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The struggling US media industry is facing its worst year for job layoffs in a decade as news organizations continue to cut staff and close shop, according to a new survey. The consultancy Challenger Gray & Christmas reported this week that media companies, which include movies, television, publishing, music, and broadcast and print news, announced plans to cut 15,474 jobs so far this year, of which 11,878 of which were from news organizations. That is nearly three times more than the 4,062 cuts announced in the media sector in 2017 and the highest total since the economic crisis in 2009....

A time for healing, according to NBC’s Katie Couric, not for the reading of the Gettysburg Address or the Declaration of Independence. In the fifth hour of Wednesday’s Today, Couric also hit Senator Clinton from the left on arming pilots: “Of course a lot of critics have said this is insane, this is a ridiculous notion. Why did you decide to support that measure?” At the top of the September 11 show, MRC analyst Geoffrey Dickens noticed, Couric scolded Mayor Michael Bloomberg about the then-upcoming “Ground Zero” ceremony: “There will be some very moving silences, frankly, during the ceremony. But...