1.   In local news, the battle lines between rival news operations are being blurred even more.

2.   The staid and once-serious network news has begun to look like glitzy local news operations.

3.   And whereas it might be argued that Granada would have kept a strong news operation in Newcastle, control would have been out of the hands of the region.

4.   Among local broadcasters there is speculation that, if KCOP cannot hold its own, its news operation may be closed down.

5.   And most major news operations are now offering streaming video coverage of breaking stories on their Web sites.

6.   As a result, the physical presence of the news operations at the convention is changing, too.

7.   As part of the June revamping, he announced that the autonomous news operation of the prestigious World Service radio would be absorbed by a centralized news department.

8.   As the death toll grew, so did the aggressiveness of TXCN, a news operation looking for an opportunity to show why it belongs.

9.   At the pleasure of sleaze-meister Rupert Murdoch, you have Roger Ailes, the one-time Reagan-Bush attack-adman, managing a news operation.

10.   Atlanta-based Turner Broadcasting is expected to announce more job cuts by the end of the month in addition to those announced Wednesday at the cable news operation.