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McCain maps the battlegrounds

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The conventions have come and gone, and it is still looking like a wider map is in play for the 2008 presidential race than in either of the last two elections. The campaign of John McCain...
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Broadcasters split on the election

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If electoral preferences are measured in terms of dollars donated, then companies in the business of operating radio and television stations are split right down the middle this year. Just under $4M had been...
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Top 20 broadcast political donors

As we noted Friday 9/5/08, broadcasters are much better at collecting money others have donated to politicians than they are at giving it to those ...
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Scholarship award

Spanish Broadcasting System and Mega TV announced the winner of the “Tu Mega TV 2008 “contest awarding the annual Raúl Alarcón Broadcasting & Communications scholarship. ...
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Tribune tries to grab young readers

The Chicago Public Schools this week began distributing the first issue of TheMash, a weekly newspaper mostly written by students, but with training and guidance ...
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Say it ain’t so

We are troubled to report that we are already hearing speculation about the presidential election. The one scheduled to go to the voters for a ...
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Stop the world, I wanna go to Denver

During the week of 8/25/08-8/31/08, there were practically only two places of journalistic interest on the face of the Earth, according to the latest Project ...
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Tribune sells CareerBuilder piece to Gannett

Gannett is now the majority owner of CareerBuilder – but just barely at 50.8%. It paid $135 million to buy 10% from Tribune Company, which still owns 30.8%. “This transaction offers us...
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Tales from the campaign trail

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Barack Obama has agreed to appear on the Fox Network with Bill O’Reilly, even as John McCain pulled out of an appearance on CNN with Larry King. Meanwhile down ticket, the...
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Ike Pappas dead at 75

Former CBS News reporter Ike Pappas died Sunday at age 75. Pappas was covering the moving of Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas police headquarters for ...
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Phishing season in progress, don’t get caught

Here’s your fair warning as you get set to pay your FY 2008 regulatory fees. According to Mitchell Lazarus at Fletcher Heald & Hildreth, there ...
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Five still chasing the Cubs

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Tribune Company CEO Sam Zell confirmed that five bidders remain in the running for the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field and he hopes to have a deal by the end of the year. Zell didn’t identify any of the bidders...
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Growing pains at Sirius XM?

The Wall Street Journal says that the newly merged satellite audio service Sirius XM may be in serious trouble if it doesn’t come up with ...
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Veoh copyright case tossed

A federal judge in California has dismissed a copyright lawsuit by an adult video company against the video-sharing service Veoh Networks, ruling that Veoh was ...
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Fitch sees Tribune default a “real possibility”

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You can bet that Tribune CEO Sam Zell will get some questions in his quarterly conference call today with lenders and bond analysts about a ...
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GfK won’t pursue TNS

GfK says it has not been able to find financing on satisfactory terms to make a buyout bid for TNS, so it is walking away. ...
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Gas taking the fire out of back to school

The high price of gasoline is coming right out of household back-to-school budgets, according to a report from online research outfit Zoomerang. Parents and students ...
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Election resurfaces immediately

The Georgia/Russia conflict briefly knocked Campaign 2008 off the top of the Project for Excellence in Journalism media coverage chart, but it was right back ...
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July another downer for the NY Times Co.

Ad revenues dropped 17.9% in July to $119.9 million for the News Media group at the New York Times Company, which includes the newspapers, WQXR-FM ...
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Employees to buzz from Bee

Just how bad will the ad fall-off for newspapers be? McClatchy’s Sacramento Bee can’t even predict that, so the newspaper isn’t even saying how much ...
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