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Views of the News: Fox Sports 1, Conservative Journalism, Woodward 'Threat', Buffett's Bet

Fox vs. ESPN

Richard Sandomir and Amy Chozick, The New York Times: "Seeing Riches in Sports TV, Fox Will Create New Network"

William Launder, The Wall Street Journal: "Fox to Launch Sports Cable Network"

Joe Flint, The Los Angeles Times: "News Corp. unveils long-anticipated Fox Sports cable channel"

Jeff Labrecque, Entertainment Weekly: "The prodigal son returns? Could Keith Olbermann and ESPN really bury the hatchet?"

Buffett's Bet on (Some) Newspapers

Rem Rieder, USA Today: "Buffett admits an 'almost unnatural' newspaper love"

Stephen Gandel, Fortune: "Warren Buffett defends his investments in newspapers"

Paul Bond, The Hollywood Reporter: "Media Stocks Soaring Along With Record-Setting Dow"

Josh Sternberg, Digiday: "Washington Post Tries Sponsored Posts"

Robert Picard, The Media Business blog

The State of Conservative Journalism

Michael Calderone, The Huffington Post: "Conservative Media Struggles For Credibility, Amid Coverage of Hookers, Hamas and Hagel"

Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic: "Behold Movement Conservatism's Information Disadvantage: Chuck Hagel Edition"

Paul Farhi, The Washington Post: "For Daily Caller, Menendez controversy makes for 'a very good day'"

'Threatening' Bob Woodward

Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen, Politico: "Woodward at war"

Dylan Byers, Politico: "Press corps to Woodward: Really?"

John Cook, Gawker: "Goodbye, Bob"

MIKE MCKEAN directs the Futures Lab, the experimental newsroom and technology testing center of the Reynolds Journalism Institute. He founded the School's Convergence Journalism program and serves on the MU Information Technology Committee. McKean is a leader in the School's partnerships with Apple, Inc., and Adobe Systems to transform journalism education through pervasive computing. He is a frequent trainer and guest lecturer at top media companies and universities in China, has helped establish convergence journalism programs at Shantou University and Moscow State University, and has conducted Internet workshops in the United States, the Russian Federation and Albania. McKean has been honored with the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching and the MU Faculty-Alumni Award. He earned a bachelor's degree at the Missouri School of Journalism in 1979 and a master of arts in political science from Rice University in 1985. McKean has served on the J-School faculty since 1986.