Journalism

CBS TV Stations boss Jennifer Mitchell is offering her and the company’s “full support” to its KPIX San Francisco on-air reporter Betty Yu after an attack Wednesday by a conservative YouTube host. Just back online after a one-week suspension from the Google-owned platform for violating YouTube’s hate speech policy in a tirade against the trans community, Steven Crowder used a segment on In-N-Out Burger shuttering its only Bay Area outlet over vaccination status requirement to mock and belittle Yu.

The job of the modern TV-news anchor may have less to do with TV as information junkies get their fixes and facts from a wider array of media venues. The days of watching a popular anchor like Dan Rather solely on a broadcast program like venerable CBS Evening News are quickly fading. The rise of streaming video has created new opportunities for journalists and the venues they fill with content.

Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s campaign is hitting back at ABC affiliate WJLA Washington after the outlet wrote that he “abruptly ended” an interview with one of its reporters on Tuesday. In the interview with the former governor, McAuliffe got up to leave after a member of his staff said “we’re already over time.”

Cavuto, who learned of the test results after Monday’s episode of Your World with Neil Cavuto, wasn’t on the air Tuesday. “While I’m somewhat stunned by this news, doctors tell me I’m lucky as well. Had I not been vaccinated, and with all my medical issues, this would be a far more dire situation,” Cavuto said in a statement released by Fox News.

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.