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  • Al-Jazeera pays $500M for Current TV

    Al-Jazeera has a growing reputation for serious news gathering and its reporters have won some of the biggest awards in journalism. What the Pan-Arab news network doesn't have is a significant presence in the U.S.


  • Newspapers erect pay walls in hunt for new revenue

    Newspapers are returning to a business strategy that served them well in the heyday of street-corner newsboys shouting the front-page news. They're enticing people with a little free online content before asking them to pay up.


  • Philly papers to sell Android tablets with content

    The owner of the city's two major newspapers planned to announce Monday that it will begin selling Android tablet computers preloaded with their content in a digital venture designed to shore up readership and finances nearly a year after the publications emerged from bankruptcy.


  • Inside the Beltway

    Will there be a big reveal?


  • Analysts, NPR: Video edit of executive misleading

    News analysts say that a hidden-camera video by a conservative activist targeting NPR was edited in misleading ways to showcase inflammatory remarks from a public radio executive.


  • FILE-  In this file photo provided by ABC News, Andrea Canning interviews actor Charlie Sheen Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, in Los Angeles for a Special Edition of 20/20 which aired Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Sheen told Canning he is 100 percent clean and plans to show up for work despite CBS's pulling the plug on this season's production of "Two and a Half Men." (AP Photo/ABC News, FILE)

    Too much Sheen: Good for ratings, bad for Sheen?

    Of all the thousands upon thousands of words said, written or broadcast about Charlie Sheen in the past week, one pithy tweet may have best summed up the seemingly endless appetite for all things Charlie.


  • FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2009 file photo, Keith Olbermann attends the "Defying Inequality" Broadway concert, a celebrity benefit for equal rights, in New York. MSNBC says Olbermann will be back on the air Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010, ending his suspension for violating NBC's rules against making political donations.  (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)

    MSNBC says Olbermann will be back on air Tuesday

    MSNBC says Keith Olbermann will be back on the air Tuesday, ending his suspension for violating NBC's rules against making political donations after two shows.


  • FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2009 file photo, Keith Olbermann attends the "Defying Inequality" Broadway concert, a celebrity benefit for equal rights, in New York. MSNBC says Olbermann will be back on the air Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010, ending his suspension for violating NBC's rules against making political donations.  (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, file)

    MSNBC says Olbermann will be back on air Tuesday

    MSNBC says Keith Olbermann will be back on the air Tuesday, ending his suspension for violating NBC's rules against making political donations after two shows.


  • Olbermann suspension ends Tuesday

    MSNBC says Keith Olbermann will be back on the air Tuesday, ending his suspension for violating NBC's rules against making political donations.


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