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- Posted Feb 04, 2010
- Blogging Is for Old People, Pew Report Finds
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Teenagers and young adults spent less time blogging during the past three years as social networks like Facebook became more popular, according to a Pew Research Center study. Still, one social network, Twitter, has failed to catch on with the vast majority of younger teenagers, according to the Pew study of social media and mobile Internet use among teens and young adults.
- CBS News Lays Off Dozens of Workers
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Dozens of employees at CBS News were laid off in recent days amid a new round of budget cuts at the third-place network’s news division.
Some employees were reassigned and others were demoted in the process. Speaking on condition of anonymity because they feared further layoffs, CBS employees said the cuts affected network programs like “The Early Show” and “60 Minutes,” and its news-gathering bureaus.
- Posted Feb 03, 2010
- Dear Local News, Don't Blame Jay Leno
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Tom Denari writes: "Maybe [NBC affiliates] should blame the lost viewers on the fact that we all have too many remote controls, and we can't figure out which is the right one. Or maybe it's actually because viewers are so ambivalent about their late local news that they aren't willing to press a couple of buttons on their remotes to change the station. It's not Jay's fault. Local news has become a faceless commodity."
- Posted Feb 01, 2010
- Crowley to Anchor Sunday Talk Show on CNN
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Ending a chain of changes that started with Lou Dobbs’s abrupt exit nearly three months ago, CNN on Sunday named Candy Crowley the new anchor of the political interview program “State of the Union.” Starting on Feb. 7, she will succeed John King, who is taking over Mr. Dobbs’s former time slot, weekdays at 7 p.m., later this month.
- Posted Jan 29, 2010
- Hotel Bombing Has Journalists Mourning
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For at least a decade, the Al Hamra -- an inelegant, 10-story wedge of concrete and glass across the Tigris River from the U.S.-dominated Green Zone -- has been the enduring hub of journalism in Iraq.
- Posted Jan 28, 2010
- NBC Gives Free Therapy to Haiti Reporters
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In the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, as NBC News employees return from the disaster zone, they will get the opportunity to relate their experiences to work-sanctioned therapists. “There is an impact on reporters from seeing all these things,” Alexandra Wallace, a senior vice president at NBC News, told The Observer.
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Where Does News Come From?
Who really reports the news that most people get about their communities? What role do new media, blogs and specialty news sites now play? A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism takes a close look at the news ecosystem. Full Story.
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