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- Posted Nov 19, 2009
- Jon Stewart: 'From Optional to Indispensable'
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NBC's Brian Williams writes: "In just the span of a short few years, Jon Stewart has gone from optional to indispensable... On occasion, when we’ve been on the cusp of doing something completely inane on NBC Nightly News, I will gently suggest to my colleagues that we simply courier the tape over to Jon’s office, to spare the Daily Show interns the time and trouble of logging our broadcast that night."
- Posted Nov 18, 2009
- Morning Joe Steadily Loses Steam
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From Sept. 1 through Nov. 13, according to The Observer’s analysis of Nielsen numbers, Morning Joe has averaged 357,000 total viewers and 124,000 in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic—down 35 percent and 43 percent, respectively, from the same time period last year.
- Layoffs Begin at The Associated Press
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Layoffs began yesterday at The Associated Press, according to employees there, as the company follows through on a commitment made a year ago to lower its payroll costs by 10 percent by the end of 2009. Much of the reduction was achieved through voluntary buyouts and attrition brought about by a hiring freeze, so it is not clear how far The A.P. is from its target, or how many people are being dismissed.
- Posted Nov 17, 2009
- Palin Calls Newsweek Cover Photo 'Sexist'
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Sarah Palin blasted Newsweek on her Facebook page because the news magazine used a photo she took for Runner's World as this week's cover. She wrote that the "out-of-context Newsweek approach is sexist and oh-so-expected by now." Editor Jon Meacham responded in an email to POLITICO: "We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do."
- Study Points to Healthy Newspaper Readership
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A new study from Scarborough Research finds that 74 percent of adults -- nearly 171 million -- in the United States read a newspaper in print or online during the past week. This number counters the notion that newspapers no longer impact consumers. The data is the latest analysis of Scarborough Integrated Newspaper Audience (INA) report that measures the audience of the newspaper industry.
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- Nov. 19 Cleveland, OH -- SPJ Cleveland Pro Chapter Entrepreneurial Journalism in the Digital Age
- Nov. 30 Cleveland, OH -- Press Club of Cleveland The Write Stuff with Wylie and Warner
- Dec. 5 Chesterfield, MO -- Press Club of Metropolitan St. Louis Julius Hunter: TV One-On-One
- Dec. 5-6 Rocville, MD -- Television News Center Reporter Training
- Dec. 12 Portland, OR -- Society of Professional Journalists Narrative Writing Workshop
- Dec. 19 Rockville, MD -- Television News Center Newscast Producer/Writer Training
- Jan. 5-8 Phoenix, AZ -- Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism Business Professors' Seminar
- Feb. 12-14 San Francisco, CA -- San Francisco Writers Conference Building Bridges to Better Tomorrows
- March 13-16 Los Angeles, CA -- Education Writers Association 2010 Education Research and Statistics Bootcamp
- April 22-25 Chicago, IL -- Association of Health Care Journalists Health Journalism 2010
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