It’s now official. Bill Shine, former Fox News executive, is the new White House Communications Director. It’s been all but a done deal for some time now, but any reporting of the new assignment ...
Nicole Hickl, an anchor at Sinclair’s KGBT in Harlingen, TX, has gone public with her battle against depression, something she has been dealing with since high school. She has always had an aversion to ...
An aerospace engineer and UCLA doctoral candidate who led a double life as a white nationalist has been exposed through the efforts of Pro Publica and the documentary series “Frontline.” What’s more, it was ...
A couple of “enterprising” types from News Press & Gazette’s KYMA in Yuma, AZ have been suspended and will undergo an internal investigation as the result of a misguided effort they mounted last week. ...
Working moms in newsrooms know this to be true – babysitters aren’t always available when breaking news calls or when you need to step into live event coverage because another reporter is sick. WXIA ...
The federally-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has been fined 100,000 rubles ($1,600) by a Moscow court for failing to comply with Russia’s foreign agents law. RFE/RL and Voice of America were named foreign agents ...
Because why in the world would you want kids to get into the habit of watching tv news? The classroom tv service provided by Houghton Mifflin actually had its last broadcast in May, at ...
Mary Snow, who spent more than a decade reporting for CNN, is now a polling analyst with the Quinnipiac University Poll. Her job will include providing analysis to the news media about Q-Poll findings ...
Funeral services for Tom Petner will be held later today, July 6th, at the Clayton & McGirr Funeral Home, 100 Elton-Adelphia Road (Route 524) in Freehold Township, NJ. A visitation will be held from 2:00 to ...
Victoria Warren, who spent 12 years as a field reporter at Sunbeam’s WHDH in Boston, MA has taken leave of the tv news business. Warren, who was a morning street reporter for the station, ...
Sometimes news is right under your nose. And when it hits you, you might want to spread the word. That’s why, from the beginning, NewsBlues has had an anonymous tipline. It’s untraceable and, if ...
Lupe Zapata, morning anchor on Nextar’s KMID-KPEJ for the past 15 months is leaving for parts unknown. Zapata joined the stations in 2015 as an MMJ. Today is his last day at the station ...
In a rare 180° turn, Mr. Trump this week reversed himself and ordered U-S flags to be lowered to half-staff “as a mark of solemn respect” for the four journalists and a newspaper sales ...
Pity poor Boris Epshteyn. The Sinclair ”chief political analyst” whose “must-run” segments on Sinclair local tv stations have heretofore been unrivalled in their banality, partisan incoherence and sheer lunacy has competition. Fox News “senior ...
It took three months to track down Jason Eric Bewley of Bryan, Texas, but the law finally caught up with him in Mecklenberg County (Charlotte) NC last week. And now he’ll face charges of ...
It’s been 10 years since Thomas Roberts last sat in an Atlanta tv studio. Until now. Roberts, who exited MSNBC last November, is coming to Meredith’s WGCL as the stations new evening anchor. He’s ...
After decades, you unceremoniously dump your still-popular anchor, who only too happily shares the method of her dumping with the public. Three former staffers sue you for discrimination, and share juicy stories of your ...
Tracy Clemons will debut next Monday as the new morning co-anchor at Tribune’s WGHP in Greensboro-High Point, NC. He’s coming to North Carolina from Houston, TX where most recently he was Press Secretary for ...
Another familiar face to Houston tv viewers will be disappearing and heading west. After 17 years, Rachel McNeill will be leaving her morning co-anchor slot at Graham Media’s KPRC and heading west to Arizona, ...
Amanda St. Hilaire has turned up at Tribune’s WITI in Milwaukee, Wisc. as an investigative reporter. Until recently, St. Hilaire was a weekend anchor-investigative reporter at Nexstar’s WHTM in Harrisburg, PA where she was ...
Belén Gómez-Jordana will be a charter member of the new Cox’s Telemundo Noticias Charlotte news team in Charlotte. She will continue in her role as an MMJ. Most recently, she was at Univision 40 ...
Minneapolis Fox duopoly KMSP-WFTC is expanding daily news production and will soon be pumping out a whopping 11 hours of local news, five days a week. Tim Blotz and Naomi Pescovitz have gotten the ...
Former Fox News host Eric Bolling has a new show called “America” on something called CRTV (Conservative Review TV) and he’d like more people to know about it. So he is hitting the road ...
Lisa Vaughn said her goodbyes to Fox O&O KRIV in Houston and her audience back in April two years after she arrived at the station from West Palm Beach, FL. And while most of ...
A faithful correspondent brings up a good grammar point and one worth exploring today. She writes: “The legislature made *their* voices heard.” or The city council was busy last night. *They* passed several new ...
Well, we knew it was just a matter of time didn’t we? From the day Brian Ross was handed a month-long suspension by the bosses at ABC News, the clock was ticking on the ...
You’d think that four days after the fatal newsroom shootings at a Maryland newspaper, people would exercise more caution and think about what they are about to say before shooting off their bazoo. In ...
The longer the Sinclair-Tribune deal drags on, the more that competitors and public-interest groups are picking up on some of the games the folks at Sinclair HQ in Hunt Valley, MD are playing to ...
A month and a half ago, veteran Bay area reporter Jonathan Bloom announced his departure from Disney’s KGO after 7 years, with no immediate announcement as to his destination. At the end of last ...
Honestly, we can’t help but be a bit mystified at the latest ABC News image campaign. Much as we like John Goodman, we can’t quite get a handle on his presence, reading tongue-in-cheek lines ...
Kris Radcliffe is the new evening anchor at Tegna’s KCEN in Waco, TX. Radcliffe started at the station 16 years ago as a weekend sports anchor and moved up over the years to his ...
Jeff Bardach is leaving Griffin Communication’s KOTV in Tulsa, OK. Todd Spessard, Griffin’s VP of Content, explained that Bardach is moving home to help with family issues. He’s been ND here for just over a ...
Oscar Garcia is leaving Tegna’s KIII in Corpus Christi. TX after two years as news director. Oscar previously worked at KFOX in El Paso as an executive producer for almost six years. He also worked for four years ...
No, she wasn’t being chased out the door. Scripps wanted to keep weekend anchor Kim Tobin in her chair at KNXV in Phoenix. She had other ideas and is heading to Los Angeles instead. ...
Sam Eaton has left Gray’s KOSA in Odessa, TX after a year in the news director chair. He’s also been an ND for WRBL in Columbus, GA, and has worked in Charlotte, Kansas City, Columbia, SC, ...
It appears that veteran broadcaster Bob Sullivan has exited Tegna, where he was the Senior Vice President/Programming for a little over three years.. His Linkedin page says, as of June, 2018, he is the GM ...
Dorian Craft is joining Tegna’s KTHV in Little Rock, AR and a sports anchor. The Kentucky native is coming from the SEC Network and Cordillera’s WLEX in Lexington, KY where she held down simultaneous ...
We’re a few months behind in reporting that Kevin Stanfield is the new ND for Cordillera Communications’ KXLF/KBZK duopoly in Butte, MT. He’s also the evening anchor and has been at the station since January. His ...
Here’s a quiz to start today’s lesson. What’s wrong with this sentence? >Kraus and a pack of reporters seemingly ambushed the mother and child at the airport, where they were met and escorted out ...
Nexstar’s KRQE in Albuquerque, NM canceled Sunday night’s 10 PM news after a stranger somehow got into the building, walked onto the news set and sat down, refusing to leave. According to the Albuquerque ...
Former WKYC anchor-commentator and longtime Cleveland journalist Dick Feagler has died, according to several sources. Feagler also was a lead columnist for The Plain Dealer. He famously wrote about simpler times in a classic ...
Tom Petner died over the weekend. His daughter posted the news on social media Sunday. “My dad had a great passion for television news and technology. He was a successful newsroom manager who made ...
Teansie Garfield is the new general manager for Sinclair’s KRCR/KRVU/KUCO/KKTF in Chico-Redding, CA and KAEF/KECA/KEUV in Eureka, CA. That’s a handful, even in a couple of small markets. For the past year, she’s been ...
Evidently the reason that Taryn Hatcher couldn’t talk about her new job upon her departure from Hawaii News Now last week is that the wound was still a bit raw for the woman she ...
Former WILX news director Kevin Ragan is a stroke .survivor 18 months ago, Ragan was on the job at the Gray-owned Lansing, MI tv station where one minute he was in a meeting and ...
Jay Howell is the new vice-president and general manager for CBS–owned KDKA/WPCW and CBSPittsburgh.com. Howell, currently VP and general manager of sister stations KOVR-KMAX in Sacramento, starts later this month. He succeeds Chris Pike, ...
KATU reporter Genevieve Reaume had to cut her live shot at an “Abolish ICE” rally when a moron started harassing her during her hit. You can see on Reaume’s Facebook posting how the woman ...
Eric Valadez has been named the new director of content for Tegna’s KUSA in Denver, CO. It’s a new title and it means Valadez not only will oversee the station’s newscasts, but also will ...
Telemundo kept it under wraps as long as it could, but just days before she showed up on the air, news leaked that former Univision anchor legend María Elena Salinas would be a part ...
Last week we reported that MSNBC was looking for a new EP to help create a new weekend morning program that they hope will knock your socks off. But where would it go? In ...
As “The CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor” continues to languish in the ratings game, three more staffers were promoted to try and fix things. Molly Kordares and Alturo Rhymes will join the newscast’s ...
Starting today, if Rockford Illinois morning tv viewers are looking for Christie Nicks, they’ll have to check the cop shop. Nicks has signed off Nexstar-operated WTVO to take a job as the public information ...
NEWS VET PROMOTED IN ST. JOE Veteran newsman Jerry Howard has been promoted to news director for KNPN/KNPG/KCJO-TV in St. Joseph, MO, a cluster of stations owned by News Press and Gazette. More in this item ...
Kena Vernon joins AccuWeather as a New York-based reporter. She was previously an MMJ at News 12 in Brooklyn. In 2016, while she was covering a fatal shooting by an off-duty NYPD officer, she ...
Police still aren’t freely sharing his name, but the suspect in the murderous Capital Gazette newsroom rampage in Annapolis, MD is evidently a person with a long acrimonious history with the paper. Jarrod Ramos ...
Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson James Schwab opened up to “CBS This Morning” about why he abruptly resigned in March. But his interview was crashed by agents from the Department of Homeland ...
Bruce Turkel, a Miami ad man who was a regular face on Fox News over the years, took himself off the Fox air this week, expressing his disgust with the network’s immigration coverage. Turkel ...
Once Disney sells its 22 regional sports, the path is clear for the company to proceed with its plans to purchase the bulk of 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets. The DOJ antitrust division set ...
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman looked up from composing one of his blistering posts about the sad state of local radio and noted that Deb Monroe, news director at News-Press and Gazette’s KION-Telemundo operation ...
MSNBC has put up a job listing looking for a weekend AM EP. “The Executive Producer will supervise and oversee the editorial vision of a new morning show,” the job posting reads. For the ...
Jared Hoffa, a former producer of WLS’s “Windy City Live,” has jumped into new media with two feet, creating “Gaming Under the Influence,” which we are told is the first interactive live-streaming game show ...
We really thought this silly contempt of court thing lodged against KWWL reporter Elizabeth Amanieh over a year ago was over and done with. But no, the case, in which Amanieh is charged with ...
All of the gas expelled this week as conservative bloviators waxed indignant over the ejection of Sarah Sanders and company from a Virginia restaurant nagged on us until we were reminded that…. Back in ...
A NewsBlueser notes that “CBS Evening News” ratings last week were down 17% in the demo. Isn’t that the target the new leadership was supposed to be adept at reaching? We’re just asking <<<>>> ...
Next week marks six months since Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie were teamed up to host the “Today Show” following the abrupt dismissal of Matt Lauer. “We’re falling into a rhythm,” Kotb said. “We ...
Sometimes news is right under your nose. And when it hits you, you might want to spread the word. That’s why, from the beginning, NewsBlues has had an anonymous tipline. It’s untraceable and, if ...
Lex Haris, the former head of “CNN Investigates” is now the interim head of CBSNews.com. His appointment was made without fanfare in an internal memo announcing six new job appointments. Haris was one of ...
Jerry Post spent more than 25 years in the news business, 20 of them at Morgan Murphy’s KXLY in Spokane, WA. But last October, he left his job as news director to head in ...
Newly-appointed Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott summoned her primetime entertainment show producers to a meeting during which she expressed, by way of scripted comments, her and the Murdochs’ displeasure over some of the more ...
Back in December we told you about a federal sexual harassment lawsuit that Jaclyn Mason, Richelle Meiss and Rebecca Zak brought against Sinclair, along with its digital comedy venture Circa Laughs, Medio Pictures Partners, ...
Just two days after it was announced, it already feels like the Gray-Raycom merger is further down the road than the Sinclair-Tribune deal is after more than a year. But then Gray and Raycom, ...
There is no doubt that Bill Shine will fit like a glove in this White House. Shine, the former Fox News executive who was Roger Ailes’ right-hand man knows how to deal with a ...
The long-awaited AT&T-Time Warner merger is complete And the CEO of the newly-dubbed WarnerMedia, of which CNN is a major component, is showing up at various company centers to conduct “Get to to know ...
On the day that a federal judge gave the Trump Administration 30 days to reunite migrant families who were separated at the border, “CBS This Morning” aired footage inside a New York facility housing ...
WANE weekend anchor Rod Hissong says his contract is up so he’s stepping down and, presumably, out of the business.. “This will be my final newscast at NewsChannel 15 where I spent 8 years,” ...
Sarah Phinney is the new morning traffic anchor-reporter for Scripps’ WFTX in Tampa, FL. She’s forsaking the sun and fun of Lake Erie for the sun and fun of the Gulf of Mexico, as ...
Actor and TV personality, Héctor Sandarti, joins Telemundo‘s “Un Nuevo Día” as co-host of the daily morning show, beginning this Friday. This is a new role for Sandarti, who spent the past 25 years ...
A recent RTDNA-Hofstra study showed the percentage of people of color in newsrooms has surpassed a record previously set in 2001. That’s the good news. The more sobering news is that minority representation in ...
Three weeks after he celebrated his impending move to the Washington, DC area – but just couldn’t say exactly where, we now know where former WTIC co-anchor Lorenzo Hall is ending up. He’s traded ...
1948 was pretty much a landmark year in television. It was when the fledgling medium really started to become widely available throughout much of the country. The latest to observe 70 years on the ...
If you have mastered “affect/effect,” Mrs. B salutes you. If you haven’t, this lesson is for you. The verb “affect” means to change, to influence, to stir emotions, to touch, or to move. >How ...
As we explained yesterday, Gray and Raycom don’t seem to be playing any three-card monte in their proposed corporate pairing. While on the way to completing their $3.8 billion deal, they have already announced ...
We’re hearing from Houston blogger Mike McGuff that the job posting for the traffic reporter position at Tegna’s KHOU is creating some buzz in the market – maybe some of it a nervous buzz. ...
If, as Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David used to tell us constantly, Seinfeld’s sitcom was a program about nothing, then Fox News reporter Doug McKelway’s recent two days stationed outside the Red Hen restaurant ...
We’d really like it if our friends in the MEED-ja (as a former colleague pronounced it) would please repeatedly take note that what happened over the weekend at the Red Hen was a case ...
From 2004 to 2014, JB Bauersfeld held forth at Gray’s WIBW in Topeka, KS, starting out as a photographer and eventually becoming sports director. Then one day, he felt the irresistible pull of Hollywood. ...
A Dallas businessman, who once sought his 15 minutes as a frequent business analyst guest on Fox News’ concurrent to its fanciful Seth Rich conspiracy coverage, is now suing NPR and reporter David Folkenflik. ...
Former White House press secretary and professional punching bag Sean Spicer is trying out a new career. Since no one so far has been willing to step up and make Spicer a lucrative offer ...
Michele Perez Exner, a former Marine Corps PA exec and press secretary for Sen Tim Scott, will join CBS News July 5 as communications director for the DC bureau and “Face the Nation.” She ...
Reporter Mike Sullivan joins Tribune’s WXIN in Indianapolis, IN. He most likely won’t have to get used to a bunch of new corporate officers since he’s coming from Sinclair’s Dayton, OH duopoly WKEF-WRGT, just ...
Nolan Crane is headed for Raycom’s WAFF in Huntsville, AL as the station’s new weekend anchor-reporter. He’s coming from Citadel’s KLKN in Lincoln, Nebraska, where, for the past 5+ years, he held down morning ...
About 15% of the editorial staff at Univision’s Gizmodo division are getting pink-slipped through buy-outs as the troubled media company continues to try an achieve something approaching fiscal health. The cuts largely affect staffers ...
Just leave it right here on the tipline. It’s anonymous. It’s untraceable. And it’s a way to get spread the word. Check out the right hand column right under the video of the day. ...
Collin Dorsey recently signed on as an anchor at Quincy Media’s KWWL in Waterloo, IA. He previously was at Wheeler Broadcasting’s WSIL in Carbondale, IL, where he started as a reporter and eventually became ...
And now we have the THIRD largest local television station owner in the process of being created. Gray Television is combining with Raycom Media, because, as Sinclair insists, this is how you save local ...
One of the largest market news director openings on our list has been filled today. Jeff Harris is headed to Chicago as news director for CBS’s WBBM. Jeff is currently the ND for Scripps’ WEWS in Cleveland, ...
Tegna’s graphics package got another unveiling, this time at the group’s KREM in Spokane, WA, which also got a news set refresher. It’s an 11-year-old set that has gotten numerous facelifts over the years, ...
