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- Posted May 08, 2008
- Long-Troubled TV Guide for Sale Again
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Days after getting new owners and new editors, the long-troubled TV Guide is back on the block. Another sale would be the fourth change in control during the last decade for TV Guide, which has long been trying to forge a new identity as an entertainment magazine, while moving away from what was once its primary mission, television listings. New technology and changing viewing habits have made keeping up with listings more difficult and irrelevant.
- Posted May 07, 2008
- Walters Airs a Life of Glass Ceilings, Romances
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It's hard to imagine now, with a dozen photographers snapping away and hundreds of people lined up at a Broadway book signing, that Barbara Walters once considered herself a flat-out failure. "I would sit in the makeup room and cry," she says, recalling her unhappy stint as co-anchor of ABC's evening newscast. "I thought they might ask me to resign."
- Media Ethics Since the Jayson Blair Bombshell
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In the five years since the Blair scandal, all kinds of media organizations have been working harder to protect themselves from a similar situation. Ken Auletta told Jon Friedman: "I suspect that serious felons like Blair have been deterred. But cheating and cutting corners has not been. Declining circulation, falling advertising revenues, and the swooning stock value of traditional news organizations... prompts slashed newsroom budgets. This leaves fewer editors and fact checkers to police newsrooms."
- Posted May 06, 2008
- TV Reporter Robbed While Covering Story
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NBC11 reporter Cheryl Hurd became a part of the news story she was assigned to cover after her laptop computer was stolen in a smash-and-grab. Hurd was doing a story in San Francisco's Western Addition about smash-and-grab robberies and was sitting inside an NBC11 news van when someone opened the door and grabbed the computer off her lap.
- Despite Poor Ratings, Viewers Still Like Couric
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Viewers aren't pushing for Katie Couric to leave the CBS anchor chair, but if she did, they would like to see her back on her former turf -- a morning news show such as NBC's Today, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. Of 1,016 adults polled by phone April 18-20, 46 percent said Couric shouldn't be replaced. One quarter of respondents said she should be replaced. CBS declined comment on the poll results.
- MSNBC, N.Y. Times Team Up for New Show
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The Times and MSNBC are joining forces for a new cable show. Yesterday was the debut of The New York Times Special Primary Edition, a new political show hosted by John Harwood where Times-journos will handicap the election. From a Times memo, it appers these shows will appear as specials--that is, they won't run every week, but whenever MSNBC and the paper choose to do it.
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Diverse Newsrooms Contribute to Public Trust of Press
It's necessary to have a diverse news staff that reflects -- at a minimum -- the community or area on which it reports. Knowing what news stories to cover and where to find them is a critical component in the process of journalism, along with the ability to report those stories accurately and fairly. Read the full article at: AmericanPressInstitute.org.
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