Journalism

Online abuse against women is on the rise, but why aren’t the police, the government and social media companies doing more to stop it?

Inside Alden Global Capital — The model is simple: gut the staff, sell the real estate, jack up subscription prices and wring out as much cash as possible.

Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the largest TV station operators in the US, said Monday that a ransomware incident is disrupting some of its office and operational networks. The disturbance impeded the production of local newscasts throughout the day on Sunday and again on Monday, according to staffers at some TV stations.

Of the 34 incidents of equipment damage captured in the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker database so far in 2021, at least 25 involved cameras or camera equipment; almost all of these followed harassment because the journalist was photographing or filming. In 2020, the Tracker documented more than 50 instances of damaged camera equipment. That doesn’t include the number of cell phones damaged since tracking began, many of which are used by journalists to film.

A high-flying German media giant is ahead on digital media but seems stuck in the past when it comes to the workplace and deal-making.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a news producer, a traffic coordinator and a digital sales manager for stations owned by Hearst, Nexstar and the Get After It Media network.

The CNN anchor and chief national affairs analyst recently underwent a four-hour operation to remove what turned out to be a benign brain tumor. But getting to that diagnosis has been a long journey.

The WarnerMedia cable-news outlet typically runs a significant chunk of promotions for its programming on its own air and in other venues owned by its parent company. Today, it’s airing an initial ad to entice loyal viewers to consider CNN+, its new video-streaming service slated to launch in 2022.

If WOIO has its way, Northeast Ohio Hispanic residents will wake up and go to bed watching the region’s first Telemundo station. Starting in January, owner Gray is launching a sister station, WTCL, and offering local news in Spanish, starting with newscasts at 6 and 11 p.m. Univision has owned a station in the market for 20 years, but it doesn’t produce any local newscasts.

TVNewsCheck‘s Michael Depp talks with NBC LX’s Fernando Hurtado about Connect the Dots, a new series that pulls back the curtain on the reporting process and seeks to court younger audiences by veering away from news conventions. Watch the Connect the Dots series here.

Stephanopoulos will debut two long-form programs on Hulu, all part of a new production company ABC News is launching with him.  George Stephanopoulos Productions is expected to specialize in nonfiction projects that include news-making interviews as well as investigative journalism.

Pittsburgh is known as one of the truly competitive TV markets in the nation, and a new battleground has emerged in the 4 p.m. hour. KDKA (above) has run 4 p.m. news since 2002, while WTAE debuted an hour-long program in July and WPXI did so in mid-September.