By Jarre Fees Health officials nationwide went on alert in late March 2009 after a unique flu virus was reported in central Mexico. By early April, the 2009 H1N1 virus had been reported in Texas and California; within weeks it…
Physicians are playing an increasingly important role in television news at both the local and national levels, and experienced particularly high visibility this year during coverage of the aftermath of the earthquakwe in Haiti. NewsPro correspondent Elizabeth Jensen profiles some…
By Elizabeth Jensen The first-place winners of this year’s Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism exposed questions surrounding the safety of generic drugs, documented how industry distorted the science surrounding the plastics compound BPA and uncovered a pattern of…
By Allison J. Waldman Richard Heene and his 6-year-old son, “Balloon Boy” Falcon, weren’t the only Colorado father and son to gain national attention from a news story in 2009. Bernie Lange, anchor at KKCO-TV in Grand Junction, and his…
By Tom Petner There’s good news and bad news to report in the homogenization of local TV news. The good news is who’s getting hired these days in the reporting ranks. And the bad news — well, it’s who’s getting…
Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age TV viewers by now are accustomed to seeing product placement in their favorite shows. But how will they react upon seeing "program placement" in their commercials? On John King’s new early-evening news show on CNN, every commercial…
Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age Conan O’Brien’s move to bring his late-night talents to TBS surprised many TV-watchers Monday, but the decision is just another signal that cable’s business model is increasingly preferable to that of broadcast TV as the economics of…
By Hillary Atkin It was a one-two punch that sent shockwaves through the television news industry — a grim reality check of the human toll that cost-cutting measures are taking in these recessionary times. In early February, CBS News announced…