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NABJ: Bridging the Job Gap

By Allison J. Waldman In these difficult economic times, as newspapers continue to shutter, TV advertising sales lag and newsrooms demand more from ever-smaller staffs, this year’s National Association of Black Journalists’ convention and career fair could prove one of…

NABJ: Economy’s Cuts Felt Deeply by Minorities

By Allison J. Waldman The main objective of the 2009 National Association of Black Journalists conference, being held this month in Tampa, Fla., is to help members reinvent themselves professionally, either by expanding their skills to encompass new forms of…

NABJ: Asian American Journalists Share the Goal

By Dinah Eng The Asian American Journalists Association, one of NABJ’s partners in the Unity: Journalists of Color strategic alliance, will also be exploring ways to reinvent the business of journalism and helping its members make new career choices at…

Are Zucker’s Critics, Especially Journalists, Fair?

Variety columnist Brian Lowry writes about the changes NBC continues to go through. He notes that NBCU CEO Jeff Zucker is clearly innovative and, for a long time now, has been "willing to explore new ways of doing business." Zucker has…

Check Out This Take on ‘Jon & Kate’: The Obsession with Them is a Positive Media Development

Baltimore Sun TV Critic David Zurawik has a different take on the ‘Jon & Kate’ phenom. In his latest column he says that "One of the pleasures some viewers get in writing and talking about the Gosselins is connected to…

WGA to Represent CBS Internet Writers

The Writers Guild of America West said Friday that they have gained jurisdiction over 15 Internet writers employed at CBS studios, according to Daily Variety. The writers voted unanimously to be represented by the WGA West. "This is good news…

Consumers Substituting Online TV for Cable, According to Pew Research

Almost one-fifth of Internet users watch video online almost every day, women are catching up to men in terms of online video usage and more and more recession-conscious Americans are using the Web as a cable TV substitute, Mediaweek reports. Citing a report issued Wednesday…

B&C, Multichannel News Back on the Sales Block

Reed Business Information has put a number of magazines, including B&C and Multichannel News, back on the sales block, Folio reports. Reed also announced that REI U.S. CEO Tad Smith has resigned, Folio said. The acting CEO will be John…

Major Cable Operators Have More Than Doubled the Number of Subscribers Who Take Their Triple Play of Video, Internet and Phone

The nation’s three biggest cable operators, Comcast, Time Warner and Cox, more than doubled the number of subscribers who take what is commonly known as the Triple Play: Video, Phone and Internet services from 2007 to 2008, B&C reports. In…

The Perils of Live Blogging the TV Critics Tour—on an iPhone

TVWeek’s own Chuck Ross gets flummoxed at the TV Critics Association’s summer press tour by a screaming baby,  modern technology, tough competition and Joan Rivers, in his latest must-read blog entry. (Gawd, this part is so embarrassing): —Chuck Ross