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1. July 31, 2012 05:02 PM

   Daily News front page splash ‘flat wrong,’ says NBC

   Reports that Today Show anchor Hoda Kotb was being flown into London to boost ratings are false, the network claims

   By Hazel Sheffield

   The New York Daily News was quick to splash Tuesday’s front page with news that NBC’s Hoda Kotb was being flown in to rescue the Today Show’s Olympics coverage from Savannah Guthrie. The paper used two sources at NBC to confirm that Kotb had been flown to London to “rescue” the team because their pre-Olympics broadcast had fallen behind ABC...

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2. July 31, 2012 12:00 PM

   @GuyAdams is #suspended (Updated)

   Did Twitter's Olympics partnership with NBC lead to a journalist's account suspension?

   By Sara Morrison

   Guy Adams is still "trying to get to the bottom of" why his Twitter account was suspended on Monday. The Independent's Los Angeles-based correspondent told CJR in an email that he doesn't know exactly what happened. But the suspicion in the journo-Twitterverse is that it might have something to do with Adams's multiple criticisms of NBC's Olympic coverage on the...

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3. August 1, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: News Corp.’s board, Romney’s taxes, NBC’s Olympics

   The paper reports prosecutors are examining whether to charge Murdoch's directors

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Guardian's Nick Davis, with David Leigh, has another stunner on the hacking scandal. They report that Britain's Crown Prosecution Service, which last week charged eight News Corp. journalists and executives with crimes, is considering criminal charges against the company's board of directors. Directors within Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation could face corporate charges and prosecution for neglect of their...

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4. August 31, 2012 06:50 AM

   Don’t posit ‘what women think’ without quoting any

   Coverage of Ann Romney's RNC speech said she connected with women, but no female voices in the stories verified the claim

   By Jennifer Vanasco

   In her column, Minority Reports, Jennifer Vanasco analyzes how the mainstream media covers social minorities. Immediately after Ann Romney’s speech to the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, some major media outlets reported the GOP plan had worked: Ann Romney connected with women. Why did they think that was the case? A male Republican strategist told them so. Reuters, discussing Romney’s...

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5. January 6, 2011 03:53 PM

   Hiltzik Takes on the FCC on the Comcast-NBC Deal

   By Ryan Chittum

   John Dunbar has a must-read piece in the current issue of Columbia Journalism Review on why the Comcast-NBC Merger is a bad deal. Go read it. And then go read Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times, who wrote an excellent column in the Los Angeles Times yesterday eviscerating the logic of the FCC approving Comcast's acquisition of NBC Universal...

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6. October 15, 2012 11:00 AM

   MSN.com launches news service

   MSN News is built for Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10

   By Hazel Sheffield

   It’s only three months since Microsoft sold its stake in MSNBC.com, the news site it produced for 16 years in partnership with NBC, but the computing giant has already announced that it will launch a news service called MSN News with the release of Windows 8 on October 26. After that date, visitors to MSN.com will see a blend of...

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7. September 25, 2012 03:00 PM

   Muck Rack hosts a meetup with NBC News

   With tips, chips, and a whole lot of live-tweeting

   By Hazel Sheffield

   Muck Rack, the startup that aggregates media tweets, hosted its first New York meetup at 30 Rock on Tuesday night with a little help from the social media department at NBC News. During a brief talk between bouts of networking over beer, organizers spoke about best practices for using social media in newsrooms. Editors devoted to social have to be...

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8. November 30, 2012 02:50 PM

   NBC News sets good example for Medicare reporting

   People perspective leads to clear explanation of impact of proposed changes

   By Trudy Lieberman

   As tax and spending talks grind on in Washington, The New York Times tells us Friday that in his latest proposal, President Obama has “embraced $400 billion in savings from Medicare and other entitlements to be worked out next year with no guarantees.” Guarantees or not, that means the reporters on the Medicare beat will have plenty to report on...

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9. January 20, 2011 03:05 PM

   New Survey Says Fox Least Trusted

   But there are more questions to be asked

   By Joel Meares

   Public Policy Polling yesterday released its annual study of people’s trust in TV news, and the results are sure to please Fox News detractors. Last year, 49 percent of respondents said they trusted Fox News Channel; this year just 42 percent do. Last year, 37 percent said they distrusted Fox; this year, 46 percent of respondents said they did. The...

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10. September 19, 2011 04:02 PM

    Q&A: New NBC Correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin

    “Part of me wants to speak to the global audience, and a part of me wants to speak to America”

    By Dave Marash

    This spring, just before he turned thirty-two, Ayman Mohyeldin’s contract with Al Jazeera was ending and he was faced with a happy career decision—choosing among offers to stay where he was or go to any of three major American network news organizations. I had worked with him for the first year of Al Jazeera English, when I was an anchor...

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11. January 25, 2011 01:05 PM

    So Long, Olbermann

    What’s next for NBC?

    By The Editors

    With one abrupt announcement at the end of his show on Friday, Keith Olbermann ended his run on MSNBC, where he had hosted Countdown since 2003. The fiery host is “a highly talented broadcaster, a distinctive and outspoken voice and a mercurial personality with a track record of attacking his superiors and making early exits,” wrote The New York Times...

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