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CBS, PBS Top Business and Financial Emmy Winners

CBS, with four wins, led the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ 7th Annual Emmy Awards for Business & Financial Reporting, presented today at Fordham University in New York. PBS, with two wins, was the other multiple winner. BBC America…

John King Scrambles to Ready a CNN Primetime Show

By Elizabeth Jensen CNN’s John King has only had his own show on the network, the four-hour Sunday morning “State of the Union,” since early this year. But sometime next January, the veteran political reporter is being handed one of…

Neil Cavuto: Fox’s High Priest of Business Journalism

Neil Cavuto has been at Fox News Channel since its beginning in 1996, as anchor and managing editor of business news, and now with the additional title of senior VP of both Fox News and spinoff Fox Business Network. He…

Stations Shift to Talent-Run Teleprompting

By Hillary Atkin Stations following the credo of doing more with less are now moving toward talent-run teleprompters as a cost-cutting measure, either reassigning prompter operators to other news production tasks or cutting them completely. As with any change or…

Columbia Dual Degree Program Put on Hold

 By Allison J. Waldman After 13 years and a plethora of published work by graduates, Columbia University is suspending its dual master’s degree program in Earth and environmental science journalism. The program will not be accepting applications for 2010 —…

Journalism School: Students Still Hear the Call

 By Elizabeth Jensen In the mid-1970s, the movie “All the President’s Men” sent high school students scurrying to journalism school, motivated by the glamorous prospect of bringing down a president. Today, those now middle-aged journalists who are still working in…

Student Perspective: Hungry and Optimistic

 By Lillian R. Mongeau When I tell people that I am a graduate student in journalism I get a funny look. I know what they’re thinking: Why would she be willing to take on huge loans to get a degree…

Student Perspective: Telling the Untold Stories

By Armand Emamdjomeh When I came to journalism school, it was because, inspired by my experience in international disaster relief and development, I wanted to use storytelling to bring awareness of overlooked problems domestically and internationally. All of that is…

Politico Blazes Trail in New Journalism

By Hillary Atkin Journalists working in traditional media have had to adapt to the changing times, yet few have done so as successfully as former Washington Post reporters John Harris and Jim VandeHai. The two veteran political reporters left the…

For Smaller Stations, Added Costs Trump Prestige of HD News

By Hillary Atkin Broadcasting local news in high definition is a point of pride and a cornerstone of promotion for nearly all of the major television stations in the nation’s top markets — even as some are still working on…