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NEW YORK - Jerry Nachman, the brash, Emmy award-winning journalist for MSNBC who spent years in local television news and also edited the New York Post, has died of cancer, MSNBC announced Tuesday. He was 57. Nachman died overnight at his home in Hoboken, N.J., said the network, where Nachman had been editor in chief and vice president since April 2002. He had been battling cancer for a year; he told the viewers of his show, "Nachman," in January 2003 that he had been diagnosed with a malignancy in his gall bladder. "Jerry Nachman will be remembered not only for...

Nachman just died in NYC...Breaking...he was a GREAT newsman.

Moore alters "Bowling" DVD in response to criticism (9/2) By Brendan Nyhan In the newly-released DVD version of his Academy Award-winning documentary "Bowling for Columbine," filmmaker Michael Moore has altered a caption that he fictitiously inserted into a 1988 Bush-Quayle campaign commercial -- one of a number of misstatements and deceptive arguments we criticized when the film was released last year. Ironically, on the same day the DVD was released, Moore issued a libel threat against his critics on MSNBC's "Buchanan & Press," saying, "Every fact in the film is true. Absolutely every fact in the film is true....

Posted Monday, April 21MSNBC Sets Postwar Programming MSBNC has taken another step in its transition to postwar programming. The cable network declared that stand-alone shows hosted by legal correspondent Dan Abrams and editor-in-chief Jerry Nachman don't "make sense going forward." In an internal e-mail, MSNBC President Erik Sorenson said both men would remain on-air contributors -- Mr. Abrams as a daytime anchor and correspondent on crime and legal stories and Mr. Nachman "as a kind of Eric Sevareid/Jeff Greenfield voice on media, politics and law enforcement stories and issues." Mr. Sorenson said the staffs of both shows are being redeployed...

[...]As opinion-driven Fox has surged into first place in the ratings race among cable news channels, and more straight-laced CNN has hired well-known on-air talent such as Connie Chung, MSNBC executives have been pleading for money from their corporate bosses, NBC and Microsoft, to make the station more than an embarrassing, money-losing also-ran.[...]Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes, who got a show just last January, declined to move to MSNBC's daytime lineup and will be off after July 15, the day most changes take effect.[...]

MSNBC TO LAUNCH NEW PRIMETIME LINEUP BEGINNING MONDAY, JULY 15Published: June 10, 2002 "DONAHUE" AT 8:00 PM, ET, “NACHMAN” AT 7:00 PM JOIN CHRIS MATTHEWS, ASHLEIGH BANFIELD – IN NEW TIME SLOTSMULTIMILLION DOLLAR MARKETING CAMPAIGN HERALDS "DONAHUE" AND NEW PRIMETIME LINEUPSECAUCUS, N.J. -- June 10, 2002 -- MSNBC, America’s NewsChannel, which is rebranding itself as the cable news network that goes beyond the day’s headlines to provide fiercely independent analysis of the news, will premiere a new primetime lineup on Monday, July 15, it was announced today by Erik Sorenson, President and General Manager, MSNBC.“On July 15, MSNBC will have...