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Diane Sawyer to replace Charlie Gibson on ABC's World News

Diane Sawyer will replace Charles Gibson as anchor of ABC's World News, the network's signature news broadcast. Gibson has anchored the newscast since...
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Debating health care: A new prescription and role for TV

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Commentary: Television is particularly well suited to play a valuable role in helping the country make good choices about health care, and get beyond...
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Democrats fire back at health care forum disruptions

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Commentary: TV news coverage of health care reform now has the sort of adversarial controversy that is easy to document and compelling. Congressional...
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Coverage of Gates, Crowley, sharing beer with the President, offers few surprises

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The cable news networks did not surprise us. The beer chat in the Rose Garden was covered with all the serious intensity of a major summit. Little of...
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Professor Gates, Sergeant Crowley, and a beer with President Obama

So much has been reported about the confrontation between Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cambridge Police Sergeant James Crowley, that...
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Jon Stewart vs. Brian Williams: And the winner is--us

When Brian Williams appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, earlier this week, the two TV titans tensely tangled but apparently left laughing....
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Remembering Walter Cronkite: Reflections on a legend and where we go from here

When I walked into ABC News headquarters in New York City, in August of 1973, my goal was to become the next Walter Cronkite. It was my first TV news...
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Fixing TV News from the inside out, part two

This is the second of two parts on how to fix TV News. Part one was posted earlier. NEW APPROACHES When TV news...
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Fixing TV News from the inside out

COMMENTARY: As the economy continues to struggle, television stations and the networks are cutting news staffs and...
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Musician Carroll's viral video as a tool--and lesson--for journalists

In case you have not yet heard of Dave Carroll, he's the Canadian musician who posted a music video (embedded at the end of this article) on YouTube,...
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