David Bloom

Florida Runs Your News - Posted September 10, 2010
Growing up in South Florida, I should have known I would someday end up somehow involved in TV news. For better or worse, the state of Florida -- and in particular the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale market -- has had maybe the biggest impact on the television news industry outside New York... [TVNewser]

Cable News Notes: Covering the Final Combat Brigade as it Leaves Iraq - Posted August 18, 2010
• MSNBC remained in rolling coverage all night of the final U.S. military convoy as it made its way out of Iraq and in to Kuwait. For much of the night it was a tri-anchor situation with Keith Olbermann in New York, ... [TVNewser]

Richard Engel Reports Live from Military Convoy as Final Combat Troops Exit Iraq - Posted August 18, 2010
NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel was live at the top of "NBC Nightly News" from a stryker fighting vehicle containing the last combat troops in Iraq as they head to Kuwait, marking the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Engel, who was with the 42 Stryker Brigade, said the convoy had a... [TVNewser]

Big Night for BBC - Posted March 18, 2010
Just after BBC News correspondent Lyse Doucet was awarded the prestigious David Bloom Award, Doucet, Katy Kay and the rest of the BBC team held court at the Hi... [FishbowlDC]

Bloom's Daughters Remember Their Father - Posted March 18, 2010
As promised, last night at the RTCA dinner the daughters to the late NBC journalist David Bloom gave a touching tribute to their father. Watch it below: ... [FishbowlDC]

David Bloom's Daughters to Speak at RTCA Dinner - Posted March 17, 2010
Each year the daughters of David Bloom, the NBC correspondent who in 2003 died in Iraq, make a presentation at the Radio & TV Correspondent's dinner in their father's honor. Tonight is no exception. Here are tributes from years past as captured by C-SPAN. Tomorrow morning we'll bring you the tribute from tonight's dinner. ... [FishbowlDC]

RTCA Dinner Wrap-Up - Posted June 21, 2009
We think the President said it best- "The jokes may not be as good, but neither is the guest list." There were no TomKat or Ashton and Demi sightings. The biggest star (and highest dress slit) in the room was former Miss California ... [FishbowlDC]

RTCA Award Submission Deadline Approaching - Posted March 30, 2009
Radio & TV Correspondents' Association Chair Heather Dahl reminds us this evening that the deadline for submissions for the 2009 Barone and Bloom Awards is this Friday, April 3rd. All submissions must be hand-delivered to the Senate Radio-TV Gallery and the winners will be announced, as always, at the annual dinner Thursday,... [FishbowlDC]

WaPo Subsidiary Buys Miami's NBC Station - Posted July 18, 2008
NBC has sold its south Florida station, WTVJ to Post-Newsweek Stations, a subsidiary of the Washington Post Company. NBC bought WTVJ in 1987 for a reported $270 million. NBC was expected to fetch between $350 million and $400 million this time around... [TVNewser]

FBI Tracks Down Lost Manuscript of THE GOOD EARTH - Posted June 27, 2007
If you're of a certain age, Pearl S. Buck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel THE GOOD EARTH was considered to be required reading (the book hasn't aged all that well, so those of my generation and younger haven't been exposed to the book in schools or gone looking for it.) So the news,... [GalleyCat]