Journalism

If Jonathan Adkins, who oversees the broadcast news operation at Cleveland’s WKYC, wants to see the dramatic effects of COVID-19 on TV news production, all he has to do is go downstairs. “If a year ago, you had told me I could sit in my basement in my house and see 16 live feeds from the field, have direct interaction with the talent on the set, and be able to watch feeds and our broadcasts with less than a half second delay, I would have thought you were crazy,” he says. Adkins can even re-set the teleprompter from home. “If we go back to the way things were, we failed.” Above, part of the makeshift control room in Adkins’ basement.

A rejuvenated cable TV brand name is a gavel-to-gavel source for the highly anticipated case.

Anchor Bret Baier has renewed his contract with Fox News Channel, extending a pact that was last negotiated in 2019. The deal will keep Baier at the network through 2025 and will maintain his roles as anchor and executive editor of the Fox Corp. network’s Special Report and as the outlet’s chief political anchor.

Beginning April 5, the 10-minute weekday digicast exclusively for Roku, Apple TV and streaming audiences will feature local and national headlines, the latest weather, in-depth reporting and entertainment and lifestyle programming.

She may not be on the masthead, but Soon-Shiong has become a regular voice in the Los Angeles Times newsroom. That might normally be cause for tension, but many staffers say it’s a welcome change.

ABC owned stations has formed a content team focusing on race and culture. The station group says the team will publish stories from underrepresented and marginalized communities across multiple platforms for both daily news coverage and special projects.

Getting into streaming is “pretty critical,” for TV news operations, says Jonathan Dunn, global leader of McKinsey’s consumer, technology and media practice. Revenue from advertising and distribution is in decline, he says, and the mainstream news outlets by and large have launched “nonthreatening, non-cannibalizing incremental products and services — a little bit of extra content to serve the super fans.” Suddenly, a lot of new ideas are coming to the surface.

Lester Holt, the anchor of NBC Nightly News, argued Tuesday that news organizations and the journalists they employ should do everything they can to call out misinformation permeating the political media ecosystem and separate facts from falsehoods forcefully to combat that trend.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show ranks first among programs, while CNN scores a demographic win and Fox News tops primetime in total viewers.

Prosecutor Jerry Blackwell and defense attorney Eric Nelson’s arguments were shown live on at least 12 TV networks on Monday: ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, HLN, Black News Channel, CourtTV, CSPAN, the Law & Crime Network and Newsmax. Video also streamed on affiliated livestreams for many of those networks, along with TheRoot.com and PBS’s NewsHour. Websites for The New York Times and Washington Post streamed it on their homepages, and The Associated Press offered its subscribers a livestream of the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer accused in the death of George Floyd.

The veteran journalist and media executive will serve as Scripps Washington deputy bureau chief and executive producer of investigations.

Lara Trump, a former adviser to Donald Trump’s re-election campaign who is married to the former president’s son Eric, is the latest contributor added to Fox News’ roster. The announcement came Monday during Fox & Friends.