Journalism

Fox’s Detroit O&O led in social media actions in the market over the last six months according to data from audience insight firm Shareablee. Why? Jay Dillon, WJBK’s senior web producer, says “We look for the local news that our audience is interested in. We are very in tune with what our audience is engaged with; what stories will drive traffic. We just push our local content first and foremost.” And besides being local, the focus is on content that’s unique to the station.

Hearst-owned NBC affiliate KCRA Sacramento, Calif. (DMA 20), will offer more morning news on weekdays. On Monday, April 23, KCRA 3 Morning News will begin at 4 a.m., providing an […]

The controversy over Sinclair Broadcast Group’s media-bashing promo has quieted down. But the headache isn’t going away.

NEW YORK (AP) — Newsmax on Monday hired a former Fox News Channel executive to run its television operation, a sign that the media company is looking to become more […]

Conservative commentator Jamie Allman has resigned from Sinclair’s  St. Louis ABC affiliate following a tweet he wrote that made lewd references to violating Parkland teen David Hogg with a “hot poker,”

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel’s Laura Ingraham returned to work with defiance Monday, denouncing a “Stalinist” effort by liberals to stifle the free speech of conservatives and promising […]

KUSI News San Diego is looking for an executive producer. WHDH Boston seeks a senior producer. A website developer/graphic designer is needed for a Mid-Atlantic TV station. To see all job openings, visit our Media Job Center here.

With the addition of 42 more hours, FTS says it will broadcast more local news than any other station group with over 965 hours of local news per week.

Some of the topics Katie Couric picked a year ago to explore in her new National Geographic series, like gender inequality and racial attitudes as reflected in the debate over Confederate statues, became more prominent after she started working on the America Inside Out.

Sinclair Broadcast Group today issued a second response to the uproar generated by its requiring anchors at its stations to read a promotional announcement that decried the “troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing our country.”

AP Playbook is a cloud-hosted software platform designed and developed by the same team responsible for AP’s news production software AP ENPS, with which it is compatible.

Several of the top journalism schools in the country sent a letter to the Sinclair Broadcast Group Friday objecting to the company’s forcing dozens of its anchors to read a centrally-scripted message for a promotional video on “fake” news.

A new Knight Foundation study finds good news for local TV broadcasters in the future information landscape, suggesting they’ll have the dominant role. Their more aggressive presence on social media may be prodding that along.

The web is closing in on television as a news source for U.S. adults, but the Pew Research Center points to signs that local TV news still has a healthy standing and engenders more trust among viewers.

The Department of Homeland Security wants to track the comings and goings of journalists, bloggers and other “media influencers” through a database. The DHS’s “Media Monitoring” plan would give the contracting company “24/7 access to a password protected, media influencer database, including journalists, editors, correspondents, social media influencers, bloggers etc.” in order to “identify any and all media coverage related to the Department of Homeland Security or a particular event.”

Mark Neerman: “If you look at the words, there is nothing wrong with it…. It was only a promo.” However, he added: “When we do it again next time, we will probably give local stations more freedom to come up with the messaging.”

The White House announced President Trump will, for the second year in a row, skip the White House Correspondents’ Association annual dinner. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will represent the president at the dinner April 28.

Deadspin’s spot-on video exposed Sinclair’s top-down right-wing news agenda for all to see. But Sinclair’s problem is not that it has a point a view, but that it is pressing its news pros to join in promulgating it. You don’t create a great news organization by pitting your anchors, reporters and producers against their own ethics. Or, by opening them up to ridicule. This fiasco did both.

“Broadcasters are competing for viewers and advertisers against gigantic multinational players,” NAB CEO Gordon Smith says ahead of the association’s annual bash, taking place at the Las Vegas Convention Center April 7-12.