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Large media companies are growing more eager to buy television stations. A chain of stations that shares production facilities, marketing strategies, content, and even sales staff will save money and be able to offer advertisers more eyeballs. The FCC is expected to lift the ban on the rule capping any company reaching more than 35 […]
By Marion Just, Rosalind Levine and Todd Belt The terrorist attacks in New York and Washington galvanized their local stations and brought into relief the challenge of providing all-out breaking news coverage. Based on what news directors around the country say about their budgets, it’s questionable whether most stations would be able to respond just […]
Washington, D.C. Participants Peter Berkowitz, Professor, George Mason University Law School Derek Davis, Professor, J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies at Baylor University Amber Khan, former Communications Director, the Interfaith Alliance Richard John Neuhaus, Editor-in-Chief, FIRST THINGS Clarence Newsome, Dean, Howard University School of Divinity Manjit Singh, Executive Director, Sikh Mediawatch And Resource Task Force […]
By Carl Gottlieb and Todd Belt Today in local television news few stations are gaining audience. Winning is now a matter of beating the odds. This year, in our sample of 43 stations, 77 percent are suffering ratings declines. In our 1998 study, by comparison, that number was 66 percent, but it has been in […]
Personal accounts An eyewitness account johnreinan on The Well Tue 11 Sep ’01 This is an eyewitness account from a friend of mine. He e-mailed it to another friend, who forwarded it to me. I’m not able to contact my friend to get his permission to post this, so I’m leaving off his name. But […]
2:00 – 4:30 p.m. National Press Club Washington, D.C. MIKE ARMACOST (President, Brookings Institution): It’s a great pleasure to welcome you on behalf of the Brookings Institution and, of course, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. In recent years a new dialogue has started on what congregations’ proper roles are in lifting up […]
by Andrew Kohut for Columbia Journalism Review
The country has been inundated with news about Chandra Levy, the missing Washington intern. The coverage has seemed almost nonstop on cable television news, and the story has been Topic A on the chat shows. Even Dan Rather, who had resisted covering what he considered a tabloid story, had to give in and let his […]
National Press Club Washington, D.C. A discussion with: Jean Bethke Elshtain, Professor, University of Chicago and Co-chair, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life Professor Elshtain is a political philosopher whose task has been to show the connections between our political and our ethical convictions. Her works include Augustine and the Limits of Politics and […]