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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-11 08:19 AM
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Outsourcing the News: How covert consolidation is destroying newsrooms and circumventing media owner
http://www.savethenews.org/resources/outsourcing-news-how-covert-consolidation-destroying-newsrooms-and-circumventing-media-own

This white paper by Free Press's Corie Wright and Josh Stearns lays out our research on covert consolidation and provides in-depth case studies of three covert consolidation deals.

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RockaFowler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-11 08:34 AM
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1. This is going on at my station right now
We provide the news for the FOX affiliate. And they are now housing their Sales staff in our building. I hate it. Our news has become superficial and bland because we have no way of doing any in depth reporting - there is no time to do it.
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-22-11 08:37 AM
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2. Part of the end result of the passage of the '96 Telecom Act. n/t
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