Morgan Murphy Media’s WBKB Alpena, Mich., will expand its local news coverage through a partnership with UpNorthLive news and Sinclair’s WPBN-WTOM Traverse City, Mich. The amount of local news will […]
Many of the reporters, news photogs and newsroom personnel covering the Great American Eclipse in August 2017 are still alive and likely working the April 8 redux. Not only will these broadcasters have the benefit of experience from the 2017 solar eclipse, but also those assigned to cover what Scientific American has dubbed “The Great American Total Solar Eclipse of 2024” will have a few tech, organizational and distribution improvements to enhance their coverage and reach viewers.
For TV News, Sacred Cows Are A Fatal Impediment To Change
If local TV journalism is to have a future, its leaders need to assess the true value of everything it holds sacred and empower the change agents who may have been pushed to the margins.
Vice Television is going through a shuffle at the top, with head exec Morgan Hertzan set to exit next week and Pete Gaffney replacing him on an interim basis. The move was just announced internally by Vice Media Group CEO Bruce Dixon in a memo to employees.
Gray Television today promoted Peter Zampa to senior national correspondent for the Gray Television Washington News Bureau. In his new role, Peter will be based in New York City covering […]
Exclusives
The trimming at NFL Network continues as on-air personalities Melissa Stark, Andrew Siciliano, James Palmer and Will Selva are all out, according to an executive with direct knowledge of the moves.
Jonathan Greenberger is leaving ABC News, where he has been Washington bureau chief, for a new job as executive vice president of Politico. Greenberger will start in his new position on April 22.
Providence, R.I., residents enjoy access to Boston and New York, while the market offers its own unique aspects.
Fox News topped its rivals in the March and first-quarter 2024 ratings by a wide margin, but MSNBC and CNN showed the biggest growth versus the same period a year ago. The past month saw major events like Super Tuesday and President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. Although the numbers aren’t giving the networks the blockbuster audiences of the 2020 cycle, the networks have for now staved off the large double-digit declines of recent years.
NAB Show Offers An Expansive Gen AI Primer
One look at the schedule for the 2024 NAB Show and you might be convinced that artificial intelligence (AI) offers the solution for all that troubles today’s media businesses. Planned […]
CBS has retained Gray Television’s in-house news research and consulting group, Strategic Insights & Activation Team, to provider it with market research and news consulting services for all 14 CBS owned and operated television stations.
Vice was once promised to become the brash young voice of news. But wild expenses, shady deals, and greed turned it into “a fucking clown show.”
WBRC Birmingham, Ala. meteorologist-reporter Fred Hunter is stepping away from the studio after 27 years of forecasting and delivering Absolutely Alabama to viewers throughout the state. Hunter has been with […]
The Marion County Record’s parent company and Eric Meyer, its editor and publisher, accuses the city of Marion, the Marion County Commission and five current and former local officials of violating free press rights and the right to be free from unreasonable law enforcement searches guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit also notified the defendants that Meyer and the newspaper plan to add other claims, including that officials wrongly caused the death of Meyer’s mother the day after the raids, which the lawsuit attributes to a stress-induced heart attack.
Gray Television CBS affiliate KCTV Kansas City is adding to its growing weather team, welcoming Melissa Meeder to the First Warn 5 Weather team. She will join First Warn 5 […]
Sinclair Broadcast Group today announced that Matthew Galka will join the company’s Washington, D.C., Bureau as a national correspondent. Galka will provide reporting for The National Desk, Sinclair’s nationally syndicated […]
KTAZ Phoenix and KHRR Tucson, Ariz., part of NBCUniversal Local’s Telemundo Station Group, today appointed Gilberto Dorrego lead anchor for Noticiero Telemundo Arizona, debuting today at 5 p.m., and named José Ángel Galavis senior multimedia journalist and Javier López Álvarez multimedia […]
Cesar Conde, a leader with an MBA but a limited journalism background, is facing the toughest scrutiny of his career.
The media coverage of polls that show President Biden lagging behind former President Trump appears to be getting under the president’s skin. While campaigning around the country, Biden has often complained to rooms full of donors about the coverage of polls, including how often the press focuses only on low survey numbers while ignoring more favorable ones.
