As outfits like Facebook, Google, Twitter and other Silicon Valley tech companies continue dabbling in what they think is news, they are finding they have to compromise on their early, absolutist view of free ...
Twenty-six years ago, Linda Cohn anchored her first “Sportscenter” on ESPN when women working in sports were curiosities. That 26-year streak, a record for “Sportscenter” hosts, is only going to get longer as Cohn ...
Paula Faris and ABC News announced Wednesday that she’ll be departing “The View” and “Good Morning America Weekend.” She’s staying with ABC News, however and will begin a new role with ABC News that ...
The disastrous reviews from the reliably pliant Fox News staff set the White House scrambling in full damage control mode. In his first public statement since his WTF presser following the “summit” with Russian ...
Not that it will make a dime’s worth of difference, but the Communications Workers of America is firmly declaring that D.C. Appeals Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh should not be allowed to join the Supreme ...
Stephanie Cutter, the former Deputy Campaign Manager for Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign is taking her talent for bloviating to ABC News, exiting CNN after five years. We’re informed that Cutter will be contributing ‘political ...
An aerospace engineer and UCLA doctoral candidate who led a double life as a white nationalist has been exposed through the efforts of Pro Publica and the documentary series “Frontline.” What’s more, it was ...
Former Fox News host Eric Bolling has a new show called “America” on something called CRTV (Conservative Review TV) and he’d like more people to know about it. So he is hitting the road ...
There is no doubt that Bill Shine will fit like a glove in this White House. Shine, the former Fox News executive who was Roger Ailes’ right-hand man knows how to deal with a ...
We’re hearing from Houston blogger Mike McGuff that the job posting for the traffic reporter position at Tegna’s KHOU is creating some buzz in the market – maybe some of it a nervous buzz. ...
The FCC is being asked by several states to deny the proposed merger of Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and her counterparts in Iowa and Rhode Island petitioned ...
It appears that the National Association of Hispanic Journalists is in hot water with some of its membership over the group’s silence on how to cover family separations at the border. “Some members are ...
In the wake of CEO Barry Lee Myers, brother of AccuWeather founder Joel Myers, being named by the Trump administration as the new head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (pending Senate ...
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow broke down in tears on-air last night over a report about the Trump administration operating “tender age” shelters for migrant babies and toddlers. Maddow choked up while reading the first lines ...
CNN has added two veteran reporters to the staff, both of them law enforcement coverage specialists. The additions will help the network bolster its coverage of Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into Russian interference ...
Retiring WRAL morning anchor Bill Leslie is making the rounds of the Raleigh-Durham market this week, handing out merch, glad-handing, signing autographs and telling war stories to all who will listen. We’re pretty certain ...
Out in Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune and Tribune’s KSTU have launched a content sharing partnership. As part of the agreement, both outlets will highlight joint projects across all platforms, collaborate on newsgathering and ...
While the other broadcast and cable networks have yet to announce their plans, Fox News is planning on making a Singapore splash with their live coverage of the United States summit with North Korea ...
Nearly a year after she announced her diagnosis with ALS, WAFB anchor Donna Britt made a second announcement. She is stepping down from the Raycom station in Baton Rouge, LA. Britt joined the WAFB ...
Gerald Baker, the Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief who’s got a reputation for being quite a pain in the…..keyboard….of reporters trying to do an honest job of covering news, is leaving the Murdoch paper to ...
Nicholas Thompson who, for the moment anyway, is a producer and reporter at FOX-owned KTVI in St. Louis, was evidently drunk when he got into an altercation with police after refusing to leave Busch ...
And that, says the corporate version, is why MSNBC continues to put up with the fallout from Joy Reid’s past history of blog idiocy and the continued “drip, drip, drip” of those posts. On ...
Yesterday, we ran a story about the ongoing ratings slide for the “CBS Evening News with Jeff Glor” and some of the internal angst and anger over that slide. Today, we need to correct ...
America’s Tweeter-in-Chief is manufacturing a feud with ABC in the wake of Roseanne Barr’s firing for the latest in her ongoing series of racist, conspiracy-mongering tweets. For the second consecutive day, Mr. Trump aimed ...
Public trust in media is probably at an all-time low, and that lack of trust not helped by daily attacks from a certain Twitter-addicted official whose charges alternately are rooted in a grain of ...
WYFF weekend anchor and reporter Mike McCormick and cameraman Aaron Smeltzer were killed Monday while covering severe weather in the outer bands of Subtropical Storm Alberto. The two staffers for the Hearst station in ...
Eleven years after she started her second go-round with Gray’s WITN in Washington, NC, Lynnette Taylor announced her departure from the station, her native North Carolina and the tv news business. Taylor has been ...
ABC News investigative reporter Brian Ross returns to the airwaves tonight with a story that will air on “20/20.” The report is an investigation into murders committed by individuals who had been mandated to ...
After seven years, “The Chew” has been digested and disposed of in the appropriate manner. In its place on ABC will be a third hour of “Good Morning America.” That extra hour will air ...
Now this is what a station should be doing if they were rewarded with a windfall from last year’s spectrum auction. WLVT, a PBS station located in Allentown, PA, 90 miles east of Philadelphia, ...
When you have a guy who speaks British like a native, of course you’re going to send him to the Royal Wedding. Of course, WDIV’s Tim Pamplin IS a native Brit and the Graham ...
Quincy Media’s WPTA in Ft. Wayne, IN is strenuously objecting to a political commercial in which a PAC used footage from the station’s newscast. The television ad was paid for by the Senate Majority ...
By a 52-47 vote, the Senate Wednesday delivered a rebuke to industry lobbyist/FCC chair Ajit Pai, as it set the ball rolling to keep in place so-called “net neutrality” rules that prevent internet providers ...
We’ve never gotten used to the idea of commercial breaks that run up to four minutes or more. While it’s handy for getting chores done around the house or make bathroom breaks less frantic, ...
We could let the week go by without noting that there are viewers out there who pay attention to what they’re seeing on newscasts and, like us, when they see stuff that is intelligence-insulting, ...
Don’t panic. It’s just gone for viewers who watched Sinclair stations via PlayStation Vue. Sony’s live streaming site this week started pulling Sinclair stations off the channel lineups posted at Vue’s site. Previously, subscribers ...
It’s 37 years and out the door for Jacksonville, FL’s longest serving sports anchor. Sam Kouvaris is gone after he and Graham Media’s WJXT couldn’t agree to terms on a new contract. That contract ...
Yes, FCC commissioner Michael O’Rielly violated the Hatch Act with his remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February. That’s the final word from the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which issued ...
Anybody remotely familiar with the workings of both network and local tv newsrooms knows that one of the common practices is to prepare “obit pieces” on prominent newsmakers of all stripes so that when ...
You have to love the ABC News graphic headline on Tuesday’s “World News Tonight.” “Dangerous Tornado Watch” As opposed to benign tornadoes, which we can confidently ignore. Or maybe the watch itself was dangerous. ...
Has anybody checked with Michelle Wolf what the view under the bus was like? Since this “celebration of the First Amendment” was evidently supposed to be held under a caution flag, the WHCA is ...
After five years as a Fox News West Coast-based national correspondent, Will Carr joined ABC News as a correspondent based in Los Angeles. He started Monday and will be in place in LA in ...
KSAT’s David Elder enjoys his “fun ’n’ games” beat as a lifestyle reporter for the Graham Media San Antonio station. For some reason, Joel McHale, host of a Netflix weekly program named, oddly enough, ...
Americans were treated to a profane, insult-laden, often inappropriate monologue Saturday night. But enough about the POTUS in Michigan. How about the White House Correspondents Dinner? Next year, hire a musical act to entertain ...
We have to wonder about the basement-dwelling losers who seem to think they have a calling to insult tv newspeople about things that have nothing to do with their abilities to report the news. ...
Tom Brokaw is probably the last network news anchor to achieve the iconic status reserved for the Cronkites, Brinkleys and Jennings. So it is a bombshell to see this elder statesman of tv news ...
Former Pittsburgh anchor Wendy Bell thought you should know that, as a woman and a victim of sexual harassment who lost her job when she blew the whistle on her harasser, she’s fully supportive ...
Veteran anchor Deborah Knapp, who’s spent more than three decades at anchor desks in Philadelphia and San Antonio has been awarded permanent residency of the 10 PM anchor desk at Tegna’s KENS in San ...
MSNBC personality Joy Reid probably figured her December apology for a series of 11-12 year-old homophobic entries on her now-discontinued blog would have put the story to rest. Wrong. A whole new series of ...
The FCC’s #1 lawyer says there was no ethical issue raised by the attendance of the Commission’s three Republican members at this year’s Conservative Political Action Caucus (C-PAC) convention. Even though CPAC is an ...
When Grace Joyal exits the morning anchor desk after five years at Bahakel’s WOLO, two people are stepping up to take her place. Claire Richardson and Curtis Wilson will become the new anchors of ...
“Seems I got to have a change of scene” “’Cause every night I have the strangest dreams.” Ken Wayne, a fixture at Fox O&O KTVU in Oakland, CA for the past 26 years is ...
Veteran media executive Ronald Day is the new executive vice president of programming for Telemundo, one of three executives just hired by the Hispanic network. He previously served as an executive producer for NBC ...
Matt Piacente, news director of Fox-owned WFLD, stepped out from behind the curtain Tuesday to host a new daily live video on Facebook for the station. According to Robert Feder, Piacente was clearly channeling ...
Former KARK anchor Jancey Sheats (2005-2015) seems to be growing a career as a temporary fill-in at the Nexstar station in Little Rock, AR. She’s sitting in on the morning program through May while ...
Twitter is agog, the late-night hosts have a fresh source of material and cable news panels will be convening everywhere but Fox News, over the revelation that the third “mystery” client of Trump fixer ...
How does the job of “Media Prep Technician” sounds to you? What does a “Media Prep Technician” do? It says here: [R]esponsible for subject matter knowledge and problem solving in all areas of Studio ...
The University of Missouri School of Journalism is pondering a possible ban of Sinclair Broadcast Group from its student recruitment efforts at the school So far, 16 journalism school deans and department chairs have ...
Edward Lawrence, who has freelanced for….well…everybody, including NBC News, CBS News, MSNBC and Global News Canada is now a fulltime assignment reporter covering economic and political breaking news for Fox Business. He’ll work out ...
It was last November that a “Washington Post” article told the stories of eight women who accused longtime TV host Charlie Rose of making unwanted sexual advances, walking around naked in front of them, ...
Looks like St. Louis broadcast bonehead Jamie Allman not only lost his nightly “news” program on Sinclair’s KDNL, but now he’s taking one of those by-now-standard “Fox vacations” that hosts take after they’ve stepped ...
Newsmax is sending a clear message it intends to step up its game with the hiring of former Fox News executive Michael Clemente as the new CEO of its television arm, Newsmax TV. It ...
After just over three and a half years, Kenny Plotnik is out the door as vice-president and news director of NBC10 Boston, NECN and Telemundo Boston. The station staff got the word Monday morning ...
Take their word for it, Raycom’s WBTV in Charlotte, NC is heading down the nontraditional route with its latest offering, “On Your Side Tonight with Jamie Boll”, which debuts tonight at 7:30. The new ...
“Chicago’s Very Own” could be in a spot of trouble. As staffers at Tribune’s WGN nervously prepare for what appears to be the inevitable takeover by Sinclair, a competitor has the station in its ...
Bill Maher, no fan of snarky Fox News entertainer Laura Ingraham, came to her defense on his HBO program over the weekend. While calling her a “deliberately terrible person,” Maher faced down an audience ...
CNN International business anchors Maggie Lake and Richard Quest launched a weekly 15-minute streaming program from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. The program airs Wednesdays and will feature exclusive access to ...
The so-called “promo announcements” that Sinclair Broadcast mandated its local anchors deliver convincingly – or else – blatantly adopted Trumpian talking points about “fake news” and biased reporting and, only retroactively tried to refine ...
It is fairly evident that Sinclair’s overall contempt for real journalism is a top-down philosophy. For an example, we can reach back to an email exchange in November between David Smith, Sinclair’s executive chairman, ...
John Berman is the official replacement on CNN’s “New Day” for Chris Cuomo as Cuomo departs for prime-time. But for the past couple of days, with Cuomo off, Jim Sciutto has been filling in ...
You don’t have to actually accept a job to work in this Administration. You could be on a Fox cable network or a Sinclair local station and you could become an ex officio advisor. ...
It’s vacation week for Fox News talker Laura Ingraham, although she didn’t know it last Thursday. And it is more than likely that she is spending this vacation week nervously monitoring the still-growing list ...
So how do you replace a legend like Don Imus? You make sure Juliet Huddy, who quietly left her anchor slot at Fox News in September 2016 with what was later revealed to be ...
Guess who’s taking a vacation this week? As the list of sponsors bailing on her Fox News entertainment hour hit (by some accounts) 17, Laura Ingraham announced she’s taking a post-Easter week off. It ...
When he stepped down from his post at Sinclair’s WZTV as the “dean of Nashville sportscasters,” Paul Jones declared he wanted to ‘find a new challenge and something that excites me and that I ...
Facing the possibility of a growing advertiser boycott, Fox News prime-time entertainer/agitator Laura Ingraham tried going the apology route. In recent weeks, right-wing pundits have found themselves stymied by the continued successful activism of ...
It wasn’t enough that KMSP news reporter Courtney Godfrey lost the lower part of her left leg in a boating accident last summer. The Minneapolis reporter was then shocked to learn that the boat’s ...
Station managers lobbied behind the scenes against it and few working teevee journalists were willing to risk management wrath to go on the record supporting it. But the state of Utah now has a ...
Alexis Orengo joins “Noticiero Telemundo 39 a las 11 am” on KTVX and will also deliver local weather forecasts during the weekday early morning news cut-ins. He started this week. Pablo Sánchez Nuñez will ...
On the first day she walks into her new office at Disney’s WABC, newly-named president and GM Debra O’Connell will get to confront the human resources train wreck left behind by her predecessor, Dave ...
Working in this Administration is, at this point, better characterized as being cast for a part. The latest example, of course, is the improbably-named Caroline Sunshine, late of the Disney Channel’s “Shake It Up”, ...
A quarter century is enough for San Antonio’s Steve Browne, the longtime weather guesser at Graham Media’s KSAT. No more vegetable garden. Wave buh-bye to the critter cam. They’ve got him through May sweeps, ...
Terrance Bates returned to the studio this morning to anchor the news on Bahakel’s WCCB in Charlotte, NC after assault charges were dropped against him Bates was arrested on March 6th and spent a ...
News director Gilberto Companioni was among a group of people “realigned” out of a job Tuesday as Telemundo began to put its stamp on recently-acquired WTMO in Orlando. WTMO was one of 13 ZGS ...
Joe Antonelli is the new vice-president and general manager of Scripps’ WGBA/WACY duopoly in Green Bay, WI. He’s coming from sister station WFTX in Ft. Myers, FL, where he’s been director of sales for ...
Amid much fanfare, John Fugelsang was heralded as the main host of the “Page Six” syndicated gossip/”news” program last fall. His exit was considerably quieter. Fugelsang is already gone and, for the rest of ...
We normally don’t cover the food fights between the cable news outlets. The charges, countercharges and insults are as enlightening and mature as a spitting contest between a septuagenarian President and a septuagenarian former ...
PBS finally made official what has been fact for a year and a half. Going forward, Judy Woodruff will be the solo anchor for the “PBS News Hour.” That’s been the case ever since ...
Bay area blogger Rich Lieberman has the lowdown on the exit of Nexstar’s KRON evening anchor anchor Steve Aveson who is being shown the door at the end of the month when his contract ...
Perhaps Aveson should rally social media to his side. After former noon anchor Flora Posteraro announced her forced departure from Nexstar’s WHTM last week, Harrisburg, PA area social media went to work. To date, ...
The top Democrat of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), says whistleblowers are alleging a plot to remove the current CEO of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the agency which controls ...
And speaking of Cambridge Analytica, its CEO Alexander Nix was suspended Tuesday after he was recorded bragging that his company had managed to influence more than 200 elections around the world. Britain’s Channel 4 ...
Retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters did not feel the need to sugar coat his exit as a longtime Fox News “strategic analyst.” Peters, a decade-long fixture at Fox News, quite Tuesday, denouncing ...
The disappearance of a web bio for WXYZ morning anchor Malcolm Maddox appears to confirm what some folks on the Tipline told us over the weekend. The morning anchor for the Scripps’ Detroit station ...
Another former Fox News anchor is moving up in the State Department. Heather Nauert, the former Fox News anchor who never gained the trust of Rex Tillerson, is now the fourth-ranking person in the ...
Maybe this is a hint of where Tegna intends to take its “Daily Blast Live.” You’ve been warned. The former executive producer of the “Jerry Springer Show” has been hired as the KUSA-produced show’s ...
One of the few actual journalists at Fox News is sticking around. Shep Smith just signed a new multi-year deal to continue as Chief News Anchor and Managing Editor of Breaking News. No, nobody’s ...
“The New York Times” has finally taken notice of what some others have noted for some time. Foxnews.com has a heavy-breathing obsession with female sex offenders – especially teachers. “Through the first half of ...
