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. ...
We’re getting word that newly-minted Gray Television employee Greta Van Susteren is in arbitration with NBC News, claiming that her cancelled MSNBC show “For the Record with Greta,” “didn’t get sufficient backing from the network and ...
A horrific car crash that occurred while three storm chasers were racing across Texas back in 2017 is at the center of a wrongful death lawsuit filed against The Weather Channel. The $125 million ...
Sharyl Atkisson, former CBS News correspondent now with Sinclair as host of the weekly “Full Measure” Sunday public affairs program, has lost her bid to revive her lawsuit alleging her computers and phones were ...
If you bet that retired sportscaster Warner Wolf was going to get hammered over his ill-advised vandalism at his Florida gated community….you lost! Wolf was charged with felony criminal mischief last month after he ...
A New York federal judge has tossed a lawsuit brought by Rachel Witlieb Bernstein against internet personality Bill O’Reilly, Fox News and 21st Century Fox. Bernstein, a former Fox News producer, was one of ...
Three former WSMV news staffers who sued the Nashville, TN station and parent company Meredith Corporation over age discrimination and harassment have settled their action with the company. There are no details about the ...
Rachel Mastriano’s federal lawsuit against her former employer WTNH and parent company Nexstar is decidedly uncivil. Mastriano, who was hired by the New Have, CT station in 2010 and became its human resources manager ...
So much for Minnesota Nice…. Jeff Passolt, news anchor at Fox-owned KMSP in the Twin Cities, is suing the state of Minnesota for a slip and fall he took back in 2017 that resulted ...
Former Columbus and Cleveland tv reporter John Damschroder is suing the state of Ohio’s pension fund system, seeking details the release of details for one of the fund’s investments. Damschroder and his attorney, former ...
Tight lips all around in Tampa-St. Pete following the abrupt firing of longtime Reginald Roundtreeat at Tegna’s WTSP. Roundtree’s sudden dismissal after more two decades with the station apparently came as the result of ...
Do we call it a tie? The federal trial in the race discrimination and retaliation case brought by former KSHB reporter Lisa Benson Cooper against the station and parent company Scripps came to a ...
Well….if successful, this is gonna leave a dent. Retired race car driver and former motorsports broadcaster Derek Daly filed a defamation lawsuit seeking at least $25 million from his former employer, WISH in Indianapolis, ...
Lisa Benson-Cooper is finally getting her day in court after a two-year wait. Benson-Cooper, who was known on-air as Lisa Benson, brought a discrimination lawsuit against Scripps and its KSHB in Kansas City, MO, ...
Neither a failed corporate coup, nor a string of #MeToo accusations from the famous and not-so-famous – no, not even an ignominious firing under the worst of circumstance is going to keep ousted CBS ...
It’s safe to say there is absolutely nobody outside of Andrew Lack (inexplicably, still NBC News President) and his entourage who thought Megyn Kelly has a prayer of successfully transforming from a hard-nosed Fox ...
The city attorney for Los Angeles CA is in a lather over how and why The Weather Channel appropriated personal information from users who downloaded the cable operation’s mobile app. According to city attorney ...
Just in time for the holidays, the gift that keeps on giving. Former KCTV (Kansas City) anchor Karen Fuller has settled her age and discrimination lawsuit against the station’s owner, Meredith Corp. The settlement ...
Sinclair lost Tribune due to its sketchy handling of the Tribune deal, it made the dubious decision to hire on Boris Epshteyn as its “chief political analyst.” And now it has an age discrimination ...
Nexstar and WTNH in Hartford, CT are being sued by the station’s former HR manager who claims she was the victim of age and gender discrimination by the station’s current GM. Rachel Mastriano alleges ...
Is this a case of nerves? Fox News would rather the U.S. Supreme Court NOT review its recent copyright victory over media monitoring service TVEyes. Why? Last week, the cable network seemed to imply ...
You might never have heard of the now-defunct retailer Bon-Ton Stores, but you very likely knew one or more of their now defunct stores like Bergner’s, Boston Store, Carson’s, Elder-Beerman, Herberger’s, and Younkers. And ...
A journalism organization is trying to uncover the motivations behind the Department of Justice’s failed opposition to the ATT-Time Warner merger – and DOJ’s continuing appeal of that decision. The Reporters Committee for Freedom ...
It’s been awhile since we’ve anything from Joy ReidWorld, not since her decade-old ill-considered blog posts were revived to cause her no small amount of grief. Her latest misery isn’t relying on old postings. ...
There seems to be a bit of bad blood between former KWWL reporter Elizabeth Amanieh and her former boss, now-departed KWWL news director Shane Moreland. Amanieh’s court case, in which she faces charges for ...
Once again, attorneys for former Waterloo, IA TV reporter Elizabeth Amanieh are asking the court to throw out a contempt claim. Well over a year ago, Amanieh, then a reporter for KWWL, was charged ...
Now that Sinclair is going after the big bucks in counter-suing Tribune Media for being jilted, it seems to be losing interest in punitive actions against poorly-paid news employees – both present and former. ...
Karen Fuller, a former anchor for KCTV in Kansas City, MO, will be able to proceed with her age and gender discrimination lawsuit against the station and owner Meredith Corp. Fuller had anchored the ...
The legal eagles at Meredith’s WSMV in Nashville are getting a lot of practice fighting age discrimination lawsuits. Last year, the former newsroom employees filed a discrimination suit against the station. Now, the station’s ...
As the rubble from the once-sure thing acquisition of Tribune Media continues to be cleaned up, another lawsuit, this one a class action brought by the law firm of Louisiana’s former Attorney-General, lands on ...
It’s all well and good to hire legal eagles to sue someone. Just remember to pay them. That apparently, is the problem facing former WTSP chief meteorologist Jim Van Fleet. Back in 2016, Van ...
Watch the billable hours mount up. On the same conference call yesterday during which Tribune Media announced it was pulling out of the $3.9 billion deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group, it also announced it ...
This year’s Three Rivers Regatta here in Da Burgh is over and still, longtime KDKA reporter Dave Crawley still isn’t back on the job.. Last year at this time, Crawley was kneeling on a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Department of Justice is in a hurry to get its appeal of the AT&T-Time Warner merger underway. The longer it takes, the more what is now known as “Warner Media” becomes entrenched So ...
The Sinclair-Trib bombshell from the FCC is just the latest monkey wrench thrown into the best-laid plans of the corporate types. The Department of Justice’s plan to appeal a judge’s decision in the AT&T-Time ...
Maybe, just maybe, this Sinclair-Tribune deal will be resolved within our lifetime. A significant step by the Department of Justice is being reported that can help move things along. According to Fox Business Network, ...
AT&T wasted no time closing the deal with Time Warner soon after the judge in the antitrust case made his rulng on June 12. Time Warner is now Warner Media, a CEO named and ...
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, ...
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. ...
Score one for the Scripps’ legal team. We told you two weeks ago they wanted a new judge in a case involving their Cleveland outlet. This week, Cuyahoga County (OH) Judge Kelly Ann Gallagher ...
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman dropped a bombshell over the past 24 hours, with exclusive word that the parting between Disney’s KGO in San Francisco and former sportscaster Mike Shumann was NOT the mutual ...
Oh, the hooliganism that goes on at these rock and roll concerts. Veteran meteorologist Cecily Tynan of Disney’s WPVI is accused of assaulting a woman at a U2 concert in South Philadelphia Wednesday night. ...
Media watcher busybodies “The Parents Television Council” filed an indecency complaint with the FCC because of an F-bomb that aired last month on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” The complaint was lodged against Sinclair’s Washington ...
Mark October 3rd on your calendar if you’re a fan of epic litigation. That’s when CBS and CEO Les Moonves will face off against National Amusements and Shari Redstone, majority stockholder of CBS, INC. ...
Around the Kansas City market, there have been rumblings for some time. Now the rumblings have become reality. KSHB sports reporter Dee Jackson has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Scripps station. Jackson’s complaint ...
Scripps lawyers evidently don’t like what they’ve been hearing from a judge who’s been assigned a defamation lawsuit against WEWS in Cleveland and reporter Jonathan Walsh. They’re requesting a new judge to replace Common ...
The former owners of Vermont tv station WCAX in Burlington, VT. agreed to an undisclosed settlement with the family of a murder victim whose picture was shown during a news broadcast nearly four years ...
