Compiled by TV Week Because we aggregate news, TVWeek is your SINGLE most complete source on Tuesday night’s bombshell that Paula Abdul is leaving "American Idol." Here goes: Paula broke the news in a series of Tweets she Twittered Tuesday night,…
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has issued a special pardon to two detained Current TV journalists, according to press reports citing the official North Korean News Agency . Current TV reporters Euna Lee and Laura Ling had been found guilty of entering…
Welcome to the first issue of NewsPro, a publication devoted to the needs and interests of news professionals. Whatever your capacity in the field of journalism, our goal is to tell you things you need to know — and to…
By Daisy Whitney In the modern news world, the idea that the respected news professionals at ABC’s “Nightline” are involved with a program with the unlikely name of “Twittercast” seems perfectly normal. But it would have sounded absurd even just…
By Hillary Atkin New. Experimental. Here to Stay? That would be the tease for the rapidly spreading practice of fiercely competitive television stations joining to pool their resources as a way to reduce costs and expand coverage. The pooling of…
CBS News’ chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan got her journalism start working for local papers in Durban, South Africa, and later spent several years as a freelancer for numerous TV outlets, doing everything from assignment editing to reporting from…
By Elizabeth Jensen When WTVJ-TV’s Kelly Craig was laid off in June after nearly two decades as a reigning Miami anchor she was in good company. Across the country, once sacrosanct stars are finding their names on layoff lists or…
By Elizabeth Jensen When the Society of Professional Journalists was founded as a journalistic fraternity at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., in 1909, few could have imagined the upheavals that now roil the profession. But as it celebrates its 100th…
By Elizabeth Jensen He never worked as a professional journalist, but Terry Harper, the executive director of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, knew how to write laugh-out-loud prose that could also bring a reader…