CW affiliate WPIX New York has hired veteran New York broadcaster Chris Cimino as meteorologist and lifestyle correspondent, effective immediately. Beginning Jan. 17, he will deliver weather forecasts during the […]
Hoda Kotb has tested positive for COVID-19 amid a surge of cases in New York City over the last month. The Today anchor’s breakthrough case was first reported on the NBC morning show Thursday, with co-anchor Craig Melvin confirming the news on air. “She tested positive for COVID but Hoda tells us that she’s doing just fine, and we look forward to having her back very, very soon,” Melvin said during the show’s third hour.
The New York Times will buy The Athletic for $550 million after months of talks, according to a new report from the Information. Representatives for the storied newspaper and the subscription sports news website did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the report, which pointed out that acquiring the smaller site will help the Times move toward its goal of 10 million subscribers by 2025. It currently has about 8.3 million.
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The BBC has named Deborah Turness, former president of NBC News International, to the post of CEO, BBC News and Current Affairs. She will join the BBC from ITN, where she is CEO. As CEO of BBC News, she will have responsibility for a team of around 6,000 people, broadcasting to almost half a billion people around the world in more than 40 languages.
The Jan. 6 select committee has revealed a series of texts where Sean Hannity privately advised former President Donald Trump before, during and after the assault, and is seeking his insight about what happened in those days. The popular Fox News Channel primetime host hasn’t said what he will do, but he’s slammed the congressional probe as a partisan witch hunt. His lawyer has raised First Amendment concerns about the request.
As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, many news and other television productions are returning to remote or partially remote productions. Stations and networks are taking differing approaches and the configurations also often change from production to production.
Thirteen women are suing the Black News Channel for gender discrimination, accusing the Florida-based network of unequal pay for female employees and a workplace culture that forced them “to conform to sexist or misogynistic stereotypes about how women are supposed to behave.”
Mark Neerman is no longer with San Francisco CBS O&O KPIX. The station did not release any other details. Neerman started working at KPIX in September 2018.
Susan Zirinsky, former CBS News president, is back in a job where she can do one of her favorite things: tell a few stories. Zirinsky heads See It Now Studios, an independent production unit that she expects to launch documentary films and series for a range of ViacomCBS properties as well as outside parties. “I’m not a sliver of the network, or producing just for the inside,” she says. “My mandate is to be a studio.”
Scripps-owned ABC affiliate WTXL Tallahassee, Fla., has named newsroom veteran Karah Bailey Sunrise anchor. She has been a staple at WTXL, starting as an intern in 2016 before joining as […]
Engagement with news content plummeted last year compared to 2020, and given the ongoing decline in interest in news about COVID-19 and politics, it doesn’t look like 2022 will be much better. Primetime news viewership was down 36% across the three major cable networks, Fox News, CNN and MSNBC, with the steepest decline during that time frame happening at CNN, per Nielsen ratings. Viewership was also down for broadcast networks’ evening news shows, but the declines weren’t as drastic.
In a letter to the Fox News personality, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, Democratic chairman of the House panel investigating the Capitol insurrection, said the panel wants to question him regarding his communications with former President Donald Trump, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and others in Trump’s orbit in the days surrounding the evemt.
Telemundo Utah (KULX-KTMW Salt Lake City), has named Luis F. Prado a multimedia journalist for Noticiero Telemundo Utah. The newscast airs Monday through Friday at 5 and 10 p.m. His on-air debut […]
Just 10 days into Gray’s ownership of WGCL, the Atlanta-based company wooed Monica Kaufman Pearson out of retirement to join the CBS affiliate. Pearson is well-known in Atlanta for her 37 years as news anchor on WSB, where she was the first Black female evening anchor in the city.
How The Media Can Preserve Democracy
Margaret Sullivan: “In the year since the Jan. 6 insurrection, mainstream journalists have done a lot of things right. And yet, something crucial is missing. For the most part, news organizations are not making democracy-under-siege a central focus of the work they present to the public.”
MLB Network has cut ties with insider Ken Rosenthal that is believed to be the end result of acrimony that peaked in the summer of 2020 after Rosenthal criticized MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred.
