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Chelsea Clinton's New Employer: NBC News

Evann Gastaldo — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:19:26 CST

Chelsea Clinton will show up for work this morning at the NBC News offices. She’s been hired as a full-time special correspondent, and the network will make the official announcement today, the New York Times reports. Clinton, who was touched by people making personal contributions during her mother’s presidential campaign,...

Helen Thomas Retires Amid Fracas

Polly Davis Doig — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:00:40 CDT

White House correspondent Helen Thomas retired today amid a brouhaha surrounding her comments that Israeli Jews should "go home," reports USA Today. The 89-year-old Hearst columnist had covered every administration since JFK's, but succumbed to intense scrutiny that included a White House admonition, being dropped by her speaking agency, and...

Obama Out-Cracks Jay Leno

Sun, 02 May 2010 06:49:45 CDT

President Barack Obama offered a bit of wisdom to a ballroom filled with celebrities, political insiders, and journalists: There are a few things in life harder to find and more important to keep than love. "Well, love and a birth certificate," he quipped at last night's black-tie White House Correspondents'...

Stephanopoulos Takes GMA Gig, Wants More News

Harry Kimball — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:11:40 CST

George Stephanopoulos has accepted ABC's offer to take over Diane Sawyer’s co-anchor chair on Good Morning America and will start Monday. The shuffling means that Chris Cuomo is out as news anchor at GMA , to be replaced by JuJu Chang. Cuomo's fate with the network is unclear, but he's in...

TV Networks Scale Back Iraq War Coverage

Wesley Oliver — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:26:49 CST

Violence is down drastically in Iraq, but so is coverage of the conflict by ABC, NBC, and CBS, who no longer have full-time correspondents in the country, the New York Times reports. Instead, the networks are shifting their focus to Pakistan and Afghanistan. “Afghanistan was the forgotten war,” said one...

How Buffy Saved a Baghdad Reporter

Elizabeth Wolff — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:55:41 CDT

NPR correspondent Jamie Tarabay says that watching DVDs of the cult classic Buffy the Vampire Slayer series saved her life—psychologically—while reporting from Baghdad. “It can be a very lonesome gig,” Tarabay recalls, and watching the series’ vampire-fighting star “deal with her private war zone helped me deal with...

Death Photo of Famous War Correspondent Surfaces

Laurel Jorgensen — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:35:00 CST

He was a celebrated World War II correspondent who became a household name and earned a Pulitzer Prize for his stories about hometown soldiers. But the photo that captured Ernie Pyle’s death on the battlefield only turned up recently, surprising historians, AP reports. The never-before-published photo shows Pyle lying on...

'07 a Deadly Year for Journalists

Marcia Greenwood — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 05:20:43 CST

This year has been the deadliest for journalists in more than a decade, reports AP. A media watchdog group said yesterday that 64 journalists in 17 countries have died while covering the news. Most of the deaths—31—occurred in Iraq, which leads the list for the fifth year. "Working...

Rove to Sheryl Crow: "Don't Touch Me!"

Sarah Seltzer — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:12:25 CDT

"Dismissive, condescending, and quite frankly a bully," is the verdict on Karl Rove from environmental activist Laurie David and singer Sheryl Crow. In their Huffington Post account of the White House Correspondents Dinner, they say Crow tapped Rove's shoulder when he turned from a conversation about global warming, and he...