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Media conglomerate Tribune Co. has filed for bankrutpcy protection, pressured by high debts, according to the Associated Press.

Insiders tell TVNewser Tucker Carlson's 6pmET show Tucker is getting the axe, but Carlson stays on as a political contributor to all MSNBC shows at least through the 2008 election. The official announcement, expected tomorrow, will include details about who will replace Tucker at 6pmET as well as other political programming additions. Sources say the network is going to beef up its schedule with more NBC News talent. In recent days, Jossip, as well as other blogs, ratcheted up the talk that Tucker would be replaced "for a new project." In its 33-month run, Carlson's show has had two names,...

CAN JOURNALISTS REALLY BE PROSECUTED for publishing national security secrets? In the wake of a series of New York Times stories revealing highly sensitive counterterrorism programs, that question is increasingly the talk of newsrooms across the country, and especially one newsroom located on West 43rd Street in Manhattan. Last December, in the face of a presidential warning that they would compromise ongoing investigations of al Qaeda, the Times revealed the existence of an ultrasecret terrorist surveillance program of the National Security Agency and provided details of how it operated. Now, once again in the face of a presidential warning, the...

LONDON10/11/04 - News and city section Half of BBC staff face the axeBy Alexa Baracaia, Evening Standard The BBC is planning to axe as many as 50 per cent of jobs across the board, insiders revealed today. A raft of cuts is being designed to prove the BBC is giving value for money before a review of its 10-year royal charter in 2006. High-ranking sources say earlier rumours of 6,000 losses from 28,000 staff may turn out to be a wild underestimate. It has also emerged that Director-General Mark Thompson is planning to announce the cuts in four weeks -...