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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.

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

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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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