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The article explains how the roster for the 15 next generation of television journalists in the U.S. was finalized. Coming up with the list is reportedly a near-impossible task as well as rewarding since it involves a lot of conversations with people with an eye for star potentials. "TelevisionWeek" talked to network talent executives, agents and viewers who are noted to be news junkies. Among those short-listed were Joel Brown of CBS Newspath, CNBC reporter Rebecca Jarvis, Scott Goldberg, Kare-TV Reporter, and Bianna Golodryga, ABC News correspondent.

Focuses on the impact of hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jean on television broadcasting in Florida. Damage caused on the facility of Scripps-owned NBC station WPTV in West Palm Beach; Effect of the hurricane on lost advertisement revenue; Efforts of television reporters in covering the disasters; Relevance of satellite technology to the coverage of the storms.

The article features ABC News correspondent Bill Blakemore who spearheads the television (TV) network's coverage of global warming. He first became interested in global warming after hearing lectures in the late 1960s at the University of Beirut in Lebanon on the subject of the extinction of certain species. Blakemore with producer/photographer Clayton Sandell, travels the globe from the tropics to the polar regions to report on the impacts and dangers of climate change, as well as possible solutions.

The article reports that television news directors and journalists will be carefully choosing the perfect programs for the electronic journalism awards. The awards tend to be something that stations use as a way to motivate when perhaps they are not winning in the ratings, according to Susan Schuler of Raycom Media. Some observers believe that, as the lines between broadcast television and online video blur, traditional broadcast television (TV) awards organizations will have to recognize online journalism.

The article focuses on "Flashpoint," a television special hosted by "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric regarding the statistics of the war in Iraq. It uses the experience of nearly killed CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier to tell the story of the Iraqi war. A car bomb in Iraq that nearly killed Dozier has killed CBS News cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan.

The article highlights the results of the 2006 Radio-Television News Directors Association/Ball State University study on diversity in the newsroom. There have been some slight changes in the annual survey numbers, which show incremental improvements in some minority categories. The percentage of minorities working in television news last year was the second-highest ever recorded in the survey (20.4 percent); the highest level was 24.6 percent in 2001.

The article reports on the selection of René Syler, news anchor for "The Early Show," of CBS to emcee the 2006 Salute to Excellence Awards at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention. For Syler, a recipient of 2004 Gracie Allen Award for Individual Achievement in the National Best Anchor category for her breast cancer series, attending the convention and hosting the awards presentation is a way of giving back to a group that has nurtured her career for many years.

The article presents an interview with Al Roker, television program host of NBC and Food Network. When asked about his thoughts on the National Association of Black Journalists Convention and its Hall of Fame induction, he says that it is important to support the event and he is honored to host the event. Roker said that some of his television news heroes at Jim Vance, Sue Simmons, Bob Teague and Bill McCreary. Roker offers his views on how television news departments promote diversity.

The article reports that U.S. news anchor Katie Couric is prepared to be a correspondent of CBS in Iraq. Couric said she would not want to go to an increasingly violent Iraq. Those comments came soon after a Baghdad bomb attack that critically injured a television correspondent and killed a cameraman and sound man.

Reports on the difficulties and dangers faced by television journalists covering Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans, Louisiana in August 2005. Frustrations of Anderson Cooper from CNN on politicians; Views of Marcy McGinnis, senior vice president of news coverage for CBS News, on the issue of security; Information on the law enforcement in the city during the disaster.

Focuses of the television documentary projects left behind by the late television news journalist Peter Jennings in 2005. Reaction of television network ABC regarding his death; Deal signed by Jennings with the network; Information on the documentaries. INSET: COLLEAGUES, FRIENDS AND PUBLIC EXPRESS ESTEEM FORNEWSMAN.

Focuses on television broadcasts of environmental issues and events in the U.S. Efforts of Belo to employ environmental reporters; Awards received by several television stations for coverage of environmental issues and events.

Discusses the traits that news directors are looking for in television newsroom applicants in the U.S. Overview of traits expected by news managers from graduates; Factor that hinder students to enter the broadcasting business; Salary of television reporters and producers.

Reports on the appointment of former Chicago Bears football team coach Mike Ditka as on-air analyst on the ESPN cable channel in 2004. Purpose of hiring Ditka; Information on a show that will be hosted by Ditka; Reason behind his decision to move to cable TV; Career background of Ditka.

Provides information on a program initiated by Linda Mason, vice president for public affairs of CBN News, to develop minority producers and correspondents in the U.S. Factor that motivated Mason to initiate such program; Qualifications of interested applicants for the program; Advantage of the program.

Reports on the news broadcasting approach adopted by the network news divisions of several television networks based in Iraq in April 2004. Situation faced by U.S. journalists in Iraq, according to American Broadcasting Co. News correspondent David Wright; Television networks that agreed to share video footages of the events happening in Iraq; Protective measures being taken by the journalists in Iraq.

Features U.S. television reporters who had traveled to China to report on severe acute respiratory syndrome. ABC News correspondent Josh Gerstein; CBS New correspondent Barry Petersen; NBC News correspondent Ned Colt.

Offers information on the experiences of a female television reporter in covering the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Materials and equipment she had during the war coverage; Background on how they were able to cover the news about the war; Details of an interview with her by the television show '20/20.'

The article features television journalist Dan Rather whose program "Dan Rather Reports" on HDNet was selected as one of the finalists in the 2008 Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) Awards for Reporting on the Environment. Rather, a former CBS anchorman, comments on the recognition given to the program and commends Mark Cuban, the owner of HDNet for supporting his program. Rather offers his views about environmental journalism. To Rather, environmental stories are an important brand of investigative journalism.

The article relates how investigative reporter Sidharth Pandey came up with the special television (TV) news report "Mined to Death," an investigation into three sites being illegally mined in India. Pandey who works for New Delhi, India's NDTV 24x7 was on his way to another assignment when his driver mentioned that local contractors were mining in New Delhi at night. Pandey and his cameraman, Deepak Verma, decided to travel to the Kalesar National Forest in Haryana to find the illegal mining operation.

The article relates how television (TV) broadcasters and reporters in the U.S. who work on stories about the environment cope with the challenges inherent in their work. Joel Grover, investigative reporter at KNBC-TV, shares that he always go to the experts in the are he is investigating, people who don't have a vested interest in the outcome. Tim Wheeler, environmental reporter for "The Baltimore Sun," emphasizes that it is important for reporters to distinguish the experts from spinmeisters.

The article relates how NBC News correspondent Kerry Sanders and his team was able to produce a television (TV) news report on global warming. Sanders' "Ice Melt From the North Pole," is one of three finalists for the Society of Environmental Journalists Award for Reporting on the Environment in the TV category. To get the story, Sanders and his cameraman, Dmitri Solvyov, traveled from Miami, Florida to New York and then to Helsinki, Finland, and finally to Murmansk, Russia. The news crew traveled from Murmansk to the North Pole with Quark Expeditions.

The article focuses on KVUE-TV, a TV station and ABC affiliate owned by Belo Corp. in Austin, Texas. It describes the competition posed by the live music scene in Texas on the TV station. Newscast from KVUE has not lost a ratings race in a major ratings period in the last year and a half. For four years in a row, KVUE also has won the Murrow regional award for overall excellence in a small market. All of the station's anchors are journalists such as lead anchors Tyler Sieswerda and Christine Haas.

The article focuses on "The Blind Trumpeter," a TV report by "ABC News" correspondent Erin Hayes on Patrick Henry Hughes, a disabled University of Louisville student who played trumpet in the school's marching band. Hayes discovered the deep bond between Hughes and his father, who has structured his life around his son's needs, working the overnight shift at UPS so he can go to the university with his son. Hayes revealed that the most challenging aspect of capturing Hughes' story was to resist the urge to impose structure on the story.

The article focuses on "BBC World News America" anchor Matt Frei. The German-born 43-year-old has covered Asia for the BBC, as well as the first Persian Gulf war. His most recent foreign posting, in Washington, began in 2003. Frei's favorite American newscast is ABC's "World News With Charles Gibson."

An interview with Shepard Smith, news anchor of Fox News Channel's "Fox Report," is presented. Smith states the gadgets or gizmos that he owns, uses or carries on a regular basis. He discusses his next career goal as a news anchor. He also offers career advice for news anchor Dan Rather who sued his former bosses at CBS and Viacom.

The article reports that sports television network ESPN is receiving the Diversity Champion Award at the annual Kaitz Dinner September 2007. The award recognizes the network's work both behind the scenes and on-air in diversity. According to Ed Durso, executive vice president for administration and who is responsible for diversity programs at ESPN, diversity has been a key component of their mission and values for many years. That includes how issues of race are treated on-air by the sports journalists.

The article announces that veteran television journalist Anderson Cooper has been named recipient of the Mickey Leland Humanitarian Achievement Award, to be presented by the National Association for Multiethnicity in Communications in 2007.

The article reports that Robin Roberts, co-anchor of the show "Good Morning America," underwent a successful surgery for breast cancer, according to Bridgette Maney, spokeswoman for the ABC News morning show. It states that over 40, 000 e-mails were received and thousand more viewers were heard from on the message boards following Roberts' announcement of her diagnosis.

The article reports on the altercation between Cable News Network (CNN) and Fox News Channel. The TelevisionWeek's January 29, 2007 issue reveals a Fox News advertisement (ad) that depicts a rear-view photograph of a man whose gray hair bears a resemblance to that of CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. Its headline shouts, Meet the Paris Hilton of Television News and the copy below points out that he gets beat in the ratings every night. The ad continues with a shot of Fox anchor Greta Van Susteren, who is rendering the beating.

The article highlights a dinner event entitled An Evening With Ted Koppel held by the Museum of Television & Radio in Beverly Hills, California on September 2006 which featured a question-and-answer session conducted by museum president Pat Mitchell. Dinner speakers included Henry Winkler, Harry Shearer and Larry King, all of whom managed to give jokes directed at Koppel, the iconically-serious newsman.

The author reflects on the departure of TV news anchor Dan Rather from CBS News in the U.S. as of June 2006. One wonders what he took with him when he left his position, in terms of traditions and values and integrity that he so long personified within the company. He asserts that the way CBS News personnel let CBS corporate executives hound Rather into leaving is so shameful.

The article profiles David Gregory, chief White House correspondent for NBC News as of June 2006. When he started out as a paid summer intern for KGUN-TV in Tucson, Arizona, Gregory was given every rotten job they could think of, says Ray Depa, news director at KGUN-TV. Fast-forward, Gregory has been with NBC News for more than 10 years. He has been chief White House correspondent six years. Gregory has covered nearly every major story of the past decade.

The author reflects on the impact of the departure of TV news anchor Dan Rather from CBS News before the term of his contract, on the news business in the U.S. as of 2006. Rather in his bitter farewell statement said he was leaving CBS because he was not given the time to produce the kind of special reports on which he had built his career.

The article features former WNBC reporter Frank Field and his role in the promotion of the medical research genre. Field remembers having free rein to probe in-depth the work being done by the likes of pioneering heart surgeon Michael DeBakey and Charles Kelman. Despite decades of contributions to health and science reporting, Field is still far better known among New Yorkers as the station's longtime weatherman.

The article reports on the First Amendment Service Award to be received by retired television journalist Bill Wheatley from the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation during its awards dinner to be held in March 2006 in Washington. Wheatley believes that journalists can protect the First Amendment by winning the trust of viewers. He has served as executive producer of the television program "NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw" from 1985 to 1990. Barbara Cochran, president of the Radio-Television News Directors Association, expresses her admiration for the journalist.

The article comments on the decision of CBS News to hire a single anchorperson to replace Dan Rather. It discusses the benefits of the move of CBS. It provides an overview of dual-anchor teams that have had long-term success on national broadcast evening newscast.

The article focuses on the opinion of television news people on news awards in the U.S. Rick Gevers, a talent agent and former news director, believes that national awards impress potential bosses. Craig Franklin, a photographer to KPIX-TV, emphasizes that journalists should aim to tell a good story and not to win an award. Some television stations do not promote heavily their awards, believing that the audience could not care less.

The article focuses on the reaction of Ruth Friendly, wife of CBS newsman Fred, to the portrayal of director and co-writer of the screenplay George Clooney as her late husband in the film "Good Night and Good Luck." Fred resigned from CBS after the network preferred to air a repeat of a program rather than live coverage of the hearings on the role of the U.S. in Vietnam War. Clooney yielded to Friendly when she said that her husband never smoked. The family of Fred appreciate Clooney's portrayal of the newsman.

The article reports on the effect of culture wars on news business. At this nasty time in our history known as the culture wars, the news business has become a favorite target because it is the vehicle transmitting everything everyone dislikes, giving rise to panels, forums, interchanges, scholarly discussions and learned dissertations, primarily devoted to the principle that the people in news are wrong and they are right, that the news people must do something to improve their general reputation.

The article reports on the decision of Young Broadcasting to implement the one-man video journalist scheme at its ABC affiliate WKRN-TV in Nashville, Tennessee and independent KRON-TV in San Francisco, California. The decision is in relation to an attempt to expand news coverage and compete in a world where the business of local TV stations is threatened from every direction by new technologies.

Expresses an opinion on the vital role of the television news media in monitoring the social, political and business stories following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Comments on the passion that some reporters have shown in covering Katrina's devastation; Views on the level of independence demonstrated by many television journalists during the disaster; Factors that separate the mainstream media from bloggers.

Presents views on the response of television journalists on the devastation and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Level of the public's trust on television according to a public opinion surveys conducted by Reuters; Information on the efforts of WLOX-TV of Liberty Corp. in Biloxi, Mississippi; Overview of a phone conversation between Liberty vice president Ron Loewen and WLOX general manager Leon Long.

Recalls an experience meeting television newscaster Peter Jennings. Description of the personality of Jennings; Information on his career; Details of his relationship with other figures in the newscasting industry.

Profiles Jorge Ramos, co-anchor of the television program "Noticiero Univision." Professional background; Information on how Ramos gained professional stature; Family background.

Highlights the award given to TV host Regis Philbin for setting the Guinness world record for most hours on camera in August 2004. Total number of hours spent by Philbin on television; Acceptance speech of the host.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in the August 2004 issue of the periodical "Television Week." "HBO Sets Record for Emmy Noms" which focused on the nominees for the Emmy Awards; Reaction to the comments of Tom Shale about the role of journalists in television broadcasting.

Discusses the use of humor in promotions. Description of a spot made by KOMO-TV to introduce Mike Dardis, co-anchor of the "Morning News," to Seattle, Washington viewers; Promotions made by KMID-TV in the Midland International Airport in Texas.

Relates the experiences of a television journalist in making a documentary about Saddam Hussein's brutality entitled "Remembering Saddam." Experience in locating people who suffered under Saddam and his sons; Role of reporter Marvin Zindler in getting medical help for the victims of Saddam; Reaction of a viewer upon seeing an excerpt of "Remembering Saddam," in the news.

Praises the legacy of Don Hewitt in the news television broadcasting in the U.S. Production of Hewitt for the "Douglas Edwards With the News"; Experiment of Hewitt on technology to improve the delivery of news; Historic events covered by the news team of Hewitt.