Journalism

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro has a new book to promote, but her employer isn’t making it easy on her. During a radio interview with Sebastian Gorka on Tuesday, Pirro said that Fox has restricted her outside media appearances to promote the book, Radicals, Resistance, and Revenge: The Left’s Plot to Remake America.

On Wednesday, ABC News President James Goldston announced Julia Redpath has been named the executive producer of Sunday morning current affairs This Week.

A sobering trip inside Louisiana State Penitentiary frames Friday’s Dateline NBC report about 1990s-era “tough on crime” legislation and what it has meant for society today. The show is repeated Sunday night on MSNBC, along with a Holt-moderated town hall meeting from inside another well-known prison, New York’s Sing Sing.

Full Court Press with Greta Van Susteren debutes Sept. 8. It’s cleared in over 76% of the country in major markets including New York, Washington, Los Angeles and all of Gray’s 93 markets.

Margaret Sullivan: “President Trump requires no translation or interpretation when it comes to his plan for going after national news outlets as Campaign 2020 kicks into high gear. On Monday, he made his intentions clear in a couple of rambling, overcapitalized tweets: ‘Our real opponent is not the Democrats, or the dwindling number of Republicans that lost their way and got left behind.’ No, he wrote, ‘our primary opponent is the Fake News Media.’ ”

As Hurricane Dorian headed toward the Florida coast, reporters for news networks and local stations fanned out along the state’s southeastern coastline but also were adjusting their plans to cover the devastation and relief efforts in the area so far hardest hit: the Bahamas.

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the White House to restore the hard pass of Playboy’s correspondent Brian Karem, whose credentials were suspended after an incident in July in which he got in argument with former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka following a Rose Garden ceremony.

The Brown-Maag family, owner of NBC affiliate WFMJ Youngstown, Ohio, ceased publication of the Youngstown Vindicator over the weekend, ending its 150 years of service to the city and surrounding communities. However, Ogden Newspaper’s Tribune Chronicle, in neighboring Trumbull County, has purchased Vindicator assets with the promise of a Youngstown edition.

“Trust me.” That probably didn’t work with your high school math teacher, who typically required you to “show your work.” Journalists wanting to improve trust with the audience could apply the same logic. This question of how to build trust in reporting led to a transparency experiment here at Cronkite News at ASU called “Full Circle,” which documented the process of putting the story together. Here’s what viewers had to say.

The Wall Street Journal reports that job cuts at Viceland, some of which took place Thursday, affect about 15 people across multiple departments such as programming, marketing and research. The staff reduction is part of a move away from entertainment and lifestyle programming. Journal subscribers can read the full story here.