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  • August 2008
    • Even in Tight Election, Media Struggle to Retain Audience

      Even in Tight Election, Media Struggle to Retain Audience

      (Newser) - Even as the 2008 election attracts more voter interest than it has in decades, media efforts to translate that into financial success have had mixed results, reports the New York Times. While cable news has enjoyed an uptick—and websites are setting record for online video—viewership for mainstream news media has been flatlining or worse. More »

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      election 2008   presidential campaign   cable TV   web traffic   ad revenue   TV ratings   American media   network news

    • Cable Dominates News by Blowing Up Stories

      Cable Dominates News by Blowing Up Stories

      (Newser) - Twenty-four-hour cable networks set the news agenda by turning stories "from brushfire to raging conflagration," Paul Farhi writes in the American Journalism Review. Particularly during presidential campaigns, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC pull stories from newspapers and web sites and make them hot by running them day and night. But telling this to print reporters sets off instant debate. More »

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      Wall Street Journal   journalism   New York Times   news   Fox News   CNN   MSNBC   Washington Post   television news   network news   print journalism

  • July 2008
  • June 2008
    • Minutes Dwindle for Networks' War Coverage

      Minutes Dwindle for Networks' War Coverage

      (Newser) - Middle East correspondents are struggling to get stories on the nightly news as TV networks scale back war coverage, the New York Times reports. With violence in Iraq declining and the US public tiring of an open-ended conflict, network execs have focused on hot topics like the contentious presidential primaries. Keeping, and securing, bureaus in violent areas is also quite costly. More »

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      Iraq war   business   NBC   CBS   ABC   Afghanistan war   media coverage   network news   reporting

    • Cable Guys Won't Likely Fill Russert's Seat

      Cable Guys Won't Likely Fill Russert's Seat

      (Newser) - Early word on Tim Russert's Meet the Press successor focused on in-house candidates, like Chris Matthews, David Gregory, or Joe Scarborough. But one insider now tells Variety that there’s “no way” a cable personality will land the gig. NBC’s broadcast division would rather stay “pristine”—free from the punditry that hovers around MSNBC. More »

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      cable TV   Tim Russert   MSNBC   Meet the Press   NBC News   pundits   Chris Matthews   network news   Joe Scarborough

  • May 2008
    • Anchors (Except for Katie) Just Don't Get It

      Anchors (Except for Katie) Just Don't Get It

      (Newser) - Katie Couric thinks Scott McClellan has a point with his criticism of the media in the lead-up to the war, but Charlie Gibson and Brian Williams beg to differ—and that's a disgrace, writes Glenn Greenwald in Salon. During a get-together of network anchors, the "painfully empty-headed Gibson" and the "mindlessly establishment-defending" Williams said the media offered plenty of skepticism, but Greenwald counters that today's celebrity journalists simply don't understand their own profession. More »

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      Iraq war   Katie Couric   Scott McClellan   Brian Williams   network news   Charles Gibson

    • Networks Will Partner For Cancer Telethon

      Networks Will Partner For Cancer Telethon

      (Newser) - ABC, CBS and NBC have decided to work together to fight cancer, the New York Times reports. Each network's lead news anchor will appear on a Sept. 5 telethon broadcast on all three channels simultaneously. The principles—CBS's Katie Couric, NBC's Brian Williams and ABC's Charlie Gibson—have all lost immediate relatives to cancer. More »

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      cancer   NBC   CBS   cancer research   ABC   Katie Couric   Brian Williams   television news   network news   Charles Gibson

  • April 2008

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