Journalism

Only weeks after she resigned as news director of WGN Chicago and CLTV, Jennifer Lyons has reclaimed her old job at the Tribune Broadcasting operations.

As the station group’s VP of local content development, Jerry Walsh explains how his four-person team is working to make every Nexstar station a better local news producer and programmer. In addition, he’s the newly minted chairman of RTDNA and he offers his take on the evolving mission of that group.

With viewers reaching for the smartphone instead of the TV remote for news, a parade of anchors burnishes the network’s a.m. appeal.

With the likelihood that Trump will keep up a running commentary on the Democrats’ nomination process — he’s already assigned a derisive nickname to one potential challenger — journalists will have to consider how much attention should be paid to it, said NBC’s Chuck Todd, moderator of the 71-year-old Sunday public affairs show Meet the Press.

John Kiesewetter: When WKRC Cincinnati reporter Larry Davis retired in July after 35 years covering Cincinnati news — a month after Deb Dixon retired after 44 years at the station — I posed the question: Are we witnessing a changing of the guard at Channel 12, the station with Cincinnati’s most veteran reporting staff? Today the answer is: Yes, definitely. Why? In my opinion, there are three factors — all tracing directly to the station’s owner, Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Gray President-CEO Hilton Howell: “Our station footprint spans the entire U.S. and nearly all of the most politically contested areas in this cycle. We are therefore uniquely positioned to offer valuable, unbiased insights into how the makeup of Congress might shift this election.”

In an open letter to Christine Blasey Ford, the broadcast journalist reveals that she was sexually assaulted in college by her doctor, the same doctor who delivered her.