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An evolution of powerful proportion is taking place in television news – a transformation of the traditional roles and personalities of broadcast journalists. Andrew Heyward, former president of CBS News and consultant with Marketspace LLC, a business unit of the Monitor Group, shares his view of the changing landscape of journalism in a recent video interview produced by Beet.TV and aptly posted on YouTube.com, a generational mile marker in today’s world of user-generated news.

Monitor receives a Pro Bono Award from the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation as part of the first-ever Summit on Corporate Volunteerism.

It’s not often that the conventional wisdom in business gets turned on its head not once but twice in a month’s time. But Rupert Murdoch’s recent decision, following News Corps’ acquisition of Dow-Jones, to keep the Wall Street Journal’s website a subscription service certainly qualifies.

The playing field for online ad market share may be leveling out. Challenging what increasingly seems to be a battle of Google vs. Everyone Else on the Web, Microsoft’s pursuit of a billion dollar acquisition of Yahoo! takes the fight “down to two.” But the Google vs. Microsoft contest is still Google’s to win, forecasts Jeffrey Rayport, the founder and chairman of Marketspace LLC, a business unit of Monitor Group, in a recent BusinessWeek “Viewpoint” column.

Consulting is honoring their inaugural batch of 20-something standouts.

Peter Schwartz’s The Art of the Long View was the top vote-getter in the APF’s inaugural most important futures work balloting.

W2 Group, a next-generation marketing services company launched by Larry Weber, has received a $30 million investment from Monitor Clipper Partners, the company said on Friday.

“innovation is turning from an art into a science,” just like “management methods before it.”

The best thing that governments can do to encourage innovation is get out of the way