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ABC News announces staff cutbacks, restructuring

Posted by fcnadmin on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 02:21


NEW YORK (AP) -- ABC News staffers got a memorandum Tuesday that promises to leave no part of the organization untouched, and will lead to massive personnel reductions by the end of 2010.
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Foreign News Channels Drawing U.S Viewers

Posted by fcnadmin on Sun, 02/21/2010 - 15:52

Television viewers in the United States seeking international news are starting to switch over to foreign channels to learn what is happening in the outside world, media watchers here say.
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2009 Deadly Year for Journalists

Posted by fcnadmin on Sun, 02/21/2010 - 15:51

Last year 110 journalists were killed in the line of duty, making 2009 the deadliest year in the decade, according to the latest report of the International Press Institute.
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British Journalist and American Marine Die in Afghan Bomb Explosion

Posted by fcnadmin on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 23:40


KABUL, Afghanistan — A British journalist embedded with an American unit in Helmand Province was killed along with a Marine when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb, the British Defense Ministry reported Sunday. It was the second time in two weeks that a Western journalist had been killed on an embedded assignment, underscoring the increased risk on the roads as military operations intensify in Afghanistan
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Afghan War Claims Canadian Soldiers and a Journalist

Posted by fcnadmin on Fri, 01/01/2010 - 06:12


The violent news out of Afghanistan on Wednesday was as tragic as it was surprising. A suicide bomber somehow managed to slip into a tightly secured military base in Khost Province and set off his explosives, killing at least six Americans, some of whom were C.I.A. operatives.
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