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Goal: Seamless News Toss to ‘Evening’
New Data Adopted for Upfronts
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Old Media Horses Try New Tricks
TV Vets Face Startup Realities in Next Phase of Careers
Peabody Awards: Serious News
Peabody Awards Laud Commitment to Important Stories as They Honor Journalism That Can Make a Difference
VideoJug Bottles One-Stop Shopping
Schankowitz Builds Online Repository of Self-Help Shorts
CBC: Why We Fight
The producers list for “Why We Fight,” the Peabody-winning documentary on the United States military-industrial complex, runs to more than a dozen organizations, from the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. to the United Kingdom’s BBC, Estonia’s ETV and numerous European broadcasters. Conspicuously…
IFC: Beyond Borders: Personal Stories From a Small Planet
In IFC’s documentary short series “Beyond Borders: Personal Stories From a Small Planet,” 10-year-old Mohamed Sidibay talks about how he escaped life as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. In the film he’s a fourth-grader who likes to play soccer,…
Ad Buyers on NBC: Wait ‘Til Next Year
Exec Shift Should Not Affect This Upfront
Magic Lantern Productions, Channel 4: Fourdocs Web Site
Documentaries are enjoying a renaissance these days, at least on cable and in theatrical release, but that wasn’t the case a few years back in Great Britain when the concept of the Web site FourDocs (www.channel4.com/fourdocs) was formed. There was…