According to Fox News Channel, Kelly no longer has ties to the 21st Century Fox owned cable news outlet. But a spokeswoman for the popular anchor says she is still working out final details with her soon-to-be-former employer.
Apparently reporters aren’t the only ones interested in Donald Trump’s tax returns. As MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow announced she had posted Trump’s 2005 federal income tax return on her site, Maddowblog.com, and on DCReport.org, the site run by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston, both crashed, presumabily under the influx of web traffic.
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A federal grand jury is expected to soon hear testimony linked to harassment claims at Fox News. But the dismissal of Preet Bharara may complicate the inquiry.
Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson will interview President Donald Trump in what’s being billed as “a wide-ranging conversation” that will air during Wednesday’s edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight. Carlson’s first one-on-one sit-down with Trump since Election Day will occur in Detroit.
Turbocharged ratings for cable news and broadcast shows like Saturday Night Live are a surprise even to seen-it-all executives who had been bracing for a plunge in viewership after the excitement of the election.
In late February, 21st Century Fox reached a settlement worth more than $2.5 million with Tamara Holder, a former Fox News contributor who reported that she was sexually assaulted by an executive at company headquarters two years ago, according to people briefed on the agreement.
CNN three years ago launched CNNgo as a digital-streaming extension to its core TV service — available only to pay TV subscribers. Now the Turner-owned news cabler is shfiting gears to expand CNNgo’s reach to “cord-nevers” with longer-form original productions that are free to anyone, whether or not they have a cable or satellite TV subscription.
Organized labor has begun a major push to unionize writers, producers and on-air talent who work on Vice Media’s video and TV programming, after successfully organizing digital newsrooms in recent years.
In TV news circles, producer Jonathan Wald has seen pretty much everything, serving as a senior hand at programs ranging from NBC’s Today to CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight. Now he will step up to a broader role at MSNBC as SVP of programming and development.
The usual declines aren’t happening. All three cable news networks see significant advertising gains in January, and broadcast news has benefited as well. Chalk it up to all the Trump drama.
James O’Keefe, a self-described “guerrilla journalist, filmmaker and muckraker” who runs the media watchdog site Project Veritas, today released audio that he says are conversations that took place inside CNN newsrooms in 2009. O’Keefe says he’s also offering $10,000 to anyone who is able to provide him with additional content that “exposes media malfeasance.”
NEW YORK (AP) — Alan Colmes, the radio and television host and commentator best known as the amiable liberal foil to the hard-right Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel, […]
Trump’s Media Obsession Endangers All Of Us
Paul Waldman: “The news media is where Trump looks for validation, and where he learns what he should care about or be angered by. For all his tweets about “fake news” and his attacks on the very idea of a free press that exists to do something other than sing his praises, Trump is the most media-obsessed president we’ve ever seen. And that’s not going to change.”
NEW YORK (AP) — Brenda Buttner, host of Fox News Channel’s “Bulls and Bears” has died after a battle with cancer. She was 55. Buttner served as CNBC’s Washington correspondent […]
Following President Donald Trump‘s press conference on Thursday, in which he referred to reports of his campaign’s contact with Russia as “fake news,” Shepard Smith delivered a scathing response. The Fox News anchor — one of the few voices at the conservative network willing to take Trump to task — began by defending rival CNN reporter Jim Acosta, whose attempts to ask Trump about the recent White House leaks turned into 10 minutes of the president attacking him, as well as the entire news organization.
President Trump early Wednesday blasted the “fake news media” and leaks from the intelligence community after reports emerged that senior aides with his presidential campaign were in contact with Russian officials. Trump in his first tweet of the morning said the “fake news media” is “going crazy with conspiracy theories and blind hatred.” Trump slammed MSNBC and CNN, but said Fox News’s Fox & Friends is “great!”
President Donald Trump managed to avoid questions about hot-button issues facing the White House — such as the future of national security adviser Michael Flynn and a North Korean missile launch — in a news conference Monday with Canadian Prime MInister Justin Trudeau.
