• The Wrap, Tuesday, March 29, 2011 3:15 PM

Probably no big surprise, but 2011's unusually large share of major global disasters is already "wreaking havoc on the already-skeletal budgets of cable and broadcast news organizations," with many having already spent their annual budget in the first three months of the year, according to The Wrap.

Find more of the particulars in this story, such as a handy-dandy chart spelling out some of the numbers involved -- including the "$1.5 million one network said it spent covering Japan's earthquake/tsunami in a single day."

Read the whole story at The Wrap »