One year ago this week, KGW Portland, Ore., anchor Dan Haggerty was part of a small team that took a big risk. The Tegna NBC affiliate transformed its legacy 6 p.m. newscast into a daring experiment called The Story With Dan Haggerty. The broadcast is a unique mix of in-depth reporting, investigations, interviews, audience feedback, humor, and opinion — all delivered in Haggerty’s signature style. The KGW team shares lessons learned aspects of The Story’s story that might be relevant to other newsrooms seeking to break the mold.
In an industrywide changing of the guard, other big newsroom jobs that have come open include the No. 1 slots at Vox, HuffPost and Wired. Above, Martin Baron, the executive editor of The Washington Post, announced this week that he was stepping down after a 45-year career.
He joins Nexstar from CBS Evening News, where for the last year he contributed to the Washington launch of CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell as lead Washington writer, focusing on the broadcast’s coverage of politics.
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ABC News President James Goldston announced today that he would step down from his post on March 31. “It’s a really tough decision. I’ve loved every day of my 17 years at ABC News, but in recent times I’ve always assumed that after this extraordinary election cycle, which we’ve covered at a full sprint for four years, it would be time for a change.”
The Capitol insurrection is but one example of a story that might not have seemed as much a surprise if more journalists were attuned to communities outside of the power centers, veteran NBC newsman Tom Brokaw says. Television news is “much, much too wedded to the East Coast and West Coast only” and needs to expand its presence across the country.
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Chris Stirewalt: “Having worked in cable news for more than a decade after a wonderfully misspent youth in newspapers, I can tell you the result: a nation of news consumers both overfed and malnourished. Americans gorge themselves daily on empty informational calories, indulging their sugar fixes of self-affirming half-truths and even outright lies.”
Fox News Media has signed civil rights lawyer Leo Terrell as a contributor to provide commentary and analysis across all platforms, including Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network. In […]
The Good Morning America host is currently not experiencing any severe symptoms from COVID-19, according to people familiar with the situation. Strahan, who also provides analysis on the Fox NFL Sunday pregame show, appeared remotely during last Sunday’s NFC championship game.
Conservative TV host Eric Bolling is leaving Sinclair Broadcast Group, which has been home to his Sunday morning show America This Week since 2019. Sinclair said the show, which has been sent to stations that the company owns in 81 markets across the country, will shut down after this week’s episode “as Eric has decided to pursue other professional opportunities.”
A new Windows-based application is joining the Dejero LivePlus family of mobile news apps, that is used daily by journalists all over the world, to simplify and enhance the quality […]
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Tom Llamas, the weekend anchor of ABC’s World News Tonight, has dramatically quit the network to move to rival NBC. Llamas, 41, is being lined up for a wide-ranging role across NBC News that involves work across the network’s news shows, streaming services and MSNBC.
Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany in financial disclosure documents published Tuesday indicated that she had an agreement in place to join Fox News this month, but a source familiar with the matter says those discussions are now on hold.
Fox News is hiring Larry Kudlow, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, as contributor and host of a weekday program on its business network. Kudlow will start on Feb. 8.
E.W. Scripps Co. and its CEO Adam Symson are taking National News Literacy Week seriously. The company’s local local and national outlets are running public service announcements that aim to fight back fake news by urging viewers to be well informed by raising their news literacy fitness.
In an effort to combat misinformation, Twitter says it hopes to build a community of “Birdwatchers” that can eventually help moderate and label tweets in its main product.
Martin Baron, executive editor of the Washington Post and recipient of multiple Pulitzer Prizes over the course of his career, announced his retirement today. Baron spearheaded Spotlight, the Boston Globe’s investigation into attempts by the Catholic Church to cover-up sexual abuse, and oversaw the Post’s editorial transformation under Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — turning it from a regional paper into a national brand.
