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Here’s a Pedigree: Series with Steven Spielberg and Peter Chernin Behind It, and with ‘Star Trek’ and ’24’ Veteran Brannon Braga Onboard as Showrunner, Reportedly Gets Order

Fox pre-historic drama "Terra Nova" has "unofficially" been given a 13-episode order and tapped "Star Trek" producer Brannon Braga as executive producer and showrunner, Deadline.com reports.  Braga is joining several other executive producers, including Craig Silverstein, Kelly Marcel, Aaron Kaplan,…

Larry King May Not Go Through With 7th Divorce

Larry King is considering backing away from his seventh divorce, People.com reports.  "There’s a 50-50 chance this divorce is not happening," Dennis Wasser, King’s attorney, said. "His focus is on the best interest of his children. It’s not clear to…

New York Magazine’s Popular ‘Approval Matrix’ To Become TV Show

The "Approval Matrix" is one of New York Magazine’s most popular recurring features, a grid that illustrates where cultural tidbits fall on a scale of highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant or despicable. Now Bravo is hoping to tap into some of that…

AMC Freaked Out By ‘Mad Men’ Saying Show Won’t Go Beyond Season Six, Says That’s Not Necessarily So

AMC, of course, freaked out  when Matt Weiner, creator and showrunner of its highly acclaimed drama "Mad Men"–which has won the Emmy for Best Drama two years running–casually mentioned at the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters last…

Poynter to Expand Its ‘Sense-Making’ Initiative

By Jarre Fees The Poynter Institute will use a recent $750,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to expand its Sense-Making program and other initiatives that focus on how the public consumes information, how journalists collect and disseminate news and how…

Demand on the Rise for Health Care Apps

By Debra Kaufman At Apple’s 2009 worldwide developer’s conference, Johnson & Johnson company LifeScan demonstrated an app that lets diabetics upload glucose readings from their blood glucose monitors to their iPhone, send the readings and a message about how they’re…

Web Now ‘Most Essential’ Medium

By Hillary Atkin For the first time, the Internet has squeaked past television as the most essential medium in the lives of Americans. That finding was part of Arbitron Inc. and Edison Research’s recently released “The Infinite Dial 2010: Digital…

Nancy Snyderman: Doctor, Journalist, Perpetual Student

Dr. Nancy Snyderman, NBC News’ chief medical editor since September 2006, attended medical school at the University of Nebraska and did residencies in pediatrics as well as ear, nose and throat surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. Her TV career…

Health Care Journalism: The Quest for Coverage

By Debra Kaufman It’s impossible to talk about the state of health care journalism in the U.S. today without noticing the elephant — and the donkey — in the room: the debate over health care reform that dominated headlines, sound…

Health Care Journalists Look Ahead

By Elizabeth Jensen Attendees at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ 2010 convention in Chicago may be coming to do the usual rounds of catching up with far-flung friends and making business contacts, but first they have to work. Even…