On November 12, 2008, Dentsu announced that it was selling 80. 1 % of its ownership in the company to NBC Universal's Universal Pictures International Entertainment ( UPI ), which plans to merge the company with its Universal Pictures Japan division to form a new company.

The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.

In July 2008 the price of oil peaked and began to decline and Alberta's economy soon followed suit, with unemployment doubling within a year.

This version of the script logo has been on the front of the away jerseys since 2001 and the home ones since 2004. The Orioles began the 2008 season in a rebuilding mode under President of Baseball Operations Andy MacPhail.

From 2008, the BBC gradually began to drop the BBCi name from its digital interactive TV services also, replacing it with the name BBC Red Button.

There have been eight series sweeps since interleague play began: four by the Cubs in 1998, 2004, 2007, and 2008, and four by the White Sox in 1995, 2008, and 2012.

The Colorado Rockies began the 2008 season after few offseason changes from the National League champion squad of 2007.

In late 2008, Liam Connor and his ex-sister-in-law Carla Connor gave into their feelings for each other and began an affair.

On January 17, 2008, a Brazilian federal court order prohibiting all sales of Counter-Strike and EverQuest and imposing the immediate withdrawal of these from all stores began to be enforced.

After years of stagnation, the " new thinking " ( Anatoli Cherniaev, 2008: 131 ) of younger Communist apparatchiks began to emerge.

Digimon Savers began airing in the country on September 8, 2008 and has currently ended.

In January 2008, Dark Horse Comics began releasing a four-part monthly comic book mini-series based on Evil Dead, written by Mark Verheiden, with art by John Bolton, who provided art for the Dark Horse Army of Darkness comic.

In September 2008, EastEnders began a grooming and paedophilia storyline involving characters Tony King ( Chris Coghill ), Whitney Dean ( Shona McGarty ), Bianca Jackson ( Patsy Palmer ), Lauren Branning ( Madeline Duggan ) and Peter Beale ( Thomas Law ).

In autumn 2008, the Montana Lottery, one of only four U. S. states to legalize sports betting, began offering fantasy sports wagering for the first time.

A comprehensive programme of organizational reform and culture change began in 2008 after the release of an Independent External Evaluation.

In 2008, Coleman was involved in an automobile accident after an altercation at a Payson, Utah bowling alley which began when Colt Rushton, age 24, photographed Coleman without his permission ; the two men argued, according to witnesses.

In 2004 development began on HTML5 in the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group ( WHATWG ), which became a joint deliverable with the W3C in 2008.

In 2008, Neal Walfield began working on the Viengoos microkernel as a modern native kernel for HURD.

Reruns of Hee Haw began airing on RFD-TV in September 2008, and the show has aired there since, currently anchoring the network's Sunday night lineup with a re-airing of that week's episode the following Monday.

The film New in Town starring Connick and Renée Zellweger, began filming in January 2008, and was released in January 2009.

In June 2008, Heinz began an advertising campaign in the UK for their new ' New York Deli Mayo ' products.

Hezbollah alongside with some other groups began the 2006 – 2008 Lebanese political protests in opposition to the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.

On December 1, 2006, these groups began the 2006 – 2008 Lebanese political protests, a series of protests and sit-ins in opposition to the government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.

In November 2008 the Air Force of Zimbabwe was sent, after some police officers began refusing orders to shoot the illegal miners at Marange diamond fields.

The Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament began a five-year stint at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in 2008.

The countdown since 2008 has shown the elements of journalism and production involved in bringing news stories to air

Secondly, in 2008, United States President George W. Bush had a shoe thrown at him by a journalism as a statement against the war that was brought to Iraq and the lives that it has cost.

During the summer of 2008, The Washington Post ran a 13-part series billed, in part, as " a tale of the tabloid and mainstream press pack journalism that helped derail the investigation.

Cynical satire has had enduring popularity, with television series such as Frontline, targeting the inner workings of " news and current affairs " TV journalism, The Hollowmen ( 2008 ), set in the office of the Prime Minister's political advisory ( spin ) department, and The Chaser's War on Everything, which cynically examines domestic and international politics.

In 2008, The state-of-the-art journalism education complex in the heart of ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus was also built in his honor.

In 2008, the University opened a campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar with programs in journalism and communication.

In November 2008, in recognition of his contribution to journalism, radio, and television, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Westminster.

On October 18, 2008 at a McCain rally, Hayes began his remarks by saying it was important to “ make sure we don ’ t say something stupid, make sure we don ’ t say something we don ’ t mean .” He then accused Obama of “ inciting class warfare ” and said that “ liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God .” Hayes repeatedly denied that he had made the statement and accused reporters of " irresponsible journalism ", until an audio recording attesting to the statement was released.

The 33 categories judged in 2008 embraced news and feature writing ; artwork, cartoons and photography ; radio and TV reporting and interviewing ; business, international and sport, indigenous affairs, social commentary and investigative journalism.

Journalist Nick Davies criticized the PCC for failing to investigate the vast majority of complaints on technical grounds in his book Flat Earth News ( 2008 ), an expose of modern British newspaper journalism.

The Times said, in 2008, that " It is acknowledged as one of the leading centres for the teaching of journalism in Britain ".

Research in the School focuses on media ethics, international human rights, peace journalism, the coverage of US / UK warfare, the diasporic media and literary journalism, with 70 % of the research output assessed in 2008 as ' internationally excellent ' or ' world leading '.

It won more than 50 collegiate journalism awards in the 2007 – 2008 school year.

In 2008, Frostrup received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from Nottingham Trent University in recognition of her contribution and commitment to journalism and broadcasting.

She resigned from her position in September 2008, months before the natural completion of her mandate, to return to her previous journalism career.

He has written four books, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference ( 2000 ), Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking ( 2005 ), Outliers: The Story of Success ( 2008 ), and What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures ( 2009 ), a collection of his journalism.

On October 6, 2008 Brown had teamed up with Barry Diller to launch The Daily Beast, an online news magazine that mixes original journalism with news aggregation.

* The Point is a magazine produced by Biola's journalism program that won the 2008 Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award, the highest honor for a collegiate magazine.

A June 2008 controversy over Jardin's deletion from public view all posts and links associated with sex blogger Violet Blue in the wake of a falling-out led to discussions about journalism ethics and standards and media transparency.

An integral part of the school's journalism program, The Herald was named the Best College Newspaper in its division for 2008 in the Michigan Collegiate Press Association Newspaper Contest.

The IFJ launched the Ethical Journalism Initiative in 2008, a global campaign to defend standards and to raise awareness of the importance of quality journalism.

In 2008 Verde was one of four newsmagazines awarded the Pacemaker award from the National Scholastic Press Association, considered to be the " Pulitzer Prizes of student journalism.