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FOX59 crew carjacked at gunpoint right before a live shot earlier today. http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2014/10/14/fox59-carjacked-held-at-gun-point-stolen-personal-items/17283859/ http://fox59.com/2014/10/14/fox59-crew-approached-by-gunman-carjacked/

Sinclair surrendering 3 station licenses Due to new FCC rules against shared services agreements and Sinclair being unable to find a buyer for WCIV Charleston and WCFT-WJSU Birmingham (aka WBMA ABC 33/40), Sinclair has proposed surrendering the licenses to those stations to sweeten the pot for...

NBC's Kerry Sanders was temporarily blinded due to burned corneas from a HMI light. His "blog" post about the incident is here http://freepdfhosting.com/faca716079.pdf

KJRH photog killed in auto ax http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/kjrh-photographer-killed-in-car-accident_b110532 http://www.kjrh.com/dpp/news/local_news/kjrh-employee-cameron-hood-of-owasso-died-in-a-car-crash-thursday-afternoon

WUSA crew pepper sprayed by a rather angry lady earlier today... http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/281107/187/Woman-attacks-WUSA9-crew-in-SE-DC

...okay this is just a half-arsed attempt to make him feel slightly shamed for the over forty days and forty nights of no blog updates on Viewfinder BLUES - especially since the now MIA chronicler of the lives and times of the modern day photog has ditched the streets for bankers hours under the...

Those who regularly read my blog are probably vaguely aware of my side project of correcting the Newseum's inadvertent mistakes and exclusions on their memorial wall....they are mostly newspaper folks running the show so its sadly not surprising there are so many errors in regards to TV (and...

Semi-regular post by me to start conversation here (and maybe traffic). A collection of topical articles and anniversaries from around the web of news and features of the past week. Feel free to add your own links as well. ====================== Aug : Keven Strehle's obit and condolence book...

Mick Deane of Sky News was shot and killed this morning while filming the violence in Cairo. More about Mr. Deane is at the link from his employer and other British news sources. http://news.sky.com/story/1128530/sky-news-cameraman-killed-in-egypt...

Semi-regular Tuesday post by me to start conversation here (and maybe traffic). A collection of topical articles and anniversaries from around the web of news and features of the past week: Aug : Matt Mrozinski now chief at WHTR-TV, Indianapolis. Aug 9 : Keven Strehle dies in a motorcyle...

Semi-regular Tuesday post by me to start conversation here (and maybe traffic). A collection of topical articles and anniversaries from around the web of news and features of the past week: Aug 1 : Thirty-six years ago in 1977, photographer George Spears of KNBC dies in a news helicopter crash...

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/KGO-TV-crew-robbed-in-Oakland-4704823.php#src=fb So much for the security guards....A KGO crew is relieved of their gear at gunpoint.

Soon to be semi-regular post topic by me to start conversation here (and maybe traffic). A collection of headlines from around the web of news and features of the past week. July 27 : 6 years later: Remembering 4 killed in ABC15, 3TV helicopter crash July 27 : School of Journalism hires news...

Since I know some of you collect books of the news photog genre, retired CBS photog Wade Bingham wrote a book recently that I became aware of. http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/wade-bingham/my-eyes-have-seen/paperback/product-20550436.html Mr. Bingham for those who don't recognize his name, is...

The soon-to-be Sinclair bought KMTR and after the sale closed, fired 31 out of 50 employees at the station. They also own KVAL and produce KLSR's newscasts...effectively controlling 3 stations in a 4 station market. The station's advertisers are pissed about it along with viewers...