A brutal round of layoffs just broadsided some of the brightest lights of the digital news media. What’s a newly troubled industry to do? The answer may be the same one that other, far larger businesses have long chosen: mergers and consolidation, with the many joining forces to become a larger, more financially stable few.
CNN’s Cuomo Has Best Month So Far
9 p.m. ET is where the big dogs roam. Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow are the top two personalities in cable television. They still are, but Chris Cuomo’s Prime Time quickly established itself as CNN’s most-watched program and, with 1.64 million viewers in January, is having its best month, according to Nielsen.
Aishah Hasnie Leaving WXIN For Fox News
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The Yin And Yang Of Twitter And Journalism
do we have to choose sides in this debate — whether Twitter is inherently bad or inherently good? Not really. It’s entirely likely that Twitter, like so many other things the internet has brought us, is simultaneously hugely positive in many ways and hugely negative in other ways.
KXLY Creates Weekly Drone Feature
When KXLY Spokane got its drone, the staff was expecting to be able to use it to cover all kinds of news stories. What the newsroom didn’t anticipate was how limited the area to fly in was going to be: there are pretty tight FAA regulations around Spokane because of two airports and a military base in the area. Like any good innovator, station executives didn’t let this setback stop them though. They used it as an opportunity to create a new franchise for the station. They weren’t really able to fly in the city, but the area all around — the beautiful scenery of the Inland Northwest — was fair game.
WCIU To Air Black History Month Special
Creating History will feature six individuals and how they are leaving their mark on the world through compassion for others.
Critics are targeting Facebook and Google after a week of high-profile layoffs in the media industry, pointing to their dominance over internet ads as the reason news outlets are struggling. In all, about 1,000 media jobs were cut in the past week.
WGME Studios Flood, Newscast Goes On
NBC Nightly News on Monday tackled Tom Brokaw’s controversial comments about Hispanics made on the network’s Sunday Beltway show Meet the Press. NBC Nightly News’s coverage didn’t tell us anything we did not already know, except it included a statement from NBC News, read by reporter Stephanie Gosk: “Tom’s comments were inaccurate and inappropriate and we’re glad he apologized.”
Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan will sit down with President Donald Trump on Friday. Part of it will air during the regular Face the Nation broadcast Sunday morning, while the rest will be shown around 3:30 p.m. ET during CBS’s pregame coverage.
Cyrus Farivar is joining NBC News as a tech investigative reporter next month in San Francisco. He is a journalist, radio producer and author, who most recently was a senior […]
Newsroom Jobs In Boston And Minneapolis
Hubbard Broadcasting’s KSTP and KSTC in Minneapolis-St. Paul are looking for a news director. WHDH 7 News Boston seeks a Vizrt supervisor and a part-time graphics operator. To post a job on TVNewsCheck, click here.
Anchor Shaina Humphries Joins WTXF News
Shaina Humphries has been hired by Fox O&O WTXF Philadelphia (DMA 4) as anchor of the its 6 and 11 p.m. weeknight newscasts beginning Feb. 18. Most recently, Humphries was […]
NAB To Honor Tom Taylor At NAB Show
The National Association of Broadcasters will present its Spirit of Broadcasting Award to veteran radio industry reporter Tom Taylor during the 2019 NAB Show in Las Vegas. Taylor will accept the award […]
Informed by the unexpected outcome of the 2016 election, will journalists be better equipped to report on a race this time around?
President Trump on Sunday blasted a pair of Fox News reporters over their coverage of the border wall negotiations, claiming that they have “less understanding” than journalists at “fake news CNN & NBC.”
KENS Reporter Talks About Throat Cancer Diagnosis
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC’s Tom Brokaw says he feels terrible that his comments on “Meet the Press” Sunday that Hispanics should work harder at assimilation “offended some members of […]
How WXTV Superserves Audience With WhatsApp
When Univision announced expanded local news apps for seven of its top markets this week, one of the platforms for “integrated social media sharing capabilities” was a channel you won’t usually see in similar English-language-station releases. It’s WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging app, but one that’s little-used by U.S. newsrooms.
WIVB Reporter Jenn Schanz Leaves
The Weather Channel is a locomotive in Entertainment Studios’ portfolio of businesses generating sizable cash-flow profit, enlarging entrée to advertisers because of its heft and, in what is often unappreciated by outsiders, serving as a media-technology engine. To keep the Weather Channel cable network relevant in an era when information is readily available online and via personal devices, the linear basic cable network jazzes up its presentation with flashy media tech.
Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson will present an interview with Roger Stone on Tucker Carlson Tonight Friday evening, Jan 25. During the interview, Stone will react to his indictment as part of […]
The $372.5 million deal will give the university a prime Pennsylvania Avenue address for graduate programs in international relations and other fields and enable the struggling cultural institution devoted to news and the First Amendment to seek a new home in the Washington area.
Cheryl Carson Becomes WJLA News Director
Cheryl Carson will start Feb. 11 as news director for Sinclair Broadcasting’s ABC affiliate WJLA in Washington. She joins from KING-KONG Seattle and succeeds Mitch Jacob who left in November after four years as ND.
