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Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 10:00 am

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 11:00 am

More newspapers bite the dust. Will a million bloggers save, maybe even improve, the news? Or not?

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Monday, February 9, 2009 at 10:00 am

Web-only editions? Mexican billionaires? Charity? What, if anything, can save American newspapers as they scramble to transform – or die?

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Friday, June 27, 2008 at 11:00 am

This week, Leonard Downie Jr., the executive editor of The Washington Post, announced he’s stepping down after 17 years at the helm.
Forty-four years total at the newspaper, where he arrived as a summer intern in 1964.
Many of the stories he’s had a hand in are defining: Watergate. Secret CIA prisons. Walter Reed. The Post has [...]

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On Point Today
The Pandora Effect
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We’ll talk with the founder of Pandora, the online music service that claims it knows what you’ll want to hear.

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Week in the News
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Obama in China. Healthcare crunch time in the Senate. And the mammogram controversy rages on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
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Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

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Google vs. Murdoch
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Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

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Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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