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Posted February 26, 2010


Staff cuts at two of the biggest broadcast-television news outfits in the U.S. foreshadow a shift toward cheaper TV news gathering, as broadcast-news groups face shrinking profits and increasing competition from cable and the Internet. Source: Wall Street Journal. Posted February 26, 2010, 6:05 AM PDT.


The Oregonian laid off 37 employees on Wednesday. The majority are in the news department, with smaller numbers in advertising, circulation and accounting. Staffers were informed last year that layoffs were likely this month. The Oregonian, like all newspapers, has endured declining revenues the past few years, the result of the recession and the migration of advertising to the Internet. Source: OregonLive.com. Posted February 26, 2010, 5:55 AM PDT.
Posted February 23, 2010


ABC News is poised to make a major round of cuts that will reduce the size of the news division by as much as 20 percent and radically reorder the network’s traditional approach to news gathering. Forced to belt-tighten by the weak advertising market, network executives have opted to restructure the labor-heavy newsroom from top to bottom in favor of a leaner, more nimble operation. Source: Los Angeles Times. Posted February 23, 2010, 12:44 PM PDT.


Having just bought out a hundred paid reporters, The Times continues to grow its burgeoning army of unpaid assistance. The paper announced yesterday that -- in addition to the non-profit help it already gets in Chicago, the Bay Area and Brooklyn -- it's now enlisted the journalism students of N.Y.U. to help produce a new Times blog called The Local East Village. Source: New York Observer. Posted February 23, 2010, 6:05 AM PDT.
Posted February 22, 2010


As the late-night debacle at NBC turned the daypart into must-see TV, the ABC news program Nightline methodically stuck to its knitting, staying out of the fray while other ABC News programs reported on the intrigue. With Jay Leno preparing to return to The Tonight Show, where he dominated for many seasons, Nightline now finds itself in the thick of the battle. Source: Broadcasting & Cable. Posted February 22, 2010, 6:20 AM PDT.


A new poll finds PBS among the most trusted institutions in America and the most trusted name in news. According to an annual poll conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media, 40 percent of Americans trust PBS' news and public affairs programs a "great deal." Fox News was second at 29 percent and CNN was third at 27 percent. Source: Broadcasting & Cable. Posted February 22, 2010, 6:05 AM PDT.
Posted February 18, 2010


With big media companies grappling with ways to increase online revenues, a new survey released Tuesday showed 85 percent of Internet users believed that online content that is currently free should remain free. Yet the extensive survey by the Nielsen Co. research firm found online consumers may be more willing to pay for certain categories, such as movies, games, TV shows and music, and less likely to pay for news, blogs and user-created videos. Posted February 18, 2010, 10:18 AM PDT.
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