Performance artist/conspiracy fabricator Alex Jones is turning to the White House to try and get him and his many iterations from InfoWars to the Alex Jones Page restored to social media platforms. “Mr. President, ...
They just often turn to commentary. Cleveland hasn’t really had one since the late Dick Feagler, so Tegna’s WKYC is bringing Leon Bibb back to the station, where he was a fixture in the ...
ABC News has a name and a logo for its soon-to-be-unveiled third hour of “Good Morning America.” “GMA Day” will eventually replace “The Chew” at 1 PM weekdays. WHEN that happens is still a ...
Word out of Texas says KXAS VP/News Mark Ginther has left the Dallas station. The staff learned of Ginther’s departure in a meeting with the general manager today. He’s been the news director for this ...
While industry lobbyist/FCC chair Ajit Pai maintains he hasn’t been braced by the White House over his decision to consign the Sinclair-Tribune merge deal to a certain death via administrative review, we wonder if ...
After a year in the job, Julie Wolfe is leaving her slot as the number two at Atlanta’s WXIA to become the top dog at Tegna sister station WHAS in Louisville. She’d been with ...
Last May, we told you the story of former NESN sports videographer John Martin’s battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS. Now he’s written a book about his 19 years behind the scenes of ...
The Scripps Howard Foundation is sending $3 million to the University of Maryland and Arizona State University to establish two “Howard Centers” that will train the next generation of investigative reporters. “In today’s world ...
Yesterday we told you about a Fox News contributor’s pretty terrific idea of how to stop the circus atmosphere at Mr. Trump’s grievance rallies by taking the press out of the line of fire ...
A Chicago viewer with far too much time on his hands recently wrote to Tribune’s WGN demanding that anchors stop thanking reporters who are live in the field after they finish. The morning crew ...
Julie Gargotta is now an anchor/reporter at Spectrum’s CENTRAL FLORIDA NEWS 13. Gargotta was an MMJ when she first arrived at CENTRAL FLORIDA NEWS 13 late in 2014. She previously worked in both print ...
Nothing in Amy Klaufeldt’s 20+ years in television news could have prepared her for the unexpected guest in her garage over the weekend. The WOFL anchor had a bear break into her suburban Orlando ...
Somewhere, way back there in middle school, you probably had a teacher explain the difference between “lie” and “lay,” but it’s kind of fuzzy now. And you hear them misused so much, you may ...
How many #MAGA hats and “Fake News” t-shirts would the Newseum have to sell to become solvent? Well, we’ll never really know now that the perpetually financially-challenged organization has decided to pull its ill-advised ...
The outside lawyers hired to investigate charges against harassment at CBS News plan to wrap things up before the month is out. And Jeff Fager, the “60 Minutes” EP who also is under investigation ...
Fox News was coasting through another one of its huffing and puffing segments about big, bad Jim Acosta of CNN, when an actual thought popped up. “We should stop having reporters at those Trump ...
Nichole Cyprian is the next news director for Raycom’s WALB in Albany, GA. It’s a promotion for Nichole, who’s been the Assistant ND for the past year. More from GM Jim Wilcox in this staff memo. ...
Des Moines sportscaster Andy Garman made good on his promise to leave the business, signing off last week from Hearst’s KCCI . Profuse thanks and platitudes marked his final on-air appearance. “Sitting in this ...
Scripps’ KGUN is in the market for a new chief meteorologist with the Friday’s departure of Erin Christiansen after 12 years in the post. She’s headed for Florida’s Atlantic coast and Sinclair’s WPEC in ...
Well here’s one way to get around visually-challenging phone interviews. It’s not perfect, but when NBC’s Lester Holt recently did a phone interview with Eric Riddick, who’s been jailed for 26 years for a ...
Spectrum’s NY1 in New York City has launched a political podcast. “Off Topic on Politics” is hosted by city hall and political reporter Grace Rauh. Statehouse reporter Zack Fink and Noticias NY1 Host of ...
Anna Laurel will join McKinnon Broadcasting’s KUSI NEWS in San Diego California on September 10, 2018. She’ll be the new evening anchor. And dammit, everybody’s thrilled. “KUSI is thrilled to have Anna Laurel join ...
Patrick Chalvire is the newly-minted weekday sports anchor at Sinclair’s KFOX in El Paso, TX. He was hired to start sports coverage for the station’s 9 pm newscast. He left the weekend anchor desk ...
Jessica Bobula returns to Raycom Media as the new Assistant News Director for WIS in Columbia, SC. Jessica moves from Tegna’s KXTV in Sacramento, CA where she was executive producer. She previously worked as a producer for KOLD/KMSB, the Raycom ...
Awhile back, Elizabeth Pace was hired as an MMJ at Nexstar’s KLBK in Lubbock, TX and soon found herself promoted to weekend evening anchor/reporter at the station in March of last year. Now she’s ...
It just seems to get worse. A WXYZ camera captured images of a man who attacked a WWJ radio news reporter and WXYZ reporter Nia Harden and photojournalist Mike Krotche. The crews were doing ...
Cox Media surprised everyone recently when it announced that its 14 TV stations were on the block. Now another small broadcast company is putting up the “For Sale” sign. St. Paul, Minn.-based Cordillera Communications, ...
Nexstar, which has already achieved the prized “scale” and evidently wants more, announced the purchase of two more television stations. It’s buying KRBK, the FOX affiliate serving Springfield, Missouri from KRBK LLC, and WHDF, ...
Following news of a Department of Justice probe of allegations that Sinclair and Tribune may have colluded to fix ad prices, several class action lawsuits have sprung up. Sinclair, Tribune and six other large ...
It now appears that CBS Board members knew several months ago of an investigation by police in Los Angeles into an alleged sexual assault back in the 80’s by CEO Les Moonves. No charges ...
Having your grief flung back in your face by a scurrilous report that had to be retracted as false by its publisher is evidently not enough. Fox News and, particularly conspiracy theorist Sean Hannity, ...
Drew Wilder joined the NBC News Channel in Washington DC this summer as a freelance reporter, covering the White House and the Capitol. For nearly three years, Wilder was evening news anchor at Raycom’s ...
Next Thursday, CBS O&O WJZ in Baltimore, MD will show off their new news set, more than likely to closely emulate sets already rolled out by other CBS O&Os like KCBS, WCBS and WBBM. ...
Nexstar’s KSNT sports director Matt Gasper (left) is leaving the Topeka, KS station. “Signing off from KSNT News! Thanks everybody,” read his Twitter message. So is sports reporter and weekend anchor Jonathan Polasek, (right) who ...
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After three years as a bureau reporter for Gray Television and the Lilly Group, reporter Kellie Meyer evidently reached a crossroads in her life. And she decided to take the road not taken. Meyer ...
Way back in June we told you that longtime Palm Springs anchor Janet Zappala was stepping down from her evening anchor chores at Entravision’s KMIT – part of an overall cost-cutting move – but ...
We reported earlier this week that reporter Ann Sterling signed off Monday from Scripps’ WTMJ in Milwaukee, with no destination mentioned. She’s staying in the Scripps family, for better or worse, and heading back ...
Les Moonves’ hold on his CEO position at CBS seems to be getting more tenuous every day. Late Wednesday, Moonves stepped down from the Anita Hill-led “Commission on Eliminating Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality ...
The reporting of Bay Area blogger Rich Lieberman on last week’s botched coverage by KTVU of the fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Nia Wilson has evidently raised the ire of veteran station anchor Pam Cook. ...
CBSN Local is coming toward the end of the year, and while, as we told you yesterday, Cox-owned WSB may have beat them to the punch, they plan to make a splash. WCBS will ...
So much for the notion of transparency – in an organization that insists on it in others. The former managing editor of Snopes.com, the fact-checking website, says she still doesn’t know why she was ...
Veteran CNN journalist Isha Sesay, who worked as the newsreader on “Anderson Cooper 360,” hosted a show on HLN, and most recently served as the co-anchor of “CNN Newsroom: Los Angeles,” is out the ...
Faran Fronczak joins Tegna’s WZZM in Grand Rapids, MI as weekday AM anchor. Fronczak previously worked at Nexstar’s KTSM in El Paso TX where she was the weekday afternoon and evening anchor for a ...
The Directors Guild has withdrawn its representation of the eight employees it had represented at Sinclair’s WJLA in Washington, DC. Such a move is usually a prelude to a decertification vote by the affected ...
A new look has come to “KOTA Territory News” and sister station KEVN in Rapid City, SD. Gray, which also owns KSFY in Sioux Falls and whose purchase of KDLT in the same market ...
Vanessa Paige started at Little Rock’s KTHV this week as a reporter. Paige told anyone who would look it up on Facebook that she was “looking forward to reporting from Little Rock.” Paige comes ...
Ashley Kirklen is the newest anchor/reporter at Hearst’s WLWT in Cincinnati, OH. Kirklen moves up from Sinclair’s WGXA in Macon, Ga. where for the past three years she served as morning anchor and reporter. ...
We heard that more than one time as we grew up. We never complied. But then we are not Ashley Doerzbacher of Sinclair-operated WHAM in Rochester , NY. While doing a live shot about ...
Mrs. B continues her campaign for the importance of spelling in TV news. Several sound-alike “c” words call out for attention today: CAPITOL (with an “o”) is both the national and the state building. ...
Interesting argument for a revenue grab: A Little Rock broadcaster has filed an appeal that says its free-speech rights were violated when a judge barred it from airing ads that criticized an Arkansas Supreme ...
Facebook would like to be your principal news source, but until it can clean up the army of “fake news” trolls – mainly originating in Eastern Europe, it really cannot be trusted for anything ...
After 15 years of anchoring WCPO’s “Good Morning Tri-State”, Kathrine Nero was unceremoniously kicked to the curb by the Cincinnati Scripps flagship after her program Monday. In total, she had spent 20 years at ...
A few weeks back, News-Press and Gazette’s Yuma, AZ station KYMA found itself embroiled in controversy when three on-air newsers were busted trying to infiltrate a Border Patrol facility that was housing detained immigrants. ...
You Roku, Amazon Fire and Apple TV users can now take in two hours of the “Channel 2 Action News” morning program. Why you would do that is your call. All you need is ...
Briona Arradondo joins the team at Fox-owned WTVT in Tampa, FL as a general assignment reporter. She spent more than three years at Meredith’s WSMV in Nashville where she also was a general assignment ...
Dallas sportscaster Dale Hansen is a national treasure. We are frequently reminded of that when one of his local sports commentaries on Tegna’s WFAA bursts into the national conscience. His latest commentary aimed squarely ...
It was a hot August night back in 1998 – before Facebook, before Twitter, before the Internet became inextricably bound to us every day, that NewsBlues was born. It was during an evening stroll ...
Incurable political enthusiast Chance Seales (that’s what it says here) is promoted to host of “The Why” Newsy’s nightly news program. The Scripps national news program is based in Washington DC. Seales has been ...
Nexstar has moved its Mobile, AL station WKRG to a temporary set, in preparation for new set. They’d like you all to take note. Now the guessing game begins, according to our NewsBlues correspondents. ...
Just days after a published report detailing connections between Chicago radio host Maze Jackson (on the left) and a political consultant working for the Bruce Rauner’s re-election, Jackson’s co-host, former WLS political reporter Charles ...
From the beginning, NewsBlues has had an anonymous tipline. It’s a way for you to let us know what it happening in your newsroom, in your market, in your world. It’s untraceable and, if ...
Sarah Blake Morgan has moved on to new media and a bigger platform as national correspondent for Facebook Watch Morgan had been an MMJ at Raycom’s WBTV in Charlotte, NC. Before Charlotte, the Florida ...
Madison Carter gets her winter wardrobe out of storage and makes a big move to Scripps’ WKBW in Buffalo as the station’s newest anchor/reporter. It’s a return to northern climes for Carter, who graduated ...
Reports late yesterday indicated that CBS CEO Les Moonves it thinking about stepping aside while an internal investigation of misconduct by him and the network’s overall culture is undertaken, even as the CBS board ...
Lost in all the breathless reporting about Ronan Farrow’s “New Yorker” story of sexual shenanigans during the Les Moonves era at CBS is the harsh light his story turns on to former CBS News ...
If you’re keeping score, Sinclair Broadcast Group to date has concocted four “must-run” segments pushing for a quick, question-free confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the United State Supreme Court. Kavanaugh was nominated to the ...
The single most chilling quote we got from a “Politico” piece on the futility of John Kelly’s tenure as White House Chief of staff “[The President] comes down for the day, and whatever he ...
Remember when Rudy Guiliani was coherent? Well….compared to recently anyway. Even Fox News is getting a little irritated with his ramblings, walkbacks, flip-flops and sheer nonsense. Guiliani called in to “Outnumbered” Monday afternoon to ...
Let’s have a round of applause for KDFW sportscaster Mike Doocy. In an age when far too many local sportscasters happily shed any pretense of journalistic responsibility to shamelessly shill for the local sports ...
After barely a year at Scripps’ WTMJ in Milwaukee, meteorologist Josh Wurster is putting Wisconsin in the rearview mirror and heading for Boston and Sunbeam’s WHDH. He let Twitter spread the news: Exciting news ...
In another departure from the Scripps station, reporter Ann Sterling said on Facebook Monday that it was her last day at WTMJ. The Florida native didn’t detail where she’s heading, but alluded to her ...
Reports of conspiracy theorist/performance artist Alex Jones’ disappearance from social media are premature at best, crappy journalism at worst. We heard prior to the weekend that Facebook had courageously moved Jones off the social ...
Hearst, which already owns WMTW in Portland, ME, announced Monday that it is buying locally-owned WPXT, a CW affiliate. The purchase price is none of your damned business. Hearst has owned WMTW since 2004, ...
“Dr. Phil” is moving to 3 pm to make way for KYW’s new 4 pm hour starting next Monday. The launch will leave WTXF, the Fox O&O as the only station in the market ...
Four months after she left ABC News as a producer/reporter for the investigative unit, Stephanie Zimmerman is returning to the Chicago Sun-Times next month. Zimmerman left the Sun-Times back in 2012 to join ABC ...
Hometown girl Kayla Stewart has moved into the weekend anchor slot at Quincy Media’s WPTA in Ft. Wayne, IN She came aboard two years ago as an intern. A year later, she became an ...
Mrs. B can hear the moans about to leave your lips when she tells you spelling continues to be a critical issue in TV news. Not only can a misspelled word trip up the ...
The three most terrifying words a studio or network executive can hear today: “Ronan Farrow called.” He’s done it again with another “New Yorker” piece about sexual misconduct in high media places. This time ...
The latest developments in the matter of the quickly-departed and not-missed-at-all Kimberly Guilfoyle is that the former Fox News anchor perhaps identified a little TOO closely with her mentor Roger Ailes. Guilfoyle’s exit was ...
WRAL anchor Jeff Hogan was injured in a body-surfing accident on the North Carolina coast this weekend. According to a news report from WRAL in Raleigh, the anchor had to be rescued and is ...
Bad news travels fast. The truth takes a little longer. That’s today’s journalism lesson, courtesy of a viral video from a July 23rd Cubs-Cardinals game. You’ve seen it. If you haven’t or need a ...
Scott Pickey returns to a newsroom as the next ND for Gray’s KOSA in Odessa, TX. Scott most recently was the ND for WOAY in Oak Hill/Beckley, WV. He’s been an ND in Wilmington, NC, El Paso, ...
Several time news director B.J. Finnell returns to Hartford as the Director of Brand and Creative Development for Tribune’s WTIC. He’s a former ND at WVIT in Hartford as well as two stations in Providence. For the ...
Self-described weather geek Samantha Roberts wrapped up her morning assignment at Raycom’s WOIO in Cleveland and today shows up beginning at 4 PM, sharing the weather set with chief meteorologist Jason Nicholas. She shared ...
Sinclair’s KRCR in Redding went off air last week as anchors were forced to evacuate their studio live on air while they reported on an approaching wildfire “Right now, we are being evacuated,” anchor ...
Sam Singal, executive producer for “NBC Nightly News” since September 2015 has stepped down to “consider other options” at NBC News. Uh-oh. He came to the program along with anchor Lester Holt, from the ...
If your show is fronted by the Three Dumbest People on Television, and its spinoff has two runner-ups, it stands to reason that your staff is not going to set the world on fire ...
There’s a bit of history being made in the Buffalo market at Tegna’s WGRZ. Meteorologists Maria Genero and Heather Waldman are now sharing forecasting duties at 5, 5:30, 6, 10 and 11 p.m. following ...
After 19 years on the air covering MLB’s Philadelphia Phillies and holding down an anchor slot at the former Comcast SportsNet (now NBC SportsNet), Leslie Gudel seems to be enjoying the relatively anonymity of ...
Univision’s KMEX’s loss is Telemundo’s KVEA’s gain as Sandra O’Neill walks across a street in Los Angeles. She’s going from being a reporter to a weekend anchor slot. She’ll show up in that new ...
Clark Booth was a wordsmith who worked all forms of news media for more than a half century during what may now be seen as the Golden Age of the genre made his biggest ...
The Justice Department is investigating whether local television station owners including Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media violated antitrust laws, according to the Wall Street Journal. Investigators are examining whether local station owners coordinated ...
Wouldn’t it be nice to line Campbell Brown up in front of a camera and ask her to explain the continued presence of “InfoWars” on Facebook? Brown, the head of Facebook’s global news partnerships ...
Quincy Media’s WAOW in Wausau, WI has bagged itself a news director. Kevin Carpenter is leaving his post as director of digital operations at Disney’s WLS to take the job. Carpenter will be reunited ...
