Article: Tabloid tip sheet has the fax: seven-month-old company lines up clients for hard-to-find headline service. (Industry R&D) (Special Report: Reality TV)

Seven-month-old company lines up clients for hard-to-find headline service

News directors and made-for-TV movie producers need longer scour the nation's newspapers, syndicated TV news magazines or The National Enquirer for tommorow's sensational story. Industry R&D, a Hollywood-based "clearing for the hard-to-find local headlines," is offering a fixed "tip sheet" that could become to tabliod news what McDonald's is to food.

Founded seven months ago by Tom Colbert, former story director for Hard Copy and 10-year news research veteran at KCBS-TV Los Angeles, Industry R&D serves as a middleman for more than 500 loca news sources-- TV, radio and print ...

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