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Hollywood ReporterABC News and the BBC are expanding their news partnership in Iraq, with ABC reducing its full-time presence there while relying on the BBC for day-to-day reports from inside the country.
ABC will continue to have a Baghdad bureau, though there will be fewer employees than there have been since the war began in 2003 and no full-time correspondent. ABC News will continue to have correspondents covering the war in Iraq, for larger stories like the upcoming elections as well as when the situation warrants.
... ABC's decision to share content with the BBC comes at a time when the broadcast networks are finding their budgets slimming and the need to cover stories like the war in Afghanistan increasing. ABC hasn't shied away from covering international stories, with a creative use of resources in one-person, high-tech bureaus in India, Africa and elsewhere. But the Iraq War has, even with 130,000 U.S. troops remaining there, fallen mostly off the front pages and top-of-the-evening newscasts. Troop deaths are down and so is the amount of time that the networks have devoted to the story in the election year just past.
The evening newscasts only gave 434 minutes of airtime to the war, down sharply from the 1,888 in 2007 when it was the top story of the year, according to the Tyndall Report. The networks gave 2,009 minutes of coverage in 2006. But the presidential election and the recession were by far the biggest stories of 2008, pushing Iraq far down the list of news priorities. By contrast, there were 745 minutes of stories on the Obama campaign and 531 minutes of stories on the McCain campaign, Tyndall said.
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