A MIAMI MOVE MEANS NEW OPPORTUNITIES
WISN has a new morning show line up.
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TV INSIDERS REACT TO NEW CBS LEADERSHIP
Broadcasting and Cable is getting TV insiders’ take on the new CBS management. The move by CBS to combine CBS News and its owned station group surprised nearly everyone, as did the promotion of ...
REACTION FROM EVERY ANGLE AFTER CHAUVIN VERDICT
The Derek Chauvin verdict came down at 5 p.m. Most local newscasts across the country were just starting. Most cable networks were already airing the footage from inside the courtroom live. CNBC reporter Frank ...
A COYOTE CAMEO IN HIS LIVE SHOT
It forced them to cancel the hit.
33 YEAR-OLD MANAGING EDITOR KILLED IN CAR CRASH
WVLT assistant news director Nash Armstrong died in a car crash early Sunday morning near Knoxville. The news broke yesterday. Armstrong, who is from Tennessee, was only 33. “Nash has been the nucleus of ...
ATLANTA ANCHOR RECOVERING FROM BRAIN SURGERY
WSB-TV anchor Jovita Moore is in the thoughts and prayers of just about everyone in Atlanta. She had brain tumor surgery on Friday. The station provided an update on her surgery on the 6 ...
OKC REPORTER RESIGNS AND SHARES WHY ON YOUTUBE
It has to do with race issues at the station.
MAN TAKES NYC NEWS VAN JOYRIDE
A thief stole a WCBS weather van and went on a joyride, according to The Daily News. It happened on Tuesday in Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan on W 50th Street. Cops say he took ...
NASHVILLE METEOROLOGIST SHARES A SECRET
The post went viral.
ABC NEWS HAS OFFICIALLY NAMED A NEW PRESIDENT
"Kim is an instinctive and admired executive whose unique experiences."
ON THE MOVE
Eden Checkol joins WPLG and WSFL in Miami as the new 10pm anchor. Eden is currently the morning anchor at WISN in Milwaukee. Before moving to Milwaukee, Eden spent two years as a reporter ...
ST. LOUIS STATION FOCUSES ON PROMOTING FROM WITHIN
Two people have been promoted to anchor roles.
FROM SPANISH NEWS TO NEWSMAX
It’s an interesting jump.
ABC’S NEXT NEWS CHIEF
The news is out. What will ABC say?
AN UNUSUAL GOODBYE FROM HIS FIRST MARKET
This should happen to all of us.
AN SEC FILING CAUSING HEARTBURN AT TEGNA
We know that in recent months, Tegna has take new steps to improve inclusion and diversity in its newsrooms. New teams have been formed within stations, conversations are being had and the focus is ...
TELEMUNDO DOES THE ANCHOR SHUFFLE
Some of these moves were necessary.
NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGEND RETIRES
WMUR’s longtime general manager Jeff Bartlett is leaving. He’s retiring this Summer after two decades. “Jeff exemplifies local television leadership,” said Hearst television president Jordan Wertlieb. “His deep journalistic experience and keen appreciation for ...
WFAA BRINGS IN A HOMETOWN REPORTER
It’s a good hire.
FORMER WCBS STAFFERS REJOICE, FRIEND IS GONE
It’s a mess.
WATCH THIS ONE – BAY AREA FIXTURE HEADING FOR THE DOOR?
We’re hearing news about a top secret retirement announcement, according to local media blogger Rich Lieberman. Bill Martin, KTVU’s longtime meteorologist, is expected to announced he’ll leave the business next week. He’s been with ...
BUFFALO ANCHOR GOES MISSING
She can’t be found.
WPVI – YES THAT STATION – MAKES TWO HIRES
People wait years to get onto the roster here.
THEY FELT THE EARTH MOVE
And stayed so freaking calm!!
FROM RICK GEVERS
Here is news from Rick Gevers… IRE announced its new executive director this week. DIANA FUENTES is the Deputy Metro Editor of the San Antonio Express-News. She’s a former President of the Texas APME ...
AND SUDDENLY…
It’s a big secret.
DETROIT ANCHOR WITH COVID SOBS FROM HOSPITAL BED
She was hospitalized after her second bout with the virus.
NEW D.C. ANCHOR QUIETLY BEGINS
And the other leaves.
TV JOB LIST: 4/2
Looking for a job??
HE’S LIVING HIS DREAM AND IS ONLY 22
This is worth a read and a share.
STARTING A NEW CHAPTER (THANKS COVID)
It’s a familiar story.
YOU NEED A BREAK
Who doesn’t!
EXCELLENT PROGRAMMING DECISION
This is the only place in the country to watch the George Floyd trial in its entirety.
CRYPTIC EXIT IN AUSTIN
KVUE morning anchor Mike Rush is no longer at the station and there was no formal goodbye. The anchor-reporter, who moved to a morning role over the Summer from a nightside position with Quita ...
SHOOTER WON’T BE NAMED AT THIS STATION
It’s a policy that was in place in 2019.
LEAVING CBS FOR CNN TO MAKE A DREAM COME TRUE
This is a great story about someone who started behind-the-scenes and worked her way up.
KNOXVILLE ANCHOR GIVES VIEWER MINIMAL NOTICE THAT HE’S OUT
He’s been there since 1999.
SURPRISE! ELLEN PULLS A FAST ONE ON THESE ANCHORS
The reaction is worth a click.
BAKERSFIELD ARSONST CAPTURED
40-year Amber Hernandez has been arrested for lighting a car on fire outside of KGET, the NBC affiliate in Bakersfield, Calif. It happened on Sunday night at 11:00 p.m. and we now know the ...
ON THE MOVE
Here’s a move from Mort Meisner and Associates: Annie Szatkowski joins FOX Affiliate WJZY in Charlotte as Anchor/Reporter. Annie most recently worked as 5pm and 11pm Anchor at the FOX Affiliate in Grand Rapids ...
DOES A NEW HAIRSTYLE NEED AN ANNOUNCEMENT?
We don’t think so.
THIS DENVER MANAGER EXPLORES WAYS TO COVER THE INEXPLICABLE
KUSA’s director of reporting Chris Vanderveen almost hit a breaking point in 2012 as a journalist. He was covering the Aurora mass shooting. Vanderveen started his career during Columbine. And on Monday, he was ...
JUST WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS
So many of us know too well that anchoring from a studio or home while your producers are in an entirely different venue. What happened today though on Fox News is a learning lesson. ...
DENVER TV STATION CAPTURES POSSIBLE SHOOTING SUSPECT ON CAMERA
Live helicopter footage showed cops cuffing someone.
PIECES OF THE NEWSEUM HEAD TO PHILADELPHIA
The museum closed in D.C.
KTLA HAS A NEW NEWS DIRECTOR
He’s coming from a Tegna station... hint, hint.
WE NOW KNOW WHERE THIS NASHVILLE METEOROLOGIST IS GOING
It’s a Top 10 market and HOME.
REMEMBER THOSE PROMOTIONS? NOW A NEW MMJ HAS BEEN HIRED IN PHX
He comes from a network in Sonora.
ASK SPORTS QUEENS CHARISSA THOMPSON AND ERIN ANDREWS…
Yes, this is us telling you to click this to ask them anything. Within reason.
A NEW MORNING NEWSER IN CONNECTICUT
WTNH, the Nexstar station in New Haven, Conn., has hired a new and seasoned morning reporter. Ken Houston comes from Lansing, Mich. where he was an anchor. It seems he’s taking a reporter gig ...
WITNESSES SOUGHT IN SPORTS REPORTER’S DEATH
He was killed over the weekend.
CNBC REWORKS WASHINGTON D.C. LINEUP
Shepard Smith launched a new show at 7 p.m. on the network this Fall.
WPIX IS WITHOUT A NEWS DIRECTOR
It was a long time coming.
WSFL FOUND A PARTNER TO LAUNCH A NEWSCAST
They aren’t hiring though.
D.C. ANCHOR DETAILS HIS COVID NIGHTMARE
I couldn’t carry a light blanket from my bed into the living room.
SHE’S LEAVING NETWORK FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
She’s made a move from network to public broadcasting. PBS Newshour has named former NBC News producer Talesha Reynolds to senior content and special projects producer. Reynolds had been producing for Nightly News, Today ...
NEWSNATION VICE PRESIDENT IS OUT: WE’VE CONFIRMED THE DETAILS
By this morning, you’ve probably read some rumors or heard something from friends who either work or know someone working at NewsNation. Newsblues has confirmed it’s true. Jennifer Lyons, who rose to the network ...
THE REPORTER WHO ONCE STUMPED KENNEDY HAS DIED
He was 93.
PREGNANT IN A PANDEMIC: AN OPEN LETTER
KSAT anchor Courtney Friedman is putting it all out there for viewers and other journalists who need support in and around the San Antonio, Texas area. Pregnant during a pandemic. A lot of women ...
VETERAN EXEC STEPPING DOWN AT UNIVISION
After a 15 year run with Univision, the EVP and chief communications officers Rosemary Mercedes has resigned. The mother of young daughters is stepping out of her high power role to spend more time ...
LIFE AFTER NEWS AND IT’S NOT PR
In 2019, April Samp left WOI-TV, the now Tegna-owned station in Des Moines, Iowa. She had been with the station for close to seven year and nearly two decades in broadcast journalism. The single-mom ...
HE’S BEEN OUT OF THE BIZ FOR TWO YEARS… BUT NOW HE’S BACK
He’s heading for Denver. But where?
WFTV ANCHOR SAYS SHE’S NOW FIGHTING BREAST CANCER
Our friend WFTV morning anchor Nancy Alvarez posted something that took our breath away on Friday. She has been diagnosed with breast cancer and said that while she’s lucky (it’s Stage 1 and very ...
D.C. ANCHOR GOES FROM SUSPENDED TO FIRED
After posting a Tweet that got him in trouble, Fox 5 D.C. evening anchor Blake McCoy no longer works at the station. Here’s how we know. The anchor was suspended a couple weeks ago ...
GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK
The weekend is here. Lighten up
SINCLAIR LAYOFFS, WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
News about Sinclair laying off hundreds of employees due to the Coronavirus impact on the company is really upsetting. We know that Sinclair isn’t the only company being forced to make cuts. On Wednesday, ...
ALLEGED AILES VICTIM LOSES ANOTHER ROUND IN COURT BATTLE
Former Fox News guest booking director Laurie Luhn who has filed a federal defamation suit against the network and its chief executive Suzanne Scott lost a major legal battle this week. A second court ...
SCRIPPS’ INVESTMENT IN DIGITAL
He’s coming from WarnerMedia.
WELL YOU COULD HAVE KNOCKED US OVER WITH A FEATHER
We don’t
SHOOTING BREAKS OUT DURING REPORTER’S LIVE HIT
He is OK.
BANFIELD ROLLS OUT WITH SOME BIG NAMES
Today WGN America gets a new name and new shows. Tonight, Ashleigh Banfield will launch her new primetime magazine show on NewsNation called Banfield and her guest is Golden Golden winner Aaron Sorkin. The ...
JOBS, JOBS AND MORE JOBS: 2/26
Here is our Medialine Talent Job List. These jobs are pulled weekly exclusively for our Newsblues subscribers. We offer a Job Placement Program by way of our parent-company Reel Media Group. Multimedia Journalist KSBY ...
NEW JOB, SAME TITLE.
Dusty Baker joins NBC Affiliate KSBY in San Luis Obispo where he will be sports anchor-reporter. Dusty most recently served in the same role at the CBS Affiliate in Abilene, Texas. Dusty is a ...
NEW YORK REPORTER CALLS OUT PERSON WHO TOLD HER TO GO BACK TO HER COUNTRY
"Words matter," she says.
FRUSTRATION AND TWITTER DON’T MIX FOR THIS D.C. ANCHOR
“Earlier today, I Tweeted something insensitive and offensive.“
DID THE TEXAS FREEZE PUT HIM OVER THE EDGE?
He’ll leave TV after 41 years.
BABY ON BOARD IN NYC … AND THE REACTION TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT IS PRICELESS
Robin Roberts couldn’t contain her excitement.
CANCER FREE IN SAN ANTONIO
He announced he’s in remission yesterday.
TEXAS SPORTSCASTER BREAKS DOWN DURING LIVE WEEKEND SHOW
Texas stations were on air all week without power and water.
WORKING THE STORM WITHOUT WORKING TOILETS — IT’S THE REALITY FOR ONE LOUISIANA STATION
There’s a water shortage in the city but it hasn’t stopped this station from producing news.
IT WAS ALL A DREAM… UNTIL IT BECAME A REALITY
From news director to general manager. It’s what Chad Matthews calls a dream come true about his promotion at WABC. Matthews, who’s been the ABC flagship station’s news director for the past three years, ...
IT’S STILL 44 DEGREES IN THIS NEWSROOM
People have had to sleep at the station.
A PANDEMIC AND AN AMS SEAL… A LOVE STORY
How about this for a challenge? Start a new meteorologist job in a competitive weather market, pandemic hits, working from studio coming to a halt, find a way to make it work, stay focused, ...
On the Move: 2/14
He’s moving markets but keeping the same title.
BLOOMBERG LATEST NEWSROOM TO SWING THE AX
You can guess why...
WNBC NEWSROOM STUNNED BY UNEXPECTED DEATH OF POPULAR REPORTER
She hadn’t been ill, she worked her regular Wednesday morning shift at NBC flagship WNBC and then went home for the day And that is what made it all the more shocking when the ...
ANOTHER LOCAL NEWSIE HEADS TO THE NETWORK
She already has her own segment.
FORMER CLEVELAND REPORTER ARRESTED ON FELONY KIDNAPPING CHARGES
This is a short but important story. A former WOIO reporter Spanish language reporter has been arrested and charged with felony kidnapping. Hernan Galvez was taken into custody on Monday after police in North ...
THE INDUSTRY BULLY STRIKES AGAINST AN OPENLY GAY ANCHOR
“I decided to do something positive in response to this bully's homophobic and transphobic post about me.“
NOW TO NEWS ABOUT US…
Television Talent Development and Training Agency Expands to Include News Journalism and Industry Job Listings.
ASSIGNMENT EDITORS GOING THE DISTANCE
It’s doable. She did it at ABC News.
‘BYE, BYE, BYE’
The Fox News fallout continues.
YEAH WELL IT HAPPENED DURING THEIR “NON-NEWS” SCHEDULE SO….
On Twitter, the network’s critics couldn’t help but point out the gap in coverage
“DEEP THROAT” PORTRAY-ER HAL HOLBROOK DIES AT 95
It wasn't his biggest role at all. But when it comes to the world of journalism depicted in Hollywood, it does not get more paramount than 'All the President's Men'
STOP SAYING FOX IS ON THE RIGHT AND MSNBC, THE LEFT
"There are outlets that have opinion hosts, but they’re playing in the real world — in the world of facts and reality..."
ANOTHER SUIT BITES THE DUST
James Goldston, the president of ABC News, will leave the Walt Disney-backed unit at the end of March, the latest in a recent series of changes among top national news executives – according to ...
A KING IS GONE
“For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry’s may thousands of interviews, awards and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a ...
LA TIMES DIGS INTO CBS TV, ALLEGES RACISM AND MISOGYNY
It alleges coverups of misogyny and racism within the company, specifically targeting the actions of CBS Television