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Breaking Ground With 60 MINUTES: First News Magazine To Broadcast In HD

The advent of HD has been like a ticking time clock. Television broadcasters everywhere have been up against a deadline, forced to reevaluate their workflows and find efficient and cost-effective ways to incorporate HD into their production and post environments.

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Thu Jul 09, 2009

CBS News

Push In S. Afghanistan Sends a Message

It's the first big test of President Obama's new strategy for winning the war in Afghanistan.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, US Military, US Marine Corps, Entertainment, Television

Tue Jul 07, 2009

WCBS Newsradio 880

60 Minutes

Complete audio of this week's 60 Minutes. 60 MINUTES Tonight on 60 Minutes, hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger tells CBS News Correspondent Katie Couric what it felt like to land a jetliner with 150 passengers and 5 crew members on the Hudson River.

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Sun Jul 05, 2009

Myrtle Beach Online

Obama and networks: a symbiotic relationship

Even President Barack Obama, a gleam in his eye as he talked at the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner two weeks ago, seemed to recognize the special relationship he's forged with TV networks in the opening months of his administration.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Entertainment, Pennsylvania

Sat Jul 04, 2009

Mediabistro.com

60 Minutes Honored With Two Gerald Loeb Awards

The program won both of the Loeb television prizes: The Television Breaking News award was given for a financial story by Steve Kroft , "House of Cards" . The Television Enterprise Winner prize went to Scott Pelley 's "The Wasteland", which looked into the dumping of electronic waste .

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Fri Jul 03, 2009

CLTV - Chicago Land's TV

U.S. reservists accused of prisoner abuse

Six Army reservists shown in graphic photos mistreating and humiliating Iraqi prisoners at a sprawling prison west of Baghdad are assigned to the 372nd Military Police Company based in Cumberland, family members and officials said last night.

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Related Topix: Prison, Iraq, World News, Entertainment, Television, Abu Ghraib, Uniondale, NY

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Green Bay Press-Gazette

Guest column: President Obama must redeem campaign promise of exit strategy in Afghanistan

In March, President Obama told CBS' "60 Minutes" that the United States must have an exit strategy in Afghanistan.

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Related Topix: Asia, Afghanistan, World News, Entertainment, Television

Tue Jun 30, 2009

CBS News

60 Minutes Wins 3 Murrows

60 Minutes was awarded three Murrow awards by the Radio and Television News Directors' Association - the only network news magazine honored by the judges.

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Mon Jun 29, 2009

BroadcastNewsroom

NBC, CBS Top National Murrow Awards

The Radio-Television News Directors Association announced the winners of the 2009 National Edward R. Murrow Awards on Monday , with NBC and CBS leading the list of honorees for excellence in electronic journalism.

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Sat Jun 27, 2009

Daily Mail

Doctor: I saved Jackson from morphine overdose after TV interview in US

Michael Jackson collapsed from a morphine overdose nearly six years ago after working himself into a 'frenzy of anxiety' over a TV interview.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson, Entertainment, Television

Thu Jun 25, 2009

The Philadelphia Tribune

Byron Pitts - blessed' to join - 60 Minutes' crew

After years of honing his craft and paying his dues, award-winning CBS News Correspondent Byron Pitts has finally fulfilled his "destiny." The veteran reporter has been named a contributing correspondent to the multiple Emmy Award-winning news program "60 Minutes," and feels "lucky and blessed" to join the ranks of broadcast journalism's elite.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Television, Emmy Awards, Journalism

Wed Jun 24, 2009

Philadelphia's WB 17

David Folkenflik: Iraq prison story tough to hold off on, CBS says

Last Wednesday's broadcast of 60 Minutes II on CBS included photographs of grinning Army Reserve troops from a Maryland-based unit giving "thumbs up" signs next to captive Iraqi men forced into humiliating sexual poses.

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Related Topix: Iraq, World News, Middle East, Entertainment, Television, Abu Ghraib, US Military, US Air Force

Mon Jun 22, 2009

Digital Post Production

Primetime Ratings: U.S. Open Birdies, 'Merlin' Bogeys on NBC

NBC Sports' coverage of the U.S. Open ran into primetime and earned a 1.7/6 from 7-8 p.m., winning the opening hour of primetime.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Animated TV, Comedy, Reality TV, Just For Laughs

Sun Jun 21, 2009

National Ledger

Oil and Water Mix in Ecuador

"We certainly recognize that Chevron does not make a sympathetic victim here," company spokesman Kent Robertson told me over the telephone.

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Related Topix: South America, World News, Ecuador, Entertainment, Television

Sat Jun 20, 2009

TPM Cafe

This Arab moment

Tonight I went to a book party on the Upper West Side for the posthumous memoir A World I Loved , by Wadad Makdisi Cortas, late mother of Mariam Said, at whose apartment the party was.

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Related Topix: World News, Palestinian Territories, Middle East, Entertainment, Television, Israel, Amreeka,

Thu Jun 18, 2009

Mediabistro.com

CBS Promotes Kevin Tedesco To Executive Director, Communications for CBS News

Longtime CBS News exec Kevin Tedesco has been promoted to Executive Director, Communications.

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Tue Jun 16, 2009

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Mladic's life on the run 'captured' on film

Bosnian television has broadcast what it claims is video footage of the fugitive war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic who appears to be enjoying life on the run.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Television, Travel, Serbia Travel, Wedding

Sun Jun 14, 2009

The Austrailian

Westacott's final flay of Nine

JOHN Westacott, the Nine Network's director of news and current affairs, has hit out at the managers who stripped Nine of its ratings and revenue dominance as he announced he will retire after 25 years with the network.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Journalism

Sat Jun 13, 2009

Investor's Business Daily

Dead To Rights

War On Terror: Six years ago, our political cartoonist Michael Ramirez, while working for another newspaper, drew a U.S. soldier reading a jihadist his Miranda rights.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Mike Rogers, Entertainment, Television

Thu Jun 11, 2009

Arizona Daily Star

Are we human, or are we vampires?

If you're one of those people who messed around and got addicted to "True Blood," then this column can't help you.

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Related Topix: True Blood, Entertainment

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