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The CBS Evening News business
How would you fix a problem in TV News? Say, the Couric Evening News? Before you send in your running order and personnel tweaks, your graphics ideas and story suggestions remember you are a journalist not a network boss. This is how bosses think (my italics): Karmazin, the former chief of CBS (CBS), was asked…
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CNN drops Reuters TV
Every time an agency contract comes up for review at a news organization, there will always be someone saying: “Couldn’t we just do without [insert name of agency here]?” Generally, it is what’s known as a negotiating tactic. This time it’s Tony Maddox of CNN International, and the agency is Reuters, and apparently he means…
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Cramer for Al Jazeera English?
A tiny rumour a couple of weeks back on Jossip (I’m not a regular) had former CNN International boss Chris Cramer heading to Al Jazeera English by September. If there were even a shred of truth to it, would it be to replace Nigel Parsons or Steve Clarke? Both men might feel they’d served their…
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First rule of terrorism?
Don’t go on the telly. ITV News reporter Jon Gilbert gives the back story to his interview with FBI informant Mohammed Junaid Babar. In 2001, it ran on my old show – five news (we couldn’t afford capital letters) – and was then picked up by CNN on syndication from ITN. That’s when someone from…