By Danny Schechter
Is the FBI's Crackdown on Mortgage Crime Wave Too Little Too Late?
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By AFP
Peter Mackler, a veteran of Agence France-Presse who covered wars, elections and was the driving force behind transforming the agency's English language service into a global powerhouse, has died at 58. |
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By Robin Kwong, Financial Times
A new wave of Chinese diaspora is set to create fresh markets for Chinese media across south-east Asia, North America and Europe, according to the chief executive of one of the world's biggest Chinese-language publishers. |
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By Laura Oliver, Journalism.co.uk
Journalists in the UK are more likely to be producing video content and blogging as part of their workload than their European counterparts, a new survey has suggested. |
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By Mirror Awards
Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will hold the second annual Mirror Awards luncheon honoring excellence in media industry reporting. |
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By Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed
Student newspaper advisers are something of an endangered species these days |
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By Rachel Sklar, Huffington Post
George Carlin - comic, envelope-pusher, bedeviler of censors everywhere - died yesterday of heart failure at age 71. |
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By Mike Allen, Politico
Tom Brokaw will replace Tim Russert as moderator of NBC' s 'Meet the Press' through the November presidential election, the network announced today. |
The general election is underway and the flip flop charges are flying. This past week both candidates reversed positions - Obama on public financing, McCain on offshore drilling. Whose flip was worse than whose flop? We match 'em up in today's Sunday Show Roundup episode of TPMtv.
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