Facebook says it is investing $100M to support news reporting during the coronavirus pandemic. The social media giant is putting up a $25M emergency relief fund for local news through its Facebook Journalism Project, ...
Instead of the newly-launched “Strahan, Sara and Keke” in the early afternoon, ABC viewers will be getting a daily COVID-19 update to be anchored by Amy Robach. “Pandemic: What You Need to Know,” featuring ...
So you’re starting a new job in a new city with a pretty decent sports history – but there no sports to cover thanks to COVID-19. What the hell….???!? We’re not saying that’s what ...
They call it “extending the brand.” Take a popular name connected to a much-loved product and stretch to its thinnest point. Remember when Oreos were just a chocolate cookie sandwich with white icing? And ...
Yes, kids, it was another one of those exhaustive “nationwide searches” that, oddly enough, ended up right back in the newsroom where the perfect candidates (and that elusive “next level”) had been all along. ...
Tegna’s KING in Seattle just shuffled “Take 5” host/reporter Angela Poe Russell to “Evening,” the station’s long-running (30 years, that’s how long!) lifestyle and entertainment show. “Take 5,” an almost two-year experiment in casual ...
Ashley Strohmier, an anchor and reporter with NPG’s KMIZ in Columbia, Mo., will be joining Fox News Channel as an overnight anchor and correspondent effective March 2. Strohmier will be based in New York. ...
A more substantive effort at informing voters is the plan to livestream the February 18 US Senate Democratic primary debate in Texas. Tegna’s KVUE in Austin is spearheading the effort, partnering with the Texas ...
Check out this news release posted Monday by Houston blogger Mike McGuff: “Houston Public Media announced today that it is now streaming live on YouTube TV. Dedicated live channels for Houston Public Media and ...
Welcome Quincy Media’s KDLH, a sister station to KBJR in Duluth, MN to the ranks of newscasts seeking to cash in to an election year. The station is adding a 5 pm newscast in ...
It looks as if former Fox News executive producer Jennifer Williams has gotten the nod to head video strategy for Facebook News, Zuckerberg’s dedicated news tab that will launch later this year At least ...
If we didn’t mention in the previous story that WKYC is now calling it’s 6 PM newscast “What Matters Most,” we’re mentioning it now. Because it seems this new trend is catching. Fox- owned ...
Apollo Cox’s WPXI is bringing Angie Moreschi back home to Pittsburgh. Moreschi, who most recently worked in the PR department of a Tampa FL law firm, will be a member of PXI’s investigative unit. ...
The folks at Gray Television would like you to believe this is a good thing – that somehow viewers will be better served with one less independent news gathering operation in the market. A ...
First it was November. Then it was January. Now we are told that the Black News Channel, the brainchild of former politician J.C. Watts will launch February 10 – coinciding with Black History Month. ...
Meredith’s KMOV in St. Louis has named Samantha Jones as the new principal co-anchor on weekday evenings. She moves into the chair after the first of the new year, replacing the departing, and Atlanta-bound ...
The editorial staff at NBC News Digital overwhelmingly voted 90-40 to join the NewsGuild of New York. The new bargaining unit includes reporters, video journalists, editors, social media strategists, designers and editorial staff from ...
We should find out sometime Friday the result of a union organizing vote among NBC News Digital employees. That vote, held a week ago, would, if approved, make the digital employees members of the ...
We mentioned a few weeks back, KDAF (CW) Dallas formerly operated by Tribune and now by Nexstar was hosting the Dallas Holiday Parade. It happened over the weekend, anchored by WFAA’s former Morning Guy ...
A year after he left NBC News because of a contract stalemate, Jeff Rossen has foun a new home for himself and his “Rossen Reports” brand. The once high-profile investigative reporter and consumer advocate ...
Six months after Lee Cruse was fired from Scripps’ WLEX in Lexington KY following comments he made two weeks prior that the station called inappropriate, he’s found himself, and former co-host Hayley Harmon, a ...
Joshua Johnson said he is stepping down as host of the WAMU/NPR national radio show “1A” to join MSNBC as an anchor early next year. He shared his news on Facebook. “This show is ...
Former “60 Minutes’ correspondent Lara Logan has signed on to Fox Nation, the streaming…and somewhat steaming…outlet of Fox News. Beginning in January she will host a four-part documentary series entitled….are you sitting down?….”No Agenda ...
Just what we needed. From Dallas, Unclebarky.com reports that NBCU‘s KXAS is taking a page from WFAA’s long-running “Good Morning Texas” money grab and is gearing up for a new locally produced infotainment show ...
Public impeachment hearings start up this morning in the Capitol beginning at 10 Eastern time. ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS on Wednesday will preempt their regularly scheduled programming for live coverage, as will the ...
It’s that time of the year again when WFSB (CBS) is compiling a list of names to use for winter storms this upcoming season. The tradition of naming winter storms began on Channel 3 ...
Former Vice News Tonight correspondent Evan McMorris-Santoro has signed on as a New York-based correspondent with CNN McMorris-Santoro’s raised considerably with Vice News because of his coverage of the 2018 Alabama senate race, and ...
Speculation has been running rampant in both St. Louis and Atlanta that soon-to-be departed KMOV anchor Courtney Bryant is headed for Atlanta and a perch at Fox O&O WAGA. “All I can say right ...
Meteorologist Adam Bowles is leaving the Big Easy and headed to Arkansas. He posted the following on social media this week: ANNOUNCEMENT: All of your prayers worked ?. This is the best opportunity of ...
If it works, bless’em. Hearst Television, with 26 TV markets reaching into 39 states, will for the first time extend its television and digital news coverage of election discourse to every state for the ...
The current impeachment drama currently playing out in Washington is unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. That’s because this will be the first-ever social media impeachment. Those who, fondly or not, remember the blanket ...
That move by Norah O’Donnell from New York to the Nation’s Capital is supposed to be in a matter of weeks – maybe November. But there is still no exact date for rolling out ...
As it seeks to smooth over last year’s scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse, the Pittsburgh, PA Catholic Diocese is turning to a familiar face to area news viewers to paper ...
Houston blogger Mike McGuff notes that Graham Media’s KPRC expanded its 4 PM news this week by another half hour so that that station now offers a full two and a half hour weekday ...
When you come down to it, ALL reporting should be, by definition, investigative reporting. But what the hell, we’ll play the marketing game and bring you the news that Tribune-soon-to-be-Nexstar-or-maybe–even-Fox’s WJW in Cleveland is ...
More than a few smaller market stations did this years ago, more as a matter of economics than anything else.. Now the big boys are getting into the act. Axios reports that all NBC ...
Savannah Louie started this week at Tegna’s KSDK in St. Louis. Soon, she will be the new face on the 4 AM anchor spot of “Today in St. Louis.” She will replace Jenn Sullivan, ...
The AJC’s Rodney Ho reports that Meredith’s WGCL in Atlanta is moving around the newsroom chess pieces to fill empty spaces left by the departures of anchors Sharon Reed and Thomas Roberts, and the ...
Just days after Chief Meteorologist John Cessarich announced his plans to retire next November from Hearst’s WYFF in Greenville, SC, his replacement was named. Chris Justus will be Chief Meteorologist, succeeding Cessarich once the ...
When “Vice News Tonight” ends its HBO run next month, it will head to millennial-centric Viceland, a joint operation of Vice and A&E Networks. Vice’s newly-installed global news and entertainment chief Jesse Angelo will ...
Tegna’s KTHV is bringing back meteorologist Sarah Fortner to Little Rock. Fortner was with the station for four years, between 2012 and 2016 before leaving for sister station WCNC in Charlotte, NC. From there ...
Get ready for still another talking head on cable (not)news. Mark McKinnon is joining CNN as a still another bloviating gasbag. McKinnon, one-time advisor to the campaigns of President George Bush and Senator John ...
Investigative reporting Rachel Polansky is leaving the Gulf Coast and Waterman’s WBBH in Ft. Myers, FL after three and a half years, and heading for the North Coast and Tegna’s WKYC. They’re thrilled on ...
His NFL career easily eclipsed that of Ryan Leaf, but now Leaf and former New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez are part of the ESPN college football team. Leaf joined a week or so ...
Another era of the “CBS Evening News” begins this evening as Norah O’Donnell takes over the anchor chair and managing editor duties. We’ve enjoyed her work for years and it will be interesting to ...
Angela Green will be the new morning anchor at Scripps’ WTXL in Tallahassee. We told you a few weeks ago that Green was leaving her news director’s job at Lockwood Broadcasting’s WFXG in Augusta, GA. She ...
A streaming service that offers free broadcast TV to cord-cutters is winning support from some big media players, five years after a similar venture was quashed in court. But the emergence of Locast, which ...
Also going the literary route is CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter. Stelter’s planning to write an epic that will examine the relationship between Fox News and President Donald Trump. Golly, we wonder if he ...
Russell Crowe is Roger Ailes, Sienna Miller is Elizabeth Ailes, Seth MacFarlane is former Fox News PR chief Brian Lewis and Naomi Watts plays,to the delight of Gretchen Carlson…..Gretchen Carlson in an upcoming Showtime mini-series. ...
If you’re like….well NObody we know, you’ve been sweating bullets to find out when Norah O’Donnell assumes the chair at the “CBS Evening News” Sweat no more and towel yourself down. July 15th. “Live” ...
Up Cleveland way, Josh Cribbs, one of the more admired Cleveland Browns of the expansion era, and his writer, producer and activist wife, Maria, are teaming up to host a new morning talk show ...
CBS News’ executive vice president of news Kim Godwin will be at the helm when the network launches the “CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell” next month from New York. CBS News president Susan ...
It’s duPont Columbia Awards time. The Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award honors excellence in broadcast and digital journalism in the public service. Dedicated to upholding the highest journalism standards, the duPont awards inform the ...
Wednesday, May 8th will mark the return of Court TV, and former Orlando anchor Vinnie Politan, for one, is excited. “I’ve been waiting 10 years for this,” says Politan, who was a reporter and ...
Another day, another new 24/7 news channel – one we first told you about back in December. Black News Channel is set to launch in November as a multi-platform news channel geared towards an ...
We are told that Gayle King is thisclose to re-upping to continue her duties as co-host of “CBS This Morning.” With a current contract somewhere in the neighborhood of $5.5 million per year, you ...
To the surprise of absolutely no one, NBC announced that Jenna Bush Haggar is going to replace the departing Kathie Lee Gifford in that fourth-hour winefest of “The Today Show,” Or is that “Rosé ...
Insiders at KGBT (CBS) say a new boss is coming to town. Amy Rasico-Ahn Sullivan has been named News Director. She’s leaving KVII (ABC) Amarillo Texas. Zoltan Csanyi-Salcedo had been news director for Sinclair-owned Harlingen, Texas ...
CNN and MSNBC were quick to underline an unspoken contrast between them and Fox News Channel, by announcing they would air a commercial for a film about American Nazis that FNC had earlier turned ...
Anchor Len Cannon of Houston CBS station KHOU took viewers on a tour of its new digs recently. You’ll remember the station had to evacuate during Hurricane Harvey, while still covering the devastating storm. ...
Lately, cable news networks seem to be snapping up washed-up politicians as bloviators faster than K Street can recruit them to subvert the public will by distributing cash on Capitol Hill. Former South Carolina ...
Mike Lorber, the veteran flying traffic reporter for NBC-owned WMAQ in Chicago, is expected to be back up in the sky soon. He’s been grounded since his old employer, United States Traffic Network, went ...
Former WXIN-WTTV sportscaster Tricia Whitaker took to Instagram to make official what many have known for a bit. She is no longer with the Tribune duopoly in Indianapolis, IN, where she’s been since 2014. ...
Rick Gevers relays to us that a news director has been hired at KMTV in Omaha, NE but the announcement won’t come for a few days. We’ll fill you in when we can. The ...
