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• Broadcast Business Journalists Talk About Competition at a Free One- Day Workshop in New York City

  - 2008-03-26

  To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Andrew Leckey, Director of the Reynolds Center, +1-480- 727-9186 NEW YORK, March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Registration is open for a free daylong workshop in New York City on "Broadcast Business Journalism" featuring journalists from CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, Fox Business Network and "The Nightly Business Report."...

  Tags: Bloomberg L.P., CNBC, CNN, director, FINANCE, journalist, workshop

• The big newscasts and the Black anchors who deliver them

  - 2007-08-01

  AS BOMBS EXPLODED outside his window, Bernard Shaw was as cool as the other side of the pillow. Reporting live from the ninth floor of a Baghdad hotel at the start of the Gulf Wars in 1991, CNN's top anchor, a Black man, was so good at bringing the action...

  Tags: ABC Inc., CBS Corp., chair, CNN, director, journalist, NBC Universal Inc., network, NETWORKING, TVs, VP

• The making of Malveaux: CNN's White House correspondent discusses the impact of having educators as parents and how higher education shaped her journalism career

  - 2007-07-26

  Known to millions for her incisive and scrupulous reporting, CNN White House Correspondent Suzanne Malveaux has drawn considerable praise as a broadcast journalist throughout her career. For the past five years, Malveaux has covered the Bush White House and national affairs for CNN, making her one of the most visible...

  Tags: CAREER, CNN, education, Harvard University, journalism, journalist, sociology, White House

• Gail Shister | Emotionally involved news

  - 2006-08-27

  A year later, Brian Williams still seethes about Katrina. "I'm so angry," NBC's Williams says, his voice filling with emotion. "Not to sound too '60s about it, but these were brothers and sisters. These were fellow American citizens who had been ill-served by a whole lot of people." Williams was...

  Tags: CNN, Cooper, journalist, Katrina, TVs, Williams

• Gail Shister | CNN's Dobbs rides tall with immigration issue

  - 2006-05-09

  Going south of the border is driving Lou Dobbs' numbers north on Nielsen. Tapping into the zeitgeist with a vengeance, Dobbs' rants against illegal immigration are yielding big ratings for CNN. The 6 p.m. weekday Lou Dobbs Tonight averaged 817,000 total viewers last month - a 46 percent...

  Tags: CNN, Cooper, immigration, journalist, president

• Gail Shister | Snow will 'get it,' White House correspondents say

  - 2006-04-27

  Current and former White House correspondents are delighted that a member of their tribe is press secretary for the first time in 32 years. Fox News commentator and radio host Tony Snow, named yesterday, is the first career journalist to hold the title since NBC's Ron Nessen became President...

  Tags: ABC Inc., CNN, journalist, MARKETING, media, NBC Universal Inc., president, secretary, Snow, Tony, TVs, White House

• New Iran president makes a splash at UN

  - 2005-09-18

  UNITED NATIONS AFP — Iran's new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a splash at the United Nations last week, matching diplomatic toughness with unexpected public-relations skills in his debut on the world scene. The hardliner flew into New York fighting what he called a "psychological war" with the West over...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CNN, Iran, journalist, president, splash, summit, U.N.

• Pundit limbo: how low can they go?(The Liberal Media)

  - 2005-01-31

  While often annoying, punditry is an honorable and necessary corollary to media in search of the holy grail of objectivity. But the business has fallen into a pathetic state in recent times, as is clear from three scandals, the reactions to which are no less indicative of...

  Tags: Administration, Cable, CNN, journalist, MARKETING, MSNBC, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TVs, Williams

• Soledad O'Brien: co-host, CNN's American Morning

  - 2004-12-01

  SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, who gave birth to twin boys late this summer, returned to her post as co-host of CNN's flagship morning show, American Morning. The veteran journalist, who has attracted new viewers since joining the network last year, brings experience from NBC's Today Show, NBC's Nightly News, MSNBC's The Site...

  Tags: CNN, journalist, NBC Universal Inc.

• Doubt and derision over Baghdad.

  - 2003-07-01

  Our nation is still catching its breath after the 24-hour, seven-day-a-week, commercial-free, embedded, reported, re-reported, questioned, analyzed, parroted media frenzy that was the coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Never in the world's history has the combination of technology and reporters at the front lines brought war...

  Tags: ABC Inc., Baghdad, civilian, CNN, Iraq, journalist, MARKETING, media, Saddam, TVs, U.S.