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Most members of the National Election Pool agreed the country shouldn't toss the exit-polling baby out with the bath water, even though the National Election Pool disseminated some misleading data [...]

Hold on. There's still one convention to go. Republicans this time, in New York. Again more journalists than delegates. Newspaper reporters filing stories about the insipid, tasteless, unnecessary repeats the [...]

Cable news was the domain of Democratic National Convention coverage and CNN was the master for the first time in nearly three years. According to data from Nielsen Media Research, [...]

'Outfoxed: The Inside Story of America's Fourth Television Network'' is the title of a book I wrote about 14 years ago that told the story of the birth of the [...]

Like American troops during the war in Iraq, the Democratic candidates will be accompanied by 'embedded'' video journalists for MSNBC, MSNBC.com and NBC News, who will cover them day in [...]

With unemployment high and the stock market all too uncertain, Americans are paying more attention to financial issues these days-and local TV news is working to cater to their needs. [...]

While most local TV stations usually have access to one or more affiliate feed services, many are just discovering another option, The NewsMarket. The online video service, which offers downloadable [...]

When it comes to organizations and preparedness for war, the easy stuff is largely done. After months in hurry-up-and-wait mode, the networks have booked satellite time and purchased myriad satellite [...]

``On the evening news shows, journalists now get six times as much airtime as candidates get when they are doing election news. Free airtime is the only way candidates [can] [...]

Good luck to Don Hewitt in building support for his noble and timely proposal to merge the three network nightly newscasts. But as long as we're dreaming, why not really [...]

This many weeks later, with the Taliban in retreat in Afghanistan, smoke still rises from the devastation where the World Trade Center stood. Where thousands died, the fire still lives. [...]

Is it too early for a ``funny'' story about the World Trade Center disaster? Good God in heaven, yes. It will always be too early. Over at the Fox News [...]

The prime-time lineup has returned to normal, but the newsmagazines have not. Their lineups still revolve around the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. Newsmagazine executives know that [...]

KSPR-TV adds evening newscast ABC affiliate KSPR-TV, Springfield, Mo., launches a 6:30 p.m. newscast today that is the only newscast in that time slot in the market. The newscast will [...]

Reality pays off for WSBT The ratings and demos are in for diary markets, and that means the numbers are in for South Bend, Ind., which was struck with reality-television [...]

Salter wins suit vs. KENS After two days of deliberation, a San Antonio jury on Sept. 27 awarded $750,000 to Bob Salter, a reporter at CBS affiliate KENS-TV, San Antonio, [...]

A year-old company based in Irvine, Calif., believes it has a solution for capturing, logging and distributing satellite-delivered newsfeeds from news sources to local television stations. 'Our value proposition is [...]

Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News, told Fox affiliates here on Jan. 23 that NBC and CNN feared Fox News, and he pointed to a joint news feed [...]

KOMO-TV in Seattle is airing all of its newscasts in high-definition TV and crossing technological hurdles as it encounters them. The station, which last week began simulcasting its newscasts on [...]

NEW YORK - News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch has shaken the foundation of the cable industry. His bold power play, a one-time offer to pay cable operators between $10 and [...]

EASON JORDAN: president of news gathering at CNN. After an earthquake in Colombia last month, Reuters Television and the Associated Press Television News raced to get pictures to network news [...]

In Minneapolis, he's Jesse ``The Story'' Ventura. TV stations are already considering plans for live coverage of such routine governmental events as inaugurations, budget messages and state-of-the-state addresses now that [...]

LONDON - The BBC last week launched its 24-hour news channel to a British audience. But will anyone be watching it? The publicly funded corporation is sinking an estimated $17.6 [...]

ABC News, trailing NBC News in the morning and in the evening, is taking on its rival in cyberspace. ABCNEWS.com is scheduled to go online later this month, offering 24-hour [...]

LOS ANGELES - Rainbow Programming, the company that started the first 24-hour regional news service in Long Island, N.Y., now wants to create a cable version of a local newspaper, [...]