Fox News Channel will present a special, Billy Graham: An Extraordinary Journey, on Sunday, March 11, at 8 p.m. ET. This one-hour show will examine the life of the renowned minister Rev. Billy Graham […]
Before Sam Nunberg’s unprecedented media tour had even ended Monday night, debate broke out over whether networks should have kept airing live interviews with the former Donald Trump aide as he seemed to self-destruct before viewers’ eyes.
Nancy Harmeyer promoted to vice president of domestic bureaus, while Greg Headen has been upped to director of the foreign desk.
Exclusives
The two networks are long and bitter rivals, of course, and have tweaked each other off and on since Fox News’s inception in 1996. But the crossfire has taken on new intensity in the Trump era. Hosts at CNN and Fox now trade blows almost daily about whose coverage or commentary about President Trump is more distorted or unfair.
Fox News has come out victorious in a blockbuster ruling on Tuesday that could cause a sharp derailment in the sharing of clips from the cable network. In the decision, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals analyzes copyright fair use and comes to the conclusion that TVEyes, a media monitoring service, went too far by giving its customers the ability to watch virtually all of Fox News’ content.
A network spokeswoman says that a ssocial media tory that Smith has been let go for his “obvious disrespect for President Trump” is “completely false.” Smith was on the air Monday afternoon in his regular time slot.
The event, led by Jake Tapper, bests cable news during its two-hour run on Wednesday night.
Fox News is set to announce Fox Nation, a stand-alone subscription service available without a cable package. The streaming service, expected to start by the end of the year, would focus primarily on right-leaning commentary, with original shows and cameos by popular personalities like Sean Hannity.
A year ago, CNN was positioning itself as ready to take on Vice and BuzzFeed in the digital space. Now, the company is rightsizing as it prepares for AT&T’s embrace. It’s targeting big savings on the digital side, with as many as 50 jobs around the globe scheduled to be eliminated this week, according to people familiar with the matter, who noted the exact number could still be in flux.
Fox News has removed an online column by EVP and executive editor John Moody following intense criticism online and from gay rights activists, who roundly attacked the piece. Moody had written on Wednesday: “Unless it’s changed overnight, the motto of the Olympics, since 1894, has been ‘Faster, Higher, Stronger.’ It appears the U.S. Olympic Committee would like to change that to ‘Darker, Gayer, Different.’ If your goal is to win medals, that won’t work.”
Charter plans to expand its 24-hour news channel operation to five new markets in 2018: Los Angeles, Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin and Kansas City, according to a company memo.
The FBI on Friday publicly released its files on the late Fox News founder Roger Ailes, who died last May. The release is more than 100 pages and mostly includes a background check that the FBI completed before Ailes worked for President Nixon, and two subsequent “expanded name checks” in 1988 and 1990 for access to the George H.W. Bush White House.
As Death Row Records co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight prepares to defend himself at a murder trial, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge has convened an emergency hearing Tuesday morning to discuss an application by two journalists who have been summoned to testify before a grand jury.
