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April 24, 2008 Breaking News

News Corp may need FCC waiver to acquire Newsday (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:36:36 PDT
Rupert Murdoch's plan to add Long Island's Newsday newspaper to his News Corp empire likely would become the next lightning rod in a debate over how U.S. regulators decide on the number of media properties one company can own.

Beef Spinal Parts Shipped to Japan in Error, Kyodo News Says (Bloomberg.com)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:53:28 PDT
April 24 (Bloomberg) -- Spinal columns discovered in a U.S. beef shipment to Japan on April 21 were sent by mistake, Kyodo News reported, citing a U.S. Agriculture Department official.

News Ratings: NBC on Top; CBS Posts Lowest Numbers Ever (Broadcasting and Cable)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:00:23 PDT
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams topped ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson last week, averaging 8.17 million viewers, with 2.39 million of them in news' target demographic of 25- to 54-year-olds, according to Nielsen Media Research.

CBS News Records Its Worst Ratings (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:40:58 PDT
On Tuesday CBS received ratings results that put an exclamation point on its troubles: the “CBS Evening News” recorded the worst five-night run in its history last week.

Hacker testifies News Corp unit hired him (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:06:45 PDT
A computer hacker testified on Wednesday that a News Corp (NWSa.N) unit hired him to develop pirating software, but denied using it to penetrate the security system of a rival satellite television service.

Biggest stock moves linked to company news, Fed: Goldman Sachs (Market Watch)

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:08:29 PDT
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - The biggest one-day moves in stock and bond markets over the past six months stemmed from Federal Reserve actions and company-specific news, says a new analysis by Goldman Sachs.

News-talk WJR not worried about sports stations (Detroit Free Press)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:27:46 PDT
So, if sports-talk stations are mixing in other topics, what are news-talk stations talking about? And are they feeling threatened?

Funny lady: The News talks with Amy Poehler (New York Daily News)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:07:54 PDT
"Baby Mama" star Amy Poehler talked to the Daily News about living a vampire lifestyle, her husband, actor Will Arnett, and why Judge Judy rules.

“Talent” as Marketing?

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:00:34 PDT
Seth Godin’s recent post on Talent and marketing HR hit home on may fronts. What if you started acting like the VP of Talent? Understanding that talent is hard to find and not obvious to manage. The VP of Talent would have to reorganize the department and do things differently all day long (small example: talent shouldn’t have to fill out reams of forms and argue with the insurance company… talent is too busy for that… talent has people to help with that.) Seth’s point that perhaps we should


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