Journalism

Dan Shelley, RTDNA executive director: On this occasion of the 110th anniversary of the birth of Murrow – to many, the Father of Broadcast Journalism, and to RTDNA, the legendary figure for whom we name our annual regional and national awards for excellence in broadcast and digital journalism – I’d like to share some little-known facts about the man.

Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Charlotte, N.C., has more than 3.5 million actions on social, 26.5% of the total engagement generated by the DMA, with more than 13.3 million social actions. It’s No. 1 on Facebook, helped by Brad Panovich,the station’s chief meteorologist. “I believe he has the most followers on social media of any one of our meteorologists in the company,” says News Director Matt King.

Honorees represent superior investigative reporting at the local and national levels, profiles from Rohingya to Russia, and vital, life-saving public service reports on women’s health. In addition, an institutional award goes to 60 Minutes.

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner says that “arguably the most important” way LinkedIn stays ahead of fake news and platform abuse is “manual curation and the role of editors.”

Kuba Wuls interviewed 10 Missouri journalists, representing five television stations and one newspaper, who covered the devastating May 22, 2011, Joplin tornado for the master’s thesis “Resources For Tackling Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder In Local Newsrooms,” presented at the Journalism School at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Here Wuls shares a few highlights of the research news managers need to know.

The content value of weather coverge — in both disasters and good times — is being affirmed by growing investments in new digital strategies to deliver better weather news, faster.

Nexstar is looking for a vice president/general manager at WDVM serving the Washington, DC/Hagerstown, MD market.  WBNS Columbus, OH needs a director of news and digital content. To see all job openings, visit our Media Job Center here.

The Vermont senator, who’s been comparing corporate television programming to drugs and accusing it of creating a “nation of morons” since at least 1979 — and musing to friends about creating an alternative news outlet for at least as long — has spent the last year and a half building something close to a small network out of his office in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill.

She will join David Muir on the primetime newsmagazine following Elizabeth Vargas’ departure from the network.

“We are living through an all-out war on truth, facts and reason,” Hillary Clinton said today at the PEN America World Voices Festival. “When leaders deny things we can see with our own eyes, like the size of a crowd at the inauguration, when they refuse to accept settled science when it comes to urgent challenges like climate change … it is the beginning of the end of freedom, and that is not hyperbole. It’s what authoritarian regimes through history have done.”

Telemundo’s WTMO-CD Orlando, Fla. (DMA 18), today appointed Carlos Rausseo news anchor. He will co-anchor the station’s 5, 5:30, 6 and 11 p.m. weekday newscasts alongside Olga Aymat. His first […]

For three years, Suri Crowe worked for a TV station owned by Sinclair. She clashed with management — including over stories about climate change and guns. Her account, detailed in company documents, offers a glimpse at the inner workings of a media giant that has sought to both ingratiate itself to President Donald Trump and cast itself as an apolitical local news provider — a position the documents undermine.

America’s newspapers were already struggling. Now they dread new tariffs on Canadian newsprint that they believe will make a strained situation even worse.

As Facebook’s head of news partnerships, Brown, a former CNN and NBC anchor, is emerging as a surprisingly adept negotiator for her publishing vision at the social network.

Fox News host Sean Hannity, who said Trump’s fixer Michael Cohen ‘knows real estate,’ has a portfolio that includes support from Department of Housing and Urban Development, a fact he did not mention when interviewing secretary Ben Carson last year.

As Colorado’s civic community tries to mount a journalistic rescue mission and buy The Denver Post, it is looking to Salt Lake City and other cities like Boston, Minneapolis and Philadelphia that have seen wealthy residents keep their newspapers viable. What happens in Denver could be a signal to a battered newspaper industry, reeling from dwindling ad revenues, of what the future looks like.