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Flashback: Berlin Wall Network Newscasts from 1989 - Posted November 9, 2009
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, TVNewser takes a look back at the broadcast network newscasts from that day, November 9th, 1989.
NBC's Tom Brokaw reports for "Nightly News" from Berlin:
Peter Jennings delivers the "astonishing news" for ABC (h/t Mediaite):
Dan Rather stands atop the wall, reporting for... [TVNewser]
Flashback: Berlin Wall Network Newscasts from 1989 - Posted November 9, 2009
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, TVNewser takes a look back at the broadcast network newscasts from that day, November 9th, 1989.
NBC's Tom Brokaw reports for "Nightly News" from Berlin:
Peter Jennings delivers the "astonishing news" for ABC (h/t Mediaite):
Dan Rather stands atop the wall, reporting for... [TVNewser]
Steve Kroft To Receive Paul White Award - Posted November 9, 2009
CBS's Steve Kroft has been named the 2010 Paul White Award winner by The Radio Television Digital News Association (formerly The Radio and Television News Directors Association). Kroft will receive the award April 12 in Las Vegas, during the RTDNA annual convention.
"Steve Kroft's practice of our craft stands as a benchmark... [TVNewser]
Steve Kroft To Receive Paul White Award - Posted November 9, 2009
CBS's Steve Kroft has been named the 2010 Paul White Award winner by The Radio Television Digital News Association (formerly The Radio and Television News Directors Association). Kroft will receive the award April 12 in Las Vegas, during the RTDNA annual convention.
"Steve Kroft's practice of our craft stands as a benchmark... [TVNewser]
Breaking: Charlie Gibson To Step Down from ABC 'World News', Diane Sawyer to Anchor Broadcast - Posted September 2, 2009
TVNewser has learned ABC News will announce today that Charlie Gibson will leave "World News" in January and that Diane Sawyer will be named the new anchor of the network's evening newscast.
Gibson has been the anchor of "World News" since May 2006, after the pairing of Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff... [TVNewser]
At the Center of "The Electronic Hearth" - Posted July 27, 2009
In his column today, Howard Kurtz looks at the death of Walter Cronkite through the deaths of "two other journalistic giants" Peter Jennings and Tim Russert and asks: "Is the news business changing into some alien form that betrays their legacy? Or is such shorthand simply our way of saying they... [TVNewser]
Cronkite Tells It Like It Is - Posted July 22, 2009
Since learning of the death of broadcasting legend Walter Cronkite last week, we have been trying to find the right way to pay tribute to him here. Unfortunately, Cronkite's heyday was a bit before our time -- we grew up in a Peter Jennings world -- so we don't have any... [FishBowlNY]
Josef Adalian Gets Snatched by Sharon Waxman - Posted June 15, 2009
Josef Adalian got a gig over at TheWrap.
From their press release:
Adalian is currently Editor of industry publication TVWEEK.com and prior to that had been at Variety, covering television there for a decade. Adalian joins TheWrap's top-notch editorial and business team, most recently augmented by Variety's former executive editor Michael Speier, who... [FishBowlLA]
FishbowlDC Interview: Rising Star - ABC News' Jake Tapper - Posted June 10, 2009
Unless you live under a rock, you've undoubtedly heard the name "Jake Tapper." As a White House correspondent for ABC News and one of news media's fastest rising stars, Tapper has quickly established "golden boy" status in Washington. We got to know the golden boy a little better in... [FishBowlDC]
Lunch: A Heaping Helping of the Usual Suspects - Posted May 27, 2009
DIANE CLEHANE
We've been spoiled by the steady stream of A-listers we've come to meet during our weekly Wednesday visits. So you can imagine our disappointment when we heard we missed Gabriel Byrne, who was in the dining room a week or so ago on a Tuesday. (We know more than... [FishBowlNY]
Lunch: A Heaping Helping of the Usual Suspects - Posted May 27, 2009
DIANE CLEHANE
We've been spoiled by the steady stream of A-listers we've come to meet during our weekly Wednesday visits. So you can imagine our disappointment when we heard we missed Gabriel Byrne, who was in the dining room a week or so ago on a Tuesday. (We know more than... [FishBowlNY]
Jeffrey Toobin (and Mom) on Today's "Menu" - Posted January 22, 2009
Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu we had generations of journalists, as CNN senior analyst Jeffrey Toobin (or, Jeffrey R. Toobin — check the podcast) and his mother, Marlene Sanders, joined us. Earlier we wrote about Toobin following in his mother's footsteps by participating in Inauguration coverage.
Sanders covered the 1964... [TVNewser]
CNNer Follows In Mom's Footsteps - Posted January 20, 2009
Who is this current CNN correspondent with his mom (a former tvnewser herself)?It's Jeffrey Toobin. TVNewser obtained an email Toobin sent to CNN staff with some publicity photos taken around the time his mother, Marlene Sanders, was a co-anchor for LBJ's inauguration with Peter Jennings for ABC. Toobin is reporting from... [TVNewser]
Who's Missing From Rooney's List? - Posted November 24, 2008
TV Week's Michele Greppi writes in this week's "The Insider" about a tvnewser noticeably absent in Andy Rooney's essay last Sunday on 60 Minutes.
When Rooney gave his list of people who made TV news "good and reliable," Rooney lists Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings. Not listed... [TVNewser]
Changes Coming For ABC News Correspondents - Posted October 20, 2008
ABC News is shifting several bureau correspondents to new cities.
Miguel Marquez moves from Los Angeles to the London bureau; Mike Von Fremd moves from Dallas to Los Angeles and Ryan Owens moves from New York to Dallas.
Marquez joined ABC news in May 2005, but has spent much of his time reporting... [TVNewser]





