NEW YORK (AP) — With President Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey the week’s big story, MSNBC had one of its best ratings weeks in memory – perhaps […]
After Brzezinski told CNN on air that there was nothing that Kellyanne Conway “brings to the table that’s honest,” CNN called her criticism a “gratuitous shot.”
President Donald Trump says he thinks CNN’s Chris Cuomo looks like a “chained lunatic” on television. CNN’s Don Lemon is “perhaps the dumbest person is broadcasting” and CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert is a “no-talent guy” who talks “filthy.”
A “fake news” graphic superimposed over the faces of news anchors in the Trump commercial was cited by CNN, ABC and NBC for not airing the ad. The networks contend that makes it inaccurate, and ABC said it represents a personal attack.
A federal appellate court has agreed with CNN in a dispute over whether its iTunes app violated a federal privacy law by allegedly sharing data about consumers with the analytics company Bango.
President Trump’s campaign is criticizing CNN for refusing to air an advertisement touting the president’s achievements during his first 100 days in office, saying the network doesn’t want it because the ad “doesn’t fit their narrative.” CNN said it requested that the campaign remove a portion that referred to the mainstream media as fake news.
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Russia plans to investigate American media outlets to determine whether they illegally influenced the Kremlin’s 2016 parliamentary elections, according to a Wednesday Moscow Times report. Leonid Levin, head of the legislative Committee on Information and Communication, reportedly said CNN, Voice of America and Radio Free Europe were among those being investigated.
Stelter, who at 31 is in his third year of hosting a Sunday morning show on CNN after a 6½-year stint at the New York Times is capable of a great deal. But there is one thing, it seems, that he struggles to do: Turn it off. Especially now, when he has become a ubiquitous presence on the cable network, when more viewers than ever are tuning in to his show, Reliable Sources, and when 477,000 followers stand ready to receive his daily onslaught of tweets.
The voracious recruiters at CNN are at it again: This time, they’ve managed to coax veteran investigative reporter Eric Lichtblau from his perch at The New York Times. Lichtblau will serve as assistant managing editor at CNN’s Washington bureau.
Anchors and reporters at the cable news giants are directly attacking one another on the air, sniping over Twitter, blanketing the airwaves with coverage of each other’s controversies and counting the hours until their rival personalities are driven to ruin.
David Chalian oversees political coverage across all CNN platforms as well as providing on-air political analysis. He will speak to the merging of newsgathering efforts to reach audiences in today’s fragmented media environment as well as what the future holds in store for journalism.
Inside the strange symbiosis between Jeff Zucker and the president he helped create.
The lawsuit against CNN and sister companies claims that African Americans receive lower performance ratings in evaluations, that there are dramatic differences in pay between similarly situated employees of different races, and that the promotion of African-American employees is blocked by a “glass ceiling.”
NEW YORK (AP) — April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks has become one of the most visible White House correspondents since President Donald Trump took over, and she’s now […]
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.
Amid his feud with the president, CNN chief Jeff Zucker is taking his battle for TV news dominance online with a monthly audience of 100 million and a strategy to beat Vice and BuzzFeed, move stars like Anthony Bourdain and W. Kamau Bell to the web, and launch Casey Neistat, the vlog star he hired on the advice of his teen son.
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) — Jake Tapper is working on a book that you could call fake news: It’s his debut novel. The CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent has a […]
Top executives at AT&T, in the midst of acquiring Time Warner, are scratching their heads trying to figure out how to curry favor with the White House at the same time CNN’s journalists are putting the president under the Kleig lights.
President Donald Trump’s White House ended its freeze-out of CNN Wednesday. Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to the president, appeared during the 4 p.m. ET hour on The Lead With Jake Tapper.
The White House has refused to send its spokespeople or surrogates onto CNN shows, effectively freezing out the network from on-air administration voices. “We’re sending surrogates to places where we think it makes sense to promote our agenda,” said a White House official, acknowledging that CNN is not such a place, but adding that the ban is not permanent.
Mohammed Abdullah Tawfeeq a CNN editor and producer from Iraq who has a green card, says in a federal lawsuit filed Monday in Atlanta that he was improperly detained and subjected to additional screening when he arrived Sunday from Iraq.
The initiative will pull together experienced investigative reporters across the company into a single unit and add at least a dozen more hires. Veteran reporters Carl Bernstein and James Steele will serve as contributing editors and advise on the hires.
Jessica Yellin: How To Save CNN From Itself
The former CNN White House correspondent: “At its best, CNN is a journalistic enterprise with unparalleled reach and resources, connecting its viewers with people and conflicts half a mile or half a world away. That’s why I believe that as a condition of Time Warner’s bid to merge with AT&T, CNN should be sold to a new independent entity. This sale would also include CNN international, Headline News and its digital and related properties.”
As other cable and broadcast networks falter, Fox News, CNN and MSNBC had big ratings gains in 2016.
Megyn Kelly has long delivered the news. Now, as her contract talks with Fox News continue, she will be forced to make a major decision about where she ought to be doing it. The popular anchor is entertaining offers from a handful of rival outlets, according to people familiar with the matter. Could one of those places be CNN?
Donald Trump lashed out on Twitter Monday night over a CNN report by CNN senior Washington correspondent Jeff Zeleny refuting his unsubstantiated claims of mass voter fraud on Election Day.
