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NBC News Speaks Out About Its Big 'Mistake'

Reuters | Posted 04.09.2012

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By Chris Francescani NEW YORK, April 7 (Reuters) - NBC News' decision to air an edited call from George Zimmerman to p...

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NBC News Pleased With 'Rock Center' Debut

The Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 01.01.2012

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NBC News says it is happy with Monday night's debut of its new newsmagazine, "Rock Center with Brian Williams" despite the expected lackluster ratings...

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Education Nation: Teachers, Officials -- And The University Of Phoenix

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.27.2011

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NEW YORK -- Hundreds of players in the education debate hunkered down in a tent staked over Rockefeller Center's ice skating rink this week for NBC's ...

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Steve Capus: I Miss Katie Couric (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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NBC News President Steve Capus says he misses seeing former "Today" show host Katie Couric on his network. In a chat with MarketWatch's Jon Friedman,...

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Steve Capus Instructs NBC News To Stop Showing Video Of Luger's Deadly Run

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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TVNewser's Chris Ariens is reporting that Steve Capus, president of NBC News, has handed down a directive that the graphic video of Georgian luger Nod...

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NBC News Dominant Despite Network Woes

HuffingtonPost.com | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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The name NBC may be synonymous with turmoil right now, with the network's well-documented problems in primetime and its recent late-night drama involv...

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Network News Chiefs: The Future's So Bright!

Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.25.2011

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At the normally staid Council on Foreign Relations' 60th anniversary celebration of the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship, denial was the order of the day.

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"Meet The Press" Successor To Be Named Soon, Short List Includes Gregory, Ifill, Mitchell, Todd

Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold | Posted 05.25.2011

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NBC executives are closing in on a decision about who will take over "Meet the Press," its venerable Sunday morning political talk show, with the anno...

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Steve Capus: MSNBC Hosts Not "Flag-Wavers For Obama"

Washington Post | Paul Farhi | Posted 05.25.2011

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The end of the election cycle presents the cable news networks with a tricky transition, said Andrew Tyndall, publisher of the Tyndall Report, which t...

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Steve Capus: "Pretty Easy Balancing Act" For Andrea Mitchell's Coverage Of Financial Crisis

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alan Greenspan's name has come up dozens of times on MSNBC in the last month, but never during the 1 p.m. hour. That's the hour anchored by Andrea Mit...

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CNN, NBC News Bosses Fire Back: Jon Klein, Steve Capus Dismiss Palin's Media Criticism As Political Ploy

Broadcasting & Cable | Marisa Guthrie | Posted 05.25.2011

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After several primetime speakers at this week's Republican National Convention unleashed a barrage of attacks on the news media for their coverage of ...

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Tim Russert Dies: The Media Reacts

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Colleagues are reacting with sadness to the news that Tim Russert died at the age of 58 today in NBC's Washington Bureau. Watch Tom Brokaw report the...

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NBC News, MSNBC: Uneasy coexistence?

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — NBC News has managed to achieve the near-impossible this election season in getting Hillary Rodham Clinton and George Bush to agree o...

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White House's Gillespie Takes NBC News Complaint To Fox

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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So, the story so far is this: Last week, George W. Bush, making an appearance before the Knesset, said this: "Some seem to believe we should negotiat...

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MSNBC Vs. Fox News/White House

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The feud between GE/NBC/MSNBC and the White House/Fox News has intensified. Below, five links that encapsulate Tuesday's developments in the MSNBC vs....

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Steve Capus Responds To Ed Gillespie's Charges

MSNBC | Steve Capus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mr. Gillespie, I'm in receipt of your email and want to assure you we take this matter very seriously. We appreciated President Bush's d...

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Why Ed Gillespie Doesn't Have A Leg To Stand On

Huf | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

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White House counsel Ed Gillespie called yesterday's NBC interview with Bush "deceitful" — and reeled off other grievances. There's only one problem: He's pretty much wrong on every count.

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White House Official Slams NBC Over "Appeasement" Coverage

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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White House official Ed Gillespie, in a nice bit of synergy with their Fox News patrons, has shot off a lengthy letter to NBC News' Steve Capus, conte...

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NBC Responds To White House Accusations: We Make Our "Own Editorial Decisions"

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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NBC has issued a statement responding to the Bush administration's accusations of "selective editing" in its coverage of the "appeasement" issue: STA...

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Richard Engel Named NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

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NBC News' Senior Middle East Correspondent Richard Engel — most often seen reporting from war-torn Iraq but more than willing to go wherever bom...

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RTCA Dinner: Pics and Nuggets

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

We're chiming with coverage of Wednesday's Radio and Television Correspondent's Dinner in D.C. — check out our exclusive interview with featured...

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L'Affaire Shuster: Big Camel, Big Straw

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Some people thought this called for Shuster's firing, but they're wrong: It called for an examination of a pattern of behavior. At this point, Clinton and her team should know that any more is gonna smack of politics; her point has been amply, amply made.

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"The Less I Say The More My Work Gets Done": NBC Mystery Song — Revealed!

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ladies and gentlemen, we stand corrected! At the end of yesterday's "NBC Nightly News" there was a song that was not the usual swelling theme music, a...

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