It has 3, 000 employees, 250 of them working in the news department in bureaus nationwide.
Toward the beginning of his career, CNN video copy editor James Dinan interned with the news department of a radio station in Newton, New Jersey.
The launch of 24-hour news is one of the reasons for a huge reorganisation going on in the news department, designed to increase efficiency by amalgamating resources and abolishing individual programme editorships.
The first shot in the series is a closeup of an intense young man, Freddie Lyon (Ben Whishaw), practicing his pitch to the head of the news department, to try to get on the new show.
Even operations like The Times (which still has, I think, the largest news department of any newspaper in the United States, and whip-smart computer-assisted reporting and investigative units) will face a shortage of human editors to dumpster-dive through all the uploads, looking for good stuff and verifying it.
It was a down day on Wall Street as the positive news from the Labor Department was overshadowed by a disappointing ISM non-manufacturing report.
Secondly, Mr Hunt had misled the House of Commons when he said that he would publish all the exchanges between the department and News Corp, because the Leveson Inquiry had revealed previously unpublished communications.
On Tuesday came the leak to NBC News of the justice department's white paper giving its legal justification for killing an American citizen.
Minutes later, a series of Twitter posts from the Boston Police Department trumpeted the news.
It's unclear why the Justice Department treated the AP case differently from others in which the department has notified news organizations before seeking phone records.
The other big news is that the Obama Department of Justice sued Apple and book publishers for alleged antitrust violations over the price of electronic books.
Nonfarm payrolls rose by a seasonally adjusted 163, 000 jobs last month, the greatest monthly gain since February, according to news from the Labor Department on Friday.
"The system allows us to connect the dots by instantly tapping into the details of crime records, 911 calls, license plate readers, videotape footage and more, " NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said at the news conference, held inside the department's Lower Manhattan Security Initiative headquarters.
The only good news is that the federal Justice Department, which is now involved, may insist on reforms.
Gates, who announced the findings of the report at a news conference, said the department has not done enough to adapt to the evolving domestic internal security threat to American troops and military facilities.
During the course of that broader probe, the Justice Department approached News Corp.
In economic news, the Commerce Department reported retail sales rose just 0.2 percent in November, following an upwardly revised 0.6 percent in October.
Friday's news from the Labor Department was the first real indication that the president may yet have something to fight back with in that arena.
According to media reports, the news of the deal raised concerns within the Department of Defense, and Huawei was subsequently asked to file for CFIUS approval.
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The good news in that department is that Colombia has managed to apprehend a man who may be able to shed much light on just such questions: Walid Makled.
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In economic news, the Commerce Department is reporting a 3.3 percent increase in new home sales in April, to a seasonally adjusted 343, 000 annual rate. economists were expecting a reading of 335, 000.
The Journal reported on Sunday that the Justice Department told News Corp. last year that a whistleblower claimed one or more Journal employees had provided gifts to Chinese officials in exchange for information for articles.
Although Poynter provides a vital financial cushion during lean times, it can't do anything about external forces beyond its control, such as the proliferation of new Web-based news platforms or the consolidation of department-store chains, which has hurt advertising revenues.
The department and the media firms reached a compromise that let the firms continue using their own computers and data lines to ensure fast delivery of economic news but let the Labor Department control access to the computers and supervise maintenance of the equipment.
First Solar shares, which took a big hit last week on news that the Department of Energy was holding back loans it has expected to received to complete a large solar facility in Antelope Valley, California that the company is building for Exelon, continues to lose ground Monday morning.
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That's the word from the Department of Agriculture a day after news about infected British beef triggered off an international scare.
Before the trip, State Department spokesman Mark Toner told the news agency Mrs Clinton was "mindful of all the sensitivities" but that US policy believed that "any change of the name of a country should be a decision" for its people.
"We think that the future may be sooner than some of us are considering, " Robert Hunter, president of ASRC Energy Services, which led the first major field study in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay with BP (nyse: BP - news - people ) Alaska Exploration and the Department of Energy, told Petroleum News.
Now, because of that local decision to work out this temporary arrangement, there were some people who believed that we were giving the MEK special treatment, and there were even news stories that said that the Defense Department planned to use the MEK as a Northern Alliance-type organization making the analogy to Afghanistan as a Northern Alliance-type organization against the government of Iran.
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