A changing of the guard is underway in Austin, TX, where veteran anchor Robert Hadlock (left) is preparing to step down from the prime-time desk at Nexstar’s KXAN in the middle of the month ...
“The Hill” is that online publication that Nexstar bought in the past year and has plans to build a NewsNation panel show around. It appears that most of the publication’s 80 employees have signed ...
The National Association of Black journalists had a meeting with CNN executives late last week after a questionable photo inside the CNN+ war room surfaced. The NABJ released a statement after the meeting and ...
Help Wanted: local news reporters, multimedia journalists, news producers, assignment editor, a technical media producer, photojournalist and statewide reporter. Gray Television this week announced it’s putting its money where its mouth is and hiring ...
We told you that Rebecca Cantu was hired to take over as president and general manager of Tegna’s Corpus Christi station last month. She officially started on March 4. The former president and general ...
It’s been to hear that small stations are still hiring news directors. Rubén Juárez will return to Texas where he started from WOOD in Grand Rapids, Mich. to become KVEO/KGBT’s sports director. He was ...
Legendary WCVB anchor Mary Richardson died over the weekend. She was 76. She lost a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Richardson was the anchor of Chronicle. She is survived by her husband Stan Leven, who ...
In an age when fresh-faced young reporters flee the tv news business after a year or two, it is nice to bring up people like John Telich. Telich, who’s been manning the sports desk ...
People disagree. Talking heads argue. Journalists are supposed to reports. Then there are the talking heads. These are the hosts on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC and elsewhere who are given license to express their ...
KTVT has hired Nick Starling in Dallas, Texas. He comes from Kansas City. “I loved my time in Kansas City and met some incredible people along the way,” Starling tweeted. “I can’t wait to ...
Jake Ryle, a reporter at Scripps’ WCPO in Cincinnati, OH for the past four and a half years, announced he is going off the radar for awhile. A recent diagnosis of anxiety and persistent ...
As the reorganization of the CBS News and Stations division rolls along, Jennifer Mitchell and Tom Canedo have been named regional presidents of CBS Stations, joining Adrienne Roark,who was named a president earlier this ...
Eric Ludgood has been named the first head of news for Scripps streamer and soon-to-be-over-the-air 24/7 Newsy For the past 8 ½ years, Ludgood has been the assistant news director at Fox-owned WAGA in ...
KENS fearless leader news director Jack Acosta posted a photo so viewers know how hard his crew is working to keep the public informed during historic winter weather in San Antonio, Texas. We want ...
The national “If You Give a Child a Book…” campaign will distribute more than 165,000 books to kids in low-income households across the country this school year after raising $825,369 during its annual fundraiser ...
At KABC-TV (ABC, obviously) in Los Angeles, Pam Chen has been promoted to News Director. She first joined KABC in 2004, and has served as Assistant News Director since 2004. Pam’s career path is detailed ...
John LaPorte has resigned as ND for Cox Media Group’s KIRO-TV (CBS) in Seattle after only about 14 months there. He’s returning to Milwaukee, where he spent almost nine years as ND at WITI-TV (FOX), ...
Tech finds a way. That’s what they do after all. TikTok has launched its first TV app on Amazon Fire TV devices. “More on TikTok” features curated video playlists and compilations from the mobile ...
Donald Trump throws around the term “fake news” as it were a roll of paper towels at a disaster relief press conference. But it was the president who made Twitter history with for some ...
President Trump has always had a turbulent relationship with the media, but it’s been a back-and-forth between two very distinct sides, even when concerning outlets that traditionally go softer on the president. Those lines ...
Former Vice President and current Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, will appear on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today to address Tara Reade‘s sexual assault allegation. The network made the announcement yesterday. The Biden campaign has denied Reade’s allegation, but ...
Gray Television’s CW affiliate WUAB Cleveland (DMA 19) is partnering with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) and Cleveland Teachers Union, Local 279, to bring students a daily televised virtual classroom. The show is ...
NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt will be leading an experimental version of his newscast that will be geared towards children and teens. Of course teens always love being grouped-in with a demo that ...
Two Channel 3-WEAR employees in Pensacola, Florida have tested positive for COVID-19. According to the station’s twitter post, production has been suspended on the newsroom, “We will be working with our sister station WPMI in ...
CBS Television Stations’ Los Angeles properties CBS 2, KCAL 9 and CBSN Los Angeles have partnered with iHeartRadio Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Chargers and the Los Angeles Unified School District to present “L.A. ...
It’s not just about barbecues and lake outings. Labor Day celebrates and honors the American labor movement and the power of collective action by laborers, who are essential for the workings of society. Beginning ...
After nearly 9 years on the street, reporter Dan Bowens is moving to a spot on the anchor desk at Fox-owned WNYW in New York. Bowens will anchor the weekend 6 and 10 p.m. ...
After a short holiday break, we’re happy to be back in harness here at NewsBlues International Headquarters. We hope you’re holiday was a good one and that 2019 holds all good things for you. ...
Plenty of images coming out of Anchorage Alaska following a powerful earthquake there this morning. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake has rocked buildings in Anchorage and caused lamp posts and trees to sway, prompting people to ...
Former KGO-AM/San Francisco host and ABC O&O KGO-TV anchor Ray Taliaferro has been reported missing, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The 79-year-old was the host of KGO radio’s overnight show from 1977 through 2011, ...
Thursday is Thanksgiving Day. We hope you have a happy and safe one getting to and from wherever you plan to spend the holiday and the long weekend ahead. NewsBlues will be taking a ...
“I will order defendants immediately restore Mr. Acosta’s hard pass.” Judge rules in favor of CNN in this initial proceeding and White House MUST restore Jim Acosta‘s press pass IMMEDIATELY. U.S. District Court Judge ...
Brianna Keilar assumes the lead role on CNN’s 1 PM (ET) hour “Right Now” today. It will be a quiet hand-off of the hour from Wolf Blitzer to Keilar. Fear not – Wolf will ...
How is turnout in your town? Other things you will want to keep in mind. More votes already have been cast in Georgia, an epicenter of election-suppression complaints, than in the entire 2014 vote. ...
The reviews are in for a campaign closing web ad offered up Thursday by the Tweeter-in-Chief. The ad, which makes that Willie Horton campaign ad from the 1988 Presidential campaign look statesmanlike, shows Luis ...
At least 8 people were killed and three officers injured responding to an active shooting incident at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday, KDKA (CBS) and CNN reported. KDKA was live and feeding Networks. #BREAKING: ...
A CNN White House correspondent cursed out a former Trump White House staffer Thursday night on Twitter after drawing online sneers for a complaint about the noise levels at the president’s rally in Missoula, Montana. Jim Acosta tossed ...
Nexstar’s Panama City, FL station WMBB suffered extensive building damage from Hurricane Michael to the extent that it is temporarily homeless. The station news crew started streaming news from the parking lot in front ...
Last August, Charlie Specht, an investigative reporter for Scripps’ WKBW in Buffalo, NY, did a three-part series outlining alleged mismanagement in the Diocese of Buffalo, where Bishop Richard Malone, a former auxiliary bishop in ...
Well at least now we know the relative value of a journalist’s life. Not more than $110 billion. Even as Senate Republican Bob Corker expressed the belief that leading Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was ...
Details still coming in from WJZ (CBS) Baltimore. Reported shooting at a Rite Aid Distribution Center in Harford County Maryland. CBSN was quick to take WJZ’s signal live. Local EMS sent out a tweet ...
The hurricane-preparedness plans of local tv stations are out of storage as newsrooms across the Carolinas deploy to cover Hurricane Florence, which is now a Category 1 storm that is carrying massive amounts of ...
Dallas Texas TV is always interesting and Wednesday Morning was no different. Dallas Police are investigating a crash. Not just a fender bender during the morning commute but something bigger. A pickup slammed into KDFW‘s ...
One of the world’s biggest hedge funds now owns a big chunk of the parent company of the Nielsen ratings service and is urging the company to put itself on the block. Elliott Management ...
A couple of Democrats on the House committee that oversees the FCC is urging the commission to investigate reports that Sinclair conspired to raise ad rates with other broadcasters. Reps. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) ...
Jennifer Lyons is stepping down as ND for Chicago’s WGN after four years in the top job and almost 25 years at that Tribune owned station. In her four years, she guided Chicago’s busiest television news ...
Nexstar, which has already achieved the prized “scale” and evidently wants more, announced the purchase of two more television stations. It’s buying KRBK, the FOX affiliate serving Springfield, Missouri from KRBK LLC, and WHDF, ...
Facebook would like to be your principal news source, but until it can clean up the army of “fake news” trolls – mainly originating in Eastern Europe, it really cannot be trusted for anything ...
The Justice Department is investigating whether local television station owners including Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media violated antitrust laws, according to the Wall Street Journal. Investigators are examining whether local station owners coordinated ...