now possess highly - valued writing talents and are adept at coordinating facts, figures, dates and details and meeting deadlines.