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Feldman on NATPE Hot Seat

Looking to build bridges in the face of growing divisions within NATPE, members of the executive search committee to find a replacement for Bruce Johansen said Rick Feldman’s diplomatic skills were a primary factor in his selection as the new…

SARS Infects News Planning

Assignments to cities such as Hong Kong or Beijing, once considered exotic and prized, now are largely seen as hazardous duty, just like assignments to war zones. That means an assignment that takes a journalist to or keeps a journalist…

A rosy, hawk’s-eye view of war

“What did you report in the war, Daddy?” “Why, I reported what a great country this is, sweetie pie. I reported what fine men and women we have serving in our armed forces, how Saddam Hussein was a monster who…

The Little Picture: Speeding Up War Coverage

Less is more. That’s the lesson news organizations ought to be taking away from covering the war in Iraq. What happened there was nothing less than a bold step forward in immediacy-even if it was also a calculated step backward…

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‘Maury’ Assists in the Arrest of Suspected Batterer A recent episode of syndicated talk show Maury led to the capture of an accused batterer named Reggie McNeil on Friday, a Maury spokesman said. A segment on the Universal Domestic TV…

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Gibbons ‘Extra’ Contract Up This Summer Leeza Gibbons, the host and producer of Telepictures’ newsmagazine strip Extra who appeared primarily during sweeps this season, will not anchor the May sweep. In fact, sources speculated that Ms. Gibbons may not be…

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Brokaw Lands Exclusive President Bush Interview Tom Brokaw has scored the first exclusive TV interview with President Bush since the start of the war in Iraq. The NBC Nightly News anchor is to spend Thursday, April 24, with the president,…

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‘7th Heaven’ Rates High With Teens 7th Heaven ranked No. 2 in its 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. (ET) time slot last night in adults 18 to 34, with a 2.9 rating and a 9 share, behind only Fox’s American…

Summit to Tackle ‘Upfront Dialog’

When hundreds of media buyers, planners and executives convene at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York May 8 the No. 1 question on everyone’s mind will be just how this year’s upfront ad markets will break.Presented by TelevisionWeek and…

Guest Commentary: CNN’s Sad Confession

Here’s a Washington Post headline I never expected to see: “CNN Executive Defends Silence on Known Iraqi Atrocities.”I read CNN’s defense, as I guess most professional journalists did, and I thought about it and tried to put myself in CNN’s…