The coverage of the testimony of Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh reflected a nation bitterly divided, but also produced a rare collective civic moment.
The new apps will include livestream so mobile users can watch local newscasts in real time.
BuzzFeed says its sources are “standing behind” the bombshell report about the special counsel investigation. “We’re being told to stand our ground. Our reporting is going to be borne out to be accurate, and we’re 100% behind it,” investigative reporter Anthony Cormier told CNN’s Brian Stelter on Reliable Sources Sunday.
From the posting of the dossier to the publication of a story now in dispute, BuzzFeed News is learning about the perils of the chase.
After an abrupt departure, former ESPN president John Skipper is trying to beat his former employer at its own game with DAZN (pronounced “da zone”), a subscription streaming service with an odd name and big plans to disrupt sports broadcasting.
The Local Media Association and the Local Media Consortium, today announced that they have hired Julia Campbell as branded content project lead. This newly created position is possible thanks to a $1 million […]
After raising $6 million, the start-up NewsGuard, co-founded by Steve Brill, has signed Microsoft as its first major client. The main goal: to combat the spread of false stories on the internet.
Exclusives
Newspaper circulation is down sharply, and so is employment in the newspaper industry. Financial cutbacks have led to the shutdown of nearly 1,800 daily and weekly newspapers since 2004. Two developments this week brought the issue into further focus. Facebook, whose success has contributed to the news business’ decline, announced Tuesday it would invest $300 million over three years in news initiatives with an emphasis in local coverage. More ominously, the hedge fund-backed Digital First Media, known for sharp cost-cutting strategies, bid to buy Gannett Co. , the publisher of USA Today and several daily newspapers across the country.
MARKET SHARE | DMA 14: DETROIT
Detroit’s WXYZ Has It All At Auto Show
On Tuesday, Facebook is announcing a three-year commitment to invest $300 million in “news programs, partnerships and content.” Some of the funds will go directly to nonprofit organizations like the Pulitzer Center and Report for America. The cash infusion will also dramatically expand Facebook’s existing effort to help news websites convert readers into paying subscribers.
The New York Times is pushing further into voice products for smart speakers. On Friday, the company announced that it’s launching a weekday flash news briefing called The New York Times Briefing for Alexa-enabled devices (hosted by Michael Barbaro, who is a busy man). It’s also debuting a weekly interactive news quiz from The Daily’s producers.
Andrew Heyward: “As a loyal viewer (and alumnus) of WCBS-TV in New York, I admit I find the station’s promotional tagline — “Expect More” — unintentionally ambiguous, as in “Frankly, I expected more.” But all that’s changed now that CBS has rolled out the station’s 24/7 live streaming service, CBSN New York, with other CBS markets to follow. Who could possibly expect (or ask for) more than round-the-clock live breaking news, local coverage and weather, streamed on the station’s website and available on Roku, Amazon Fire, Apple TV and CBS mobile apps?”
Every corner of the media industry was touched by 2018’s frenetic pace of change. The streaming wars escalated. So did a very different kind of war: President Donald Trump’s assault on news outlets he doesn’t like. Meantime, a wave of media consolidation continued to build, and all sorts of websites explored new subscription-based business models. Lest we forget all that’s happened since January, here’s a look back.
DMA 6: WASHINGTON
Mike Wise Joins WUSA As Digital Columnist
WUSA, Tegna’s CBS affiliate in Washington, today hired Mike Wise, a sports columnist, feature writer and sports TV expert, has joined the news team as a digital journalist and on-air […]
A wave of union-organizing has swept over the digital media industry over the past three years. One by one, journalists employed by the once-scrappy start-ups and venture-capital darlings of the Internet have banded together to negotiate collectively.
This year was a tumultuous one, characterized by a relentless stream of stories that dominated newscasts across America. From national and international headlines such as the midterms elections and the […]
Former Fox News executive, Ken LaCorte, has enlisted former NPR news boss Michael Oreskes and former Fox News executive editor John Moody to join him in creating LaCorte News, which he said will be a truly “fair and balanced” alternative in these polarized times.
DMA 53: PROVIDENCE, RI
WPRI Builds Street Cred The Old-Fashioned Way
Ted Nesi and Dan McGowan pound the City Hall and police beats and more as digital-first reporters at WPRI, Nexstar’s CBS affiliate in Providence, R.I. And while the two news hounds have been watchdogs in target-rich Rhode Island way too long to be called “innovative,” they’re now part of a growing trend: local stations using digital journalists to strengthen their enterprise reporting.
DMA 35: CINCINNATI
For Difficult Stories, WCPO Turns To Cartoons
Kevin Necessary isn’t the kind of reporter you typically find in a TV newsroom, but WCPO’s resident cartoonist sure knows how to tell a story. Necessary was already freelancing for the Scripps ABC affiliate in Cincinnati when he was hired full time in 2016 as part of the station’s digital push, which then included a separate digital newsroom.
DMA 31: SAN ANTONIO, TX
KSAT’s Completely Different Weather Report
It doesn’t take an Einstein to know that in this age of streaming and on-demand viewing, linear TV notions of time and space don’t apply. But it did take a Breland — Sandy Breland, group vice president at Raycom Media — to apply that new reality to investigative reporting.
Media companies are each independently trying to solve the same technical problems, rather than focusing on competing with Facebook. Is the usual answer to “buy or build?” changing?
Great stories don’t grow on trees. But ABC O&O KFSN Fresno, Calif., found one that grows on vines.
Television networks and other news organizations recognize that many people will follow the results on TV with a pad or smartphone in hand, or eschew television altogether. They’re competing aggressively to provide immersive digital experiences, particularly for people impatient to know how the news affects them personally.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Recode, a technology website that was among the first in a wave of journalist-led media startups, is being folded into sister site Vox.com. Vox Media publisher Melissa Bell said in a memo that Recode would relaunch as a section of Vox.com starting next year. Recode will continue to exist as a brand and business, and Recode’s staff will report to Vox Editor in Chief Lauren Williams, Bell said. Journal subscribers can read the full story here.
DIGITAL DEFEATS PRINT
Gannett Drops Printed Election Results
In cities across America, you won’t be able to find even the most cursory election results in your Wednesday morning newspaper next week. Is this speeding up newspapers’ transition to digital — or just burning a bridge they still need to cross?
It will add 11 technology roles based in San Francisco, Seattle and Washington.
TV stations are arming themselves with software that allows them to slice and dice social media to gauge audience interest in stories, share viewer feedback and even predict what stories will become larger issues in the future. Other software speeds social integration into newscasts.
While Google, Facebook and Twitter face scrutiny for spreading misinformation, Apple has avoided scandal by using people to pick what news to show. Is that good for publishers?
NBC News has been producing more videos for its own platforms and social channels as it gets ready to launch a 24-hour, over-the-top streaming network. Over the past 12 months, NBC News has increased its video output for its own sites and apps by 15% to roughly 130 videos per month.
Newsy, the E.W. Scripps-owned cable and OTT news network, is the first brand to have an app in the news category on Portal and Portal+, two video communication devices for […]
Raycom Media’s InvestigateTV has released Killing Pavel, a documentary focused on the death of journalist Pavel Sheremet, killed in a car bombing two years ago. Sheremet was an investigative journalist […]
