A Harvard Institute of Politics poll finds that while 18-29-year-olds are wary of all news sources, they’re still giving local TV stations a chance. About one-third (33%) turn to local TV news, while 30% use Facebook and 27% tune into CNN. A little less than a third (27%) scroll through Instagram to stay informed.
Lester Holt has been named managing editor of NBC Nightly News, which he has anchored since 2015. The announcement of the managing editor title was made by NBC News President Noah Oppenheim. Holt also is said to have signed a contract extension, something that is typical when new titles are announced. Oppenheim wrote in a memo to staffers that “in recognition of Lester’s role driving every aspect of the Nightly News broadcast, he has been named managing editor of Nightly, effective immediately.”
Standard Media Group’s ABC affiliate WLNE Providence, R.I., has added K.C. Kantz to its Good Morning Providence team. He will join veteran anchor Doreen Scanlon and meteorologist Chelsea Priest starting […]
He joins the Bahakel CW affiliate in Charlotte, N.C., from WXMI Grand Rapids, Mich.
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News’ Kristen Welker, shortly before she expects the birth of a daughter through a surrogate, is revealing the struggles with infertility that she and her […]
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TVNewsCheck Editor Michael Depp talks with Mariel Myers, Nzinga Blake and Porsha Grant, executive producers of ABC Owned Television Stations’ new race and culture reporting team, about the project’s bold goals to bring depth and context to reporting on underrepresented communities across the group’s eight stations.
Iowa Broadcasters Honor KGAN’s News Coverage
Breaking news: We face a climate “emergency” according to everyone from the heads of the European Union to the Pope. That realization can be overwhelming. After all, climate change is a planet-sized problem. But we see and experience the effects of climate change locally. That’s why local reporting is the most direct way to connect people in our communities to the real-world impacts of climate change. It’s also the most direct path to empower communities with reporting on solutions, and meaningful actions we can take individually and collectively.
KCCI Earns Awards From Iowa Broadcasters
NewsNation, Nexstar Media Group’s cable network has expanded its nationwide network with a new Atlanta bureau. Former Houston-based reporter Janel Forte will be joining the bureau as its first correspondent. […]
AccuWeather Network has added three new team members. Jessica Pash comes to AccuWeather after spending two years as a meteorologist for WPMT York, Pa. Prior to that, Pash was a […]
Tucker Carlson’s Rhetoric Is Dangerous. That Seems Just Fine With Fox News
He and his guests questioned the fairness of the Chauvin verdict shortly after it came in. That irresponsibility seems OK with his bosses.
As New York City slowly reopens for business, one of the world’s most popular and historic business television studios is making plans to reopen as well. The floor of the New York Stock Exchange, which has been closed to the media since March of last year because of the COVID-19 epidemic, could be eyeing a possible September return, according to people with direct knowledge of the Big Board’s thinking on the matter.
Newsrooms have been dominating the news lately. Just last week alone, both ABC News and CBS News named new leaders and Reuters News Service tapped a new editor-in-chief. Earlier this year, MSNBC installed a new president to succeed veteran Phil Griffin, who had worked at the network since its launch in 1996. The recent changes in the senior ranks of these various news outlets reflect a much more diverse field of executives — a welcome change to what has largely been a white male-governed business for decades.
Over 4 million people tuned into CNN Tuesday between 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. ET to see Derek Chauvin convicted.
