The Tegna Foundation, the charitable foundation sponsored by Tegna Inc., today approved a slate of nine grants to support professional development opportunities and training for the next generation of diverse […]
His hyperbolic, stylized writing work was a gleeful fusillade of exclamation points, italics and improbable words. An ingenious phrase maker, he helped brand such expressions as “radical chic” for rich liberals’ fascination with revolutionaries; and the “Me” generation, defining the self-absorbed baby boomers of the 1970s. He was 88.
WAFB Rules Social Media In Baton Rouge
Raycom’s CBS affiliate in the Louisiana capital has dominated social media actions on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram over the past six months. Making sure social is a team effort across the station and paying attention to was users want is key. The station’s marketing department is also using Facebook to create specially edited messages to recruit news viewers to its television broadcasts.
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Symptoms At NBC Hint At Larger Sickness
Something is wrong at NBC, and by the traditional standard that the person at the top sets the tone and bears ultimate responsibility, it’s hard to absolve NBC Chairman Andy Lack. Given NBC’s prominence, its foibles hurt not only the network itself, its own journalists, and its viewers. Such self-sabotage also hurts American journalism overall at a time when there are more than enough external enemies waiting to pounce.
Stories That Touch Hearts Are Gold For Tegna
Heart Threads started as a Facebook feature at various Tegna stations highlighting the best in people and then was spotlighted on air, has become something much bigger. Tegna took the individual stories, re-packaged them with Heart Threads branding, and added music and text for all of the group’s stations to share. Now Tegna is starting to monetize the Heart Threads stories, developing a new digital revenue stream and a new advertising opportunity for customers that want to be aligned with feel-good content.
KOMO, Contractor Point Fingers Over Copter Crash
KMTV Drops ‘Morning Blend’ For ‘Pickler & Ben’
He will oversee news operations at KITV Honolulu; WSEE and WICU Erie, Pa.; WENY Elmira, N.Y.; Lilly Broadcasting’s Washington Bureau, and Lilly’s stations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
WRMD Tampa, Fla. (DMA 13), is rebranding from “Telemundo Tampa” to “Telemundo 49,” effective immediately. The station also unveiled it new website telemundo49.com and mobile app “Telemundo 49.” With the launch […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The Pulitzer Prize Board said Thursday it will launch an independent review of the misconduct allegations against Junot Diaz, and that the author will relinquish the […]
Industry executive Dan Salamone is appointed to the newly-created position overseeing Nexstar’s various broadcast and digital local content initiatives.
The Daily has given rise to The Weekly, a documentary series for FX (and Hulu). The show is part of a Times initiative in the entertainment world.
As Sinclair Broadcast Group ramps up its plans to build a competitor to Fox News, the two companies are both interested in the services of a programming executive with a very notable distinction: close friend to Sean Hannity — Tribune Media’s Sean Compton.
Megyn Kelly Today has become something of a punching bag since it premiered in the 9 a.m. hour last September, with critics bashing the show’s format and ratings. And while it’s true that ratings are down from what the 9 a.m. hour had been delivering pre-Kelly, the new show is actually helping NBC’s bottom line more than its predecessor.
WTIC To Air News Stories About Hope
KAPP-KVEW Chief Meteorologist Receives Weather Certification
Kristin Walls, chief meteorologist for Morgan Murphey Media’s KAPP-KVEW, the ABC affiliate in Yakima/Tri-Cities, Wash. (DMa 114), recently received certification from the American Meteorological Society (AMS). Walls completed the Certified […]
President Trump has mused privately during his nearly 16 months in office about revoking reporters’ press credentials, according to multiple people familiar with his comments. On Wednesday, he brought it up publicly, tweeting “take away credentials?” as a question.
