Tamron Hall is moving to a new part of the Walt Disney empire. The news and talk show veteran, whose current program has been syndicated by Disney since its launch in the fall of 2019, will now be part of ABC News, according to a person familiar with the matter, adding another daytime talk program to the news division’s portfolio.
Taliban fighters searching for a Deutsche Welle journalist in Afghanistan shot dead a member of his family and seriously injured another, Germany’s international public broadcaster reported. “It is evident that the Taliban are already carrying out organized searches for journalists, both in Kabul and in the provinces. We are running out of time!” said Deutsche Welle Director General Peter Limbourg on Thursday.
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Ward, 41, has roamed the streets of Kabul with her crew for days covering the U.S. withdrawal of troops and the Taliban’s lightning-speed takeover of the country. Her dispatches from Kabul have shed light on the chaotic nature of the U.S. pull-out, the tense mood as the Taliban retakes power and the plight of the scores of Afghan civilians looking for a way out of the country.
Gray’s Television moves her up from assistant ND at its Minnesota NBC-CBS affiliate.
The Radio Television Digital News Association will present Susan Zirinsky with the 2021 Paul White Award for her achievements in and contributions to the field of electronic journalism. The award-winning broadcast journalist first joined CBS News in the 1970s at the age of 20 two weeks after the Watergate scandal. In 2019, after a nearly 50-year tenure, she was appointed the first female president and senior executive producer of CBS News, which she held until April 2021. She now has a production partnership with ViacomCBS.
Rashida Jones, MSNBC president, today announced staff additions and a promotion to its digital staff. Clarissa Pharr is being promoted to senior opinion editor. She has spent the past 11 months […]
Fox News, whose top personalities have for months assailed the concept of vaccine passports and argued that asking about vaccine status amounts to a major intrusion of privacy, told employees this week that they must disclose their vaccination status to the company. In a Tuesday memo updating staff on COVID-19 procedures, Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said that the company has “asked all employees — whether on site as part of our essential workforce or working remotely — to upload their vaccination status” into an internal database.
Mike Milhaven, Jill Billante and Lisa Crivelli will executive produce the new streaming news shows on NBC News Now. Milhaven is the lone hire from outside of the NBC News family, he joins from ABC News, where he was a producer on Good Morning America.
Fox Weather, Fox News Media’s new AVOD streaming weather service launching this fall, has signed three reporters and five multimedia journalists. Correspondents Nicole Valdes, Steve Bender and Max Gorden will provide live, breaking news coverage on developing weather […]
Robert Allbritton, the owner of Politico, is weighing a lucrative payday against maintaining full control over a widely read Washington news site.
Weigel Broadcasting’s CBS affiliate WDJT Milwaukee is expanding its CBS 58 Morning News to weekends. Beginning Saturday, Sept. 18, it will add an hour every Saturday and Sunday morning beginning […]
Spectrum Networks has launched its first digital-only local news platform in a non-Spectrum News linear TV market, bringing Spectrum’s style of local reporting and community-based journalism exclusively to its video […]
AccuWeather Now, the newly launched video streaming product from AccuWeather, is now available on The Roku Channel, the home for free and premium content on the Roku platform. The Roku Channel’s […]
MSNBC and Rachel Maddow have again prevailed in a libel suit brought by Herring Networks, the owner of One America News Network (OAN). On Tuesday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s ruling that Maddow’s statement about the Trump-friendly network isn’t actionable.
