A federal judge in New York brushed aside the motion by disgraced former FOX News anchor/reporter Ed Henry to dismiss allegations that he violated New York’s so-called “revenge porn” statute. The judge also ruled ...
Three decades of goodwill built up by Fred Cowgill may take a hit as a result of a legal action he’s undertaken. Cowgill, the longtime sportscaster at Hearst’s WLKY in Louisville, KY is suing ...
Pity poor Rupert Murdoch. Unlucky in love now that his fourth marriage to former model Jerry Hall (26 years his junior) is apparently over. And unlucky in the courts, where the 91-year-old media baron ...
Cable “newser” Newsmax went down to yet another defeat in its ongoing bid to get a lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems dismissed. Dominion brought the $1.6. billion lawsuit in response to Newsmax’s parroting of ...
In the Land of 10,000 Lakes, the Hennepin County Prosecutor would like KARE reporter Lou Raguse to talk on the record about his jailhouse interview with the suspect in a fatal road rage shooting ...
Former ABC News exec Michael Corn has had a lawsuit brought by a former news division producer tossed by a New York judge. Judge Barbara Jaffe ruled this week that the statute of limitations ...
With any luck, former KMOV (Gray) meteorologist Meghan Danahey will soon see her sex and age discrimination lawsuit against the St. Louis station being argued in a courtroom Danahey, now with Sinclair’s WLOS in ...
Former FOX News reporter/host Ed Henry has evidently decided to focus his litigation energies at his former employers. Henry, (who, to us, always looked like the kid in class who felt compelled to remind ...
It hasn’t been a good year for the folks at One America News, the 24/7 cable network for people who think Newsmax and Fox News are foam-at-the-mouth liberals. First they lost their principal underwriter ...
Former Tampa anchor Jane Monreal is piling on in her ongoing lawsuit against WFTX and Scripps, the Tampa, FL station’s owner. Monreal, who anchored the weeknight news and also did investigative reporting at the ...
If you’ve been keeping the popcorn handy waiting for the start of that $1.6 billion lawsuit being brought by Dominion Voting Systems against FOX News, put it back in storage for awhile. The trial ...
The News Guild, a union that represents journalists, and a Tegna shareholder have “serious concerns” about the company’s pending sale to Standard Media and are demanding a closer examination before the sale is completed. ...
When Laura Rogers departed the morning and midday chair at Gray’s WBKO in Bowling Green, KY back at the end of 2021, she expected to seamlessly glide into a job with the local Spectrum ...
Remember this job description from WITN in Greenville, N.C.? Well, it seems the HR caught on to the press it was getting for being utterly ridiculous and it’s been changed. The list of responsibilities ...
When you’ve spent close to three years going after a former employer for alleged discrimination and breach of contract, you really kind of hope that you will eventually get to court to try and ...
Dana Melancon, a former meteorologist for Sinclair’s KFDM in Beaumont, TX, is suing the station and parent company Sinclair Broadcast Group, claiming he was fired due to the color of his skin. Melancon worked ...
Brendan Higgins was a familiar and welcome face to Dallas tv viewers back when he was a morning anchor at KXAS for 12 years from 1998 until 2010 and again at KTVT from 2012 ...
FOX News now has company in defending itself against a lawsuit by election technology company Smartmatic. Smartmatic has added Newsmax and OAN to a massive defamation lawsuit that also includes as defendants some FOX ...
Don’t ask for any settlement details because it evidently is none of your damned business, but former WOI news director April Samp has dropped her gender discrimination lawsuit against the station and Tegna. Samp, ...
Kirstyn Crawford, who filed a lawsuit last month against ABC and Michael Corn, GMA’s former top producer, alleging that Corn sexually assaulted her during a trip to Los Angeles in 2015, now has filed ...
As onetime somebody Bill O’Reilly continues his struggle to sell tickets to his “One More Time” arena tour with Mr. Trump, his lawyers are busy trying to hush up his most well-known accuser. Andrea ...
Fox News Channel continues its attempts to wriggle out of a billion-dollar-plus defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems. The cable outfit claims its First Amendment rights would be stifled if Dominion is successful ...
It was almost a year ago, in May 2020, that Michael Dunston was cut loose by Meredith’s WGCL, it’s Atlanta revolving door. Dunston is coming back at the station, filing a lawsuit this week ...
Scripps-owned WTVR in Richmond, VA and reporter Jon Burkett are the targets of a defamation suit filed by Virginia Parole Board chair Tonya Chapman. In the $7 million lawsuit, Chapman contends two stories Burkett ...
Back in December 2019, we told you about the departure of news director April Samp from Tegna’s WOI in Des Moines, IA – OK, Ames, if you’re stickler for city of license. This past ...
Yes, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously against him but Byron Allen is still celebrating. According to the Los Angeles Times, the media mogul has ended his high-profile legal battle over alleged racism by ...
A federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump must face claims that he violated the First Amendment by revoking or threatening to revoke some journalists’ press credentials and national security clearances. PEN America, ...
Add CNN to the list of news organizations being sued by the Trump campaign. This latest lawsuit claims that a June 13, 2019 CNN.com opinion piece from Larry Noble is defamatory, because it claims ...
The Dave Crawley saga continues to wind its way through Western Pennsylvania courts. The veteran KDKA reporter (31 years) who has been MIA since he was injured in a stunt during Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers ...
Less than a week before a North Carolina judicial election, a Mecklenburg County judge went to court to block a tv news story that she believed would cause “irreparable harm” to her re-election. It ...
Breakin’ up is hard to do, and it often gets messy. Take the case of former KXAN investigative reporter Brian Collister. Collister recently filed two lawsuits claiming that two individuals connected with a local ...
Checkbook, please. More than a year and a half after now-former KSHB sports anchor Dee Jackson filed a race discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against the Kansas City Scripps station, a settlement has been reached. ...
A $400 million lawsuit that arose out of a Gayle King interview on “CBS This Morning” with two women who accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (at the right) of sexual assault has been ...
Fox News Channel continues to insist that, despite its prime-time circus performers insistent pushing of the debunked conspiracy theory about the murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, his parents have no case ...
Call it the largest $$$ settlement in the history of the National Labor Relations Board. In a backpay dispute battle involving union workers stretching back 16 years to 2003, CNN has agreed to fork ...
A lawsuit filed by Virginia state Sen. Joe Morrissey, against Scripps WTVR, columnist Mark Holmberg and other television station employees was dismissed in federal court last week. Morrissey’s lawsuit grew out of a Sept. ...
Nick Sandmann, the high school student who sued CNN over its coverage of an incident that went viral last year has settled with the news outlet. It is safe to say he got nowhere ...
It seems that Meredith and its Nashville station WSMV are in a full-on apology tour and throwing the station’s previous management under the bus in the process. The corporation has settled the age discrimination ...
Scott Steele, a former meteorologist for WTMJ in Milwaukee, WI., has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the station and station owner Scripps Media. Steele, who is joined by two other Jewish former employees, ...
And here we go again at “60 Minutes.” On Tuesday morning, lawyers filed a gender discrimination and retaliation complaint against the network on behalf of London-based “60 Minutes” associate producer Cassandra Vinograd, alleging that ...
CNN has finally thrown up its hands and fired Dewayne Walker, an Atlanta-based employee, over what the network claims was a “false accusation” that he was threatened by a CNN executive. We told you ...
CNBC reports NBCUniversal has received more than $1 billion in national advertising commitments for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the company said Tuesday. On a conference call with reporters Tuesday, executives said this ...
The other shoe finally dropped and still another harassment lawsuit at Fox News.. Britt McHenry, a host on Fox News‘ streaming service, Fox Nation, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit on Tuesday against the network ...
“The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s” Rodney Ho brings us an exclusive story in which DeWayne Walker, an Atlanta-based employee at CNN for 16 years, said he was verbally threatened with his life by a superior because ...
Just when it looked like another juicy age and gender discrimination tale was about to unfold…..someone caved. In this case, it was CBS, which came to a settlement agreement with Michele Gillen, an Emmy-winning ...
We still can’t figure out what the hell he thinks to gain from this. Jeremy Kappell, former Chief Meteorologist at Hubbard’s WHEC in Rochester, NY, is now suing Mayor Lovely Warren. Kappell, you’ll remember, ...
It’s getting a grimmer for suspended WFLD anchor Rafer Weigel. An Indiana judge granted an order of protection against Weigel, who’s been anchoring mornings at Fox-owned WFLD. As we reported a week ago, the ...
Back at the end of September, we told you the story of former Philadelphia anchor-reporter Dray Clark‘s two arrests on domestic abuse charges. We say “former” because Clark was dropped by NBCU’s WCAU shortly ...
Reginald Roundtree, former anchor at Tegna’s WTSP in Tampa, FL is suing his former employer, accusing the station and its parent company of firing him in retaliation for raising an age discrimination complaint. The ...
Basing the threat of a lawsuit on the work of self-styled “guerilla journalist” James O’Keefe and his repeatedly debunked and laughably-named Project Veritas can be pretty risky business. But it is business as usual ...
The family of former WVUE news anchor Nancy Parker, (seen here in happier times) who died in an August plane crash in New Orleans, has filed suit against the owner of the plane and ...
Disgraced “CBS This Morning” host Charlie Rose won a court battle last week, when a civil claim that Rose retaliated against three women who complained about his alleged sexual harassment was tossed. New York ...
Almost a year after CBS News settled a trio of sexual harassment claims against Charlie Rose, the former “CBS This Morning” co-host is being sued again. This time around, it’s makeup artist Gina Riggi, ...
As if AT&T didn’t have enough headaches with the DirecTV mass subscriber exodus as the result of the long blackout of CBS o&os and Nexstar stations, now the media giant is accused of juicing ...
A federal appeals court has ruled Fox News must face a lawsuit by the parents of Seth Rich whose unsolved 2016 murder touched off a flurry of right-wing conspiracy theories. Those theories were encouraged, ...
Justin Fairfax, the lieutenant governor of Virginia, filed a $400 million defamation lawsuit against CBS on Thursday, five months after the network aired two interviews with women who accused him of sexual assault. In ...
A Philadelphia news anchor has sued Facebook, Reddit, and the image repository Imgur, the animated GIF site Giphy, and the porn site XNXX, alongside 10 other operators of unnamed sites after a convenience store ...
In yet another example of why non-compete clauses are simply ridiculous, a former Knoxville, TN tv chief meteorologist is suing the television station that DUMPED him back in April because it is enforcing a ...
Gray’s WDBJ in Roanoke, VA is defending a lawsuit filed by the only survivor of the 2015 on-air shooting that claimed the life of a reporter and cameraman. The suit, filed in Franklin County ...
And the litigation continues…. Two former on-air journalists at NY1 charged in a new lawsuit this week that getting pregnant was a career ender at the 24-hour news network. Thalia Perez and Michelle Greenstein ...
WBBH in Ft. Myers, FL, and a former investigative reporter for the station, have come out on top in a more-than-two-year-long civil libel lawsuit filed by former 20th Judicial Circuit State Attorney Stephen Russell. ...
After two years of waging an international court case against revenge porn, former WPXI (Pittsburgh) news anchor Darieth Chisolm can claim victory. Chisolm’s ex-boyfriend, Donovan Powell of Jamaica pleaded guilty in Jamaican court to ...
We’ve been following the story of veteran KDKA reporter Dave Crawley’s long ordeal after an accident he suffered while on assignment for the station. It was in August of 2017 during the Three River ...
If you didn’t seen this one coming when he was dumped by Meredith’s WGCL last April, you probably just weren’t paying close enough attention. Former chief meteorologist Paul Ossman is suing the station claiming ...
Back in February, we told you about former Columbus and Cleveland tv reporter John Damschroder’s lawsuit against the state of Ohio’s pension fund system, seeking details the release of details for one of the ...
Laurie Luhn, the former Fox News staffer who made sexual abuse allegations against Roger Ailes, has dropped a $750 million lawsuit against Showtime over the forthcoming miniseries “Loudest Voice.” That lawsuit accused Showtime and ...
We’ve been following the winding legal saga of former KSHB reporter Lisa Benson Cooper who last February successfully won part of a federal lawsuit she brought against the station. The saga took another recent ...
The court papers were filed earlier this year. Now, Marshall Broadcasting Group has filed a complaint with the FCC against Nexstar. Both the court papers and the FCC complaint accuse Nexstar of breach of ...
One-time relevant journalist Sharyl Atkisson found her bid to sue the Obama Administration over alleged illegal surveillance rebuffed once again. Atkisson, who once worked for CBS but now toils away for Sinclair Broadcast‘s, had ...
A former news producer at Nexstar’s WTNH in Hartford-New Haven, CT. is suing the Irving, Texas-based parent company, alleging it wrongly fired him after three women complained to management about his alleged sexual misconduct. ...
Back in 2016, Laurie Luhn, a former Fox News booker, levelled sexual harassment allegations against Roger Ailes. Now, she’s suing the network and CEO Suzanne Scott. The interesting twist here is that Luhn is ...
Why do you have to go the extra mile to verify the information you’re about to put on the air? After three years of winding through the courts, Ohio’s Supreme Court will hear arguments ...
Over in Ohio freelance television and print news reporter Derek Myers had his lawyers file a federal civil rights complaint in the United States Federal Court against the Village of New Holland (a stone’s ...
Back in January, when we first reported on the firing of Rochester, NY meteorologist Jeremy Kappell by management at Hubbard’s WHEC, we kinda figured we’d end up here. Kappell was bounced for allegedly uttering ...
Marshall Broadcasting Group the owner of three Fox affiliates in Odessa, Texas; Shreveport, La.; and Davenport, Iowa is suing Irving, TX-based Nexstar Media Group, accusing the company of sabotaging Marshall’s efforts to operate independently. ...
