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CNN's flood-the-zone strategy with its on-air coverage of the Virginia TV crew killing yesterday brought it a 47% primetime news demo spike compared to its calendar year to date average. The cable news net jumped in primetime from 198,000 news demo viewers to 292K. But Fox News Channel, with a non-flood-the-zone news…

Andy Parker, father of WDBJ reporter Alison Parker, spoke to CNN's Chris Cuomo this morning about her on-air murder. Her father, like relatives of victims of other shootings over the years, spoke about the need for greater gun control measures but predicted that the media will treat this as “a great story for a couple…

Roanoke TV station WDBJ stopped its morning show today at 6:45 AM local time to have a moment of silence for Alison Parker and Adam Ward, the two journalists shot and killed live on camera 24 hours earlier during the CBS affiliate’s show during a stand-up shot in Moneta, VA. Today’s tribute followed a series of vigils…

UPDATE with more information: Police officials confirmed that a former Roanoke TV station employee who has had been identified as the suspect in the killing of a news reporter and cameraman during a live morning-news broadcast has died after shooting himself during a pursuit on Interstate 66 in Virginia. The…