Just as it affected music distribution, then print and TV journalism and their distribution, the Internet is just beginning to have an effect on advertising.

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The newsroom in question, modelled after CNN and its Time-Warner parent, seeks a return to the glory days of Murrow, Cronkite, Brokaw, Rather, etc. when TV journalism was not considered an oxymoron.

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The logical owner would be a firm committed to opinionated journalism, with a clear strategy for making money from online journalism and a large TV news-gathering operation that could feed video into a Newsweek iPad application.

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He began his career in broadcast journalism in 1970 at WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee, after one year as a newspaper reporter with the Waukegan News-Sun in Waukegan, Ill.

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The Qatari government set up the Doha Centre for Media Freedom in 2008 to promote press freedom and quality journalism, and is home to the pan-Arab satellite TV network al-Jazeera.

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Led by Steve Brill, a journalist and entrepreneur who started Court TV, and Gordon Crovitz, the former Wall Street Journal publisher, Journalism Online is building an iTunes-like model for micropayments of media content.

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Personally winning the Radio Category for the second time, after doing so in 2006, was a boost that I needed after leaving journalism for a while in 2007 and part of 2008 and venturing into TV drama production which didn't work very well for me.

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At the time Mr Thompson said the BBC would only survive in the digital world if it invested more in areas such as journalism, drama, comedy, music, learning, and children's TV and radio.

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