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CNN’s I -Report has pulled together a video of nine CNN journalists — including anchor Brooke Baldwin — sharing their most embarrassing professional moments and what they learned from them.
Among the mistakes:
“CNN.com designer Ken Uzquiano single-handedly ceded Wales to England. True story. He created a map of the UK to go along with a crime story on CNN.com. The only problem was, he left off Wales, instead marking the country as part of England.
“Within two minutes, it was all over the blogs,” Uzquiano remembers.”
According to TV NewsCheck, NBC’s O&Os have just started two new programs aimed at recruiting new, diverse journalists.
In the 2006-2007 television season, 35 percent of the writers of broadcast network, prime-time programs were women, according to an annual study by San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film. In the 2010-2011 season, that number had dropped by half, to 19 percent. What happened?
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