Cable Should Let The GOP Candidates Debate
It will be easy this year to identify the biggest losers in the GOP debates. They will be the candidates who aren’t on the stage. With a record 17 prominent candidates vying for the Republican nomination (so far), no system for determining admission to the debate stage will please everyone. But the GOP can certainly do better than the statistically unsound procedures announced by Fox News and CNN.
Exclusives
Jake Tapper starts hosting CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. It airs at 9 a.m. ET and is repeated three hours later. He replaces Candy Crowley. He says he hopes to attract viewers who want a little more depth to their political interviews.
CNN is creating an in-house studio that will produce news-like content on behalf of advertisers, a move that reflects marketers’ growing desire for articles and videos that feel like editorial work. The new unit, called Courageous, will fashion and distribute branded content across CNN’s fleet of properties, from TV to the Web and newer platforms like Snapchat.
Fox News Channel will limit the first 2016 Republican presidential debate to candidates who place in the top 10 of an average of the five most recent national polls, the cable network said on Wednesday.
CNN To Push ‘The Point’ At Upfront Presentation
The former ABC newsman, who hosts a weekday afternoon program on CNN, replaces Candy Crowley on the cable network’s State of the Union. She left CNN in December and a rotating series of substitutes has been filling in ever since.
NEW YORK (AP) — “House of Cards” president Kevin Spacey is bringing a documentary series about the presidency to CNN. CNN said Monday that Spacey will co-produce and narrate “Race […]
To reach younger audiences, established media brands are experimenting with the popular app. It may seem like an odd strategy. The stories put out through the app by partners such as CNN, ESPN and National Geographic vanish quickly. But the hope is that the estimated tens of millions of Snapchat users — mostly between 13 and 25 — will also swipe to view a video on the crisis in Ukraine, take a cute pet quiz or try out a cronut recipe found on the app.
News technology guru Michael Koetter is leading a CNN effort to tear down the data silos to give its journalists easy access to all the tools they need to build a story for distribution on one or any combination of platforms. He says it’s a philosophy of making the story, rather than the process, as the driving force.
