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1. July 19, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: Ignoring Libor, Barron’s, rich kids and TV news

   ABC and NBC evening newscasts ignore the huge scandal in its first two weeks

   By Ryan Chittum

   The Washington Post's Erik Wemple points to Media Matters research that shows ABC's and NBC's nightly newscasts completely ignored the enormous Libor scandal unfolding here and in the UK during the first two weeks of the story. CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC have only spent about 12 minutes combined covering the story during their evening newscasts and...

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2. September 22, 2011 06:34 PM

   ESPN Obscures Its Own Role in the Conference Realignment Mess

   The network's $300 million deal with Texas, at the heart of the news, goes almost unmentioned

   By Ryan Chittum

   If you cover college sports for ESPN, you've got a real problem right now. The biggest story these days is the conference realignment that's bringing tectonic shifts to the NCAA landscape, ending century-old rivalries, and setting longtime partners at each others' throats. Problem is, ESPN itself is at the heart of why this is happening. Its Longhorn Network deal with...

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3. June 29, 2012 03:00 PM

   News Corp.’s digital divergence

   While print media converges on TV news

   By Felix Salmon

   There’s no secret why Rupert Murdoch is breaking News Corp into two pieces. Amy Chozick explains: News Corporation had evolved into a successful entertainment company with a newspaper problem, several people close to the company have said. “The idea this was this integrated media company isn’t true,” said one of those people, who was briefed on News Corporation’s strategy but...

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4. April 17, 2012 01:09 PM

   Teletext Lives On in Scandinavia

   The pre-Internet digital news service shuts down in the UK, but survives in Northern Europe

   By Lauren Kirchner

   Just about every television in Europe has a “teletext” button. Push the button on your television remote and you’re digitally transported to the early 1980s. Against a black background, brief news dispatches are spelled out in bright, thickly pixelated text reminiscent of an Atari game title screen. As old-fashioned as it looks, the news you see isn’t from the ’80s—it’s...

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5. July 25, 2012 06:50 AM

   The Muslim Brotherhood’s post-uprising TV station

   New since the regime change last year, Misr25 is navigating the line between coverage and advocacy

   By Jared Malsin

   CAIRO, EGYPT — The Muslim Brotherhood’s year-old television station, Misr25, broadcasts from a building in Egypt’s Media Production City, a vast complex of buildings built under former president Hosni Mubarak in the desert west of Cairo, well beyond the pyramids. The compound is home to dozens of production studios, including those of Misr25’s direct competitors in Egyptian television. A red...

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