Journalism

Congress modified the PPP rules so that local newspapers and broadcasters could receive the money. The Times received the maximum amount.

President Joe Biden’s honeymoon with the press may be officially over about two months into his term. The Society of Professional Journalists on Tuesday (March 23) called on the Department of Homeland Security to stop blocking media access to border facilities, condemning the action as a failure for the new president.

After creating a white paper based on working groups, the new LMC moves to offer a scalable, privacy-compliant consumer path to news, increased value for advertisers and enhanced monetization for publishers.

Barely two months into the post-Trump era, news outlets are losing much of the audience and readership they gained during his chaotic presidency. In other words, journalism’s Trump bump may be giving way to a slump.

Station groups can capitalize on shifts in the mobile advertising landscape by building in a subscription revenue stream, according to executives from The Weather Company, who will appear on a TVNewsCheck webinar on April 27 at 3 p.m. ET. The event will examine how the Max Mobile white label app that many broadcasters offer their followers can use artificial intelligence to invite, at just the right time based on user behavior, an upgrade to premium. Join us by registering here.

Fox News Channel’s Janice Dean isn’t a political commentator — she’s Fox’s senior meteorologist. In the past year, though, a searing personal loss has transformed her into a fighter for families who believe that a Cuomo-backed policy encouraging the transfer of COVID-19 positive patients into nursing homes was a deadly error.

New jobs post to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a news director, a news digital content manager, and a systems engineer.

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for director of the Pulliam Center at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind.

Responsive and responsible news coverage, marketing that highlighted its on-air talent, new news franchises and a deep freeze lifted KHOU late news to the top during the February ratings period.

She has a daily newsletter. She has a podcast. She produces original journalism on her website. Is there anything Katie Couric isn’t doing?

Peter Saiers has been named news director of KTLA, Nexstar’s CW affiliate in Los Angeles. Saiers, most recently news director at KING Seattle, succeeds Jason Ball, who held the post for 12½ years and announced plans to leave in February.

A senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said that liberal media bias — “nearly all television — network and cable — is a Democratic Party trumpet,” for example — has resulted in such abuse of the landmark Times v. Sullivan requirement that speech relating to public officials has to show actual malice to be actionably defamatory that the longstanding precedent should be overturned.