Stelter gone, Toobin gone, Harwood gone. So it was about time that CNN CEO Chris Licht started ADDING to the on-air staff. He landed some significant names. Onetime CBS and ABC News journalist John ...
The $5.4 billion buyout of Tegna by Standard Media (with a financial assist from hedge fund Apollo Global) has come under fire from both unions and at least one competing media company. And that ...
Evidently the memo penned last week by Standard Media CEO Deb McDermott reassuring the Tegna news staff that jobs won’t be cut post-merger is not holding much water with the Tegna unions. On the ...
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 ...
Zucker didn’t name the “senior executive” in his memo, but Allison Gollust’s name quickly surfaced. She’s CNN’s evp and chief marketing officer whose history with Zucker goes back to his days running NBCUniversal, where ...
The fact that it took only hours to name Zucker’s replacements (yes, plural) at the top indicates this parting was days in the making. Left to right, Michael Bass, Amy Entelis and Ken Jautz ...
When retiring Houston anchor legend Art Rascon passed the torch on to his son Jacob during their joint appearance on Rascon pere’s last midday newscast for Disney‘s KTRK, it marked the official end of ...
Once upon a time, newsroom personnel broke out in a cold sweat as those all-important rating periods approached. Careers rose and fell, producers were under the gun to make their programs and ratings-friendly as ...
It’s the media’s fault that Donald Trump lost the convention ratings war to Joe Biden. Just ask him Trump’s speech at the RNC Thursday night drew 23.4 million viewers compared with Biden’s speech, which ...
There have been a lot of negatives emerging in the world of race relations in America in the last few weeks – but in the right light, you will find the glimmer of a ...
Ryan Houston only recently arrived at Apollo Cox’s WPXI in Pittsburgh as the station’s newest anchor. Houston, who came to Pittsburgh last December from Scripp’s WCPO in Cincinnati, is now making news as one ...
NBC News will air live primetime specials about the coronavirus pandemic Tuesdays at 10 p.m. beginning tomorrow night. The one-hour specials will air on NBC, MSNBC and NBC News Now and is planned for ...
Chauncy Glover, the 3 and 6 PM anchor at Disney’s KTRK in Houston has test positive for COVID-19 and is home an self-quarantining. —– Add “CBS This Morning’s” Anthony Mason to the list of ...
At Scripps’ KRIS in Corpus Christi, reporters have been paired with photogs whom they will work with exclusively. The teams have been assigned news vehicles and are not allowed in the building, being given ...
CBS had hoped to roll out its CBSN Local streaming service in Chicago by the end of this month, basing it out of the newsroom of O&O WBBM.. Hello COVID-19, goodbye rollout. WBBM ...
Over the weekend, Fox News Media chief executive officer Suzanne Scott and FNC president and executive editor Jay Wallace notified the staff that two more Fox News employees had contracted COVID-19, bringing the total ...
CBS O&O local anchors continue to help out the parent network news operation by doing fill-in anchoring on network newscasts while the network scrambles to deep-clean its midtown Manhattan facilities and find temporary homes ...
It’s not only that “abundance of caution” that is forcing tv newsrooms to adjust to this new and (we hope) short-term reality. In Pittsburgh, CBS-owned KDKA is going through an anchor shuffle that viewers ...
Stories like the preceding are happening in newsrooms from across the country. It’s almost too many to keep track of. From Washington, NC to Fargo, ND, from St. Louis to Portland, OR and points ...