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AFTER A MUCH delayed launch, Al Jazeera's controversial English channel finally hit our screens last November, making it the Middle East's media story of the year. Sold to the world [...]

Mongolian News Channel (MNC TV) is the latest HD news broadcaster in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Launched in April 2012, MNC TV station transmits 24/7 unbiased local and international news. The program [...]

How short can a newscast be?*a WWJ-TV in Detroit launched a two-and-a-half minute newscast in January, which leads into repeats of the CBS network show 'Two and a Half Men.' [...]

Editor's note: Part I of this story is available on the Broadcast Engineering Web site. Call it 'video journalism,' 'backpack journalism' or 'multimedia journalism.' Whatever the name, the concept is [...]

Byline: Simon Dumenco A kidnapper-rapist sicko has me thinking lately about the literal value of news. Yeah, I'm talking about the shocking story of Phillip Garrido, the California nutcase who [...]

ICIS news, ICIS Chemical Business's sister real-time news service, has a new daily video reporting service, ICIS news TV. The short, easy-to-watch shows are packed with the latest developments in [...]

ICIS news, ICIS Chemical Business's sister real-time news service, has a new daily video reporting service, ICIS news TV. The short, easy-to-watch shows are packed with the latest developments in [...]

By Michael Malone News-hungry Miss. capital a 'jewel' Jackson may be the No. 90 DMA, but general managers here say it plays larger than that number would indicate. Local news [...]

Beginning May 11, four major Chicago television stations will begin sharing video crews for their newscasts. Depending on one's view, it could be a smart, highly effective money-saving measure in [...]

By Marisa Guthrie Fox News Channel star likes the man but takes issue with his policies March 2009 marks The O'Reilly Factor 's 100th consecutive month as the top-rated cable [...]

By Michael Malone 'Content centers' to replace traditional newsrooms, news channel to launch NBC Universal is overhauling its operations to recast its stations as 24/7, multi-platform news outlets, not simply [...]

By Michael Malone User-generated content platform gives stations hundreds of 'stringers' YouNewsTV, the service that allows would-be citizen journalists to post video on station Websites, recently hit a milestone: WLNE [...]

TV One in Karachi, Pakistan, is launching News One, a channel dedicated to news coverage that will provide five-minute news bulletins every hour tucked between dramas, soaps and lifestyle programs, [...]

Belo-owned WFAA-TV/DT produces daily local newscasts in HD with Fujinon studio lenses from its new 4000sq-ft remote studio facility at Victory Park, adjacent to the American Airlines Center on the [...]

In a front page story in The Washington Post on Sunday, reporters Dana Priest and Anne Hull exposed dreadful conditions at the supposed 'crown jewel of military medicine'-- Walter Reed [...]

From news reporters to home viewers, NBCU 2.0 - the latest reorganization of the NBC network - has a major focus on the future of TV news. By its very [...]

Most local origination of TV programming is news, so it stands to reason that one way to assess the current state of HD deployment on a local basis is to [...]

By J. Max Robins There has been speculation for months about MSNBC's future as a 24-hour cable news channel--or, maybe more to the point, its lack thereof. But one indication [...]

Insider always likes to see the cause of financial planning furthered. So it was with some joy that Campbell Edgar of Bloomsbury Financial Planning was spotted on breakfast television news [...]

Boston area news outlets are beginning to offer their local programs on mobile devices, such as Apple Computer's iPod, in a bid to hang on to an increasingly distracted audience, [...]

By George Winslow Channels Expand Base Of Homes, Platforms It has been nearly 20 years since News 12 went on the air in 700,000 Cablevision Systems Corp. homes on Long [...]

Boston area news outlets are beginning to offer their local programs on mobile devices, such as Apple Computer's popular iPod, in a bid to hang on to an increasingly distracted [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK An impending report by 60 Minutes on problems in the for-profit higher-education industry has the Career College Association scurrying to mount a pre-emptive public-relations campaign, according to [...]

Contextual search engine Blinkx is launching a new multimedia search service that enables users to search for video and audio clips online from 15 broadcasters including the BBC, ITN and […]

Cable news outlets are more open to pitches with the election over, but PR pros must consider timing and audience demographics to solidify clients' prospects. Many Americans are currently going [...]

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 [...]

ITV has admitted that the timing of its News at Ten has been a failure and the company is to seek a permanent 10.30pm slot for its main bulletin. Viewers [...]

Day 1, Amman, Jordan Although President Bush's ultimatum to President Hussein ended after midnight last night, I was sure that the war would not start for a few days. My [...]

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] [...]

THE FUTURE OF NEWS Balancing what the public wants to know and what it needs While ABC's Ted Koppel remains in place, for a while, disquiet at TV news divisions [...]

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 [...]

SYDNEY -- The axing of local news services in regional and rural Australia has prompted an Australian Broadcasting Authority investigation into the adequacy of the provisions for such services. The [...]

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. [...]