digital news

The announcements precede this fall’s launch of the hyper-local streaming and broadcast news service. 

The internet has pretty much killed local news wars. The Baltimore Banner, a nonprofit start-up, is trying to change that by taking on The Baltimore Sun.

CBC News is launching a free, ad-supported streaming channel in the fall, with a daily news show led by The National‘s Andrew Chang as its flagship program, the public broadcaster announced Thursday. The channel will be available to stream 24/7. Chang will step back from The National in August, with co-anchor Adrienne Arsenault taking over hosting duties from Monday to Thursday under a new title, chief correspondent for CBC News.

Fox Television Stations is reporting that its digital properties finished May 2022 as the top-performing O&O station group in total minutes, unique visitors and total views, according to Comscore Media-Metrix data cited by the station group. FTS closed out the month reaching 1.67 billion total minutes, 403 million total views and 54 million unique visitors.

News coverage from eight NBC stations in major U.S. markets, are now accessible through The Roku Channel with more local news channels to be added in the coming months.

WAFF, Gray’s NBC affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama, was the OTT MVP Award winner (OTTy Award for short) in May. The OTTy Award is given each month to the Gray Television team using their OTT desk in innovative ways.

Social media experts say LinkedIn offers numerous advantages for TV newsrooms to seed their content including strong reach and relevancy for a desired audience of adult professionals and an early mover advantage.

Karolina Waclawiak, its executive editor of culture, takes over the newsroom at a difficult moment for the digital media company.

A center-lane news startup finds fertile ground among Gen Zers and millennials on Instagram and TikTok, tapping into exhaustion over cable news polarization and picking up more than 1.1 million followers in the process.

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook is re-examining its commitment to paying for news, people familiar with the matter said, prompting some news organizations to prepare for a potential revenue shortfall of tens of millions of dollars. The company has paid average annual fees of more than $15 million to the Washington Post, just over $20 million to the New York Times and more than $10 million to The Wall Street Journal, according to people familiar with the matter.

CNN Digital interim chief Alex MacCallum and CNN Digital chief technology officer Robyn Peterson are both leaving the company, CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht announced Wednesday via internal memo. Peterson’s last day will be June 15 and MacCallum’s last day will be June 30.

TVNewsCheck’s Michael Depp talks with Sussy Ruiz, editor in chief of the newly-launched The Weather Channel en Español, about the streaming- and digital-only channel’s value proposition to Spanish-speaking viewers, its ambitions to widen its coverage radar further south of the border and how understanding the cultures of its target audience will be crucial to its success. A full transcript of the conversation is included.

Over the past several years we have witnessed how the information ecosystem has migrated almost entirely online. While the resilience of traditional media like print, radio, and television has kept them alive, the largest chunk of the audience today is most definitely online, consuming information via smartphones, and probably engaging on social media. All this has created huge challenges for the information ecosystem across the globe.

The Vox Media Union’s contract expires at midnight on June 13. The union is seeking cost-of-living raises and affordable benefits.

A new survey of Canadian media workers finds a troubling amount of stress, anxiety and depression.

The Weather Channel Television’s upgraded connected TV app now offers a subscription-based live stream of The Weather Channel Television Network, customizable local weather information, on-demand original programming and more.

Hundreds of staffers were drawn to the streaming venture, positioned as network’s future; the $5.99-a-month service lasted one month.

Meta Platforms is considering reducing the money it gives news organizations as it reevaluates the partnerships it struck over the past few years, according to people familiar with the matter. The reassessment comes as Meta looks to cut costs broadly and rethinks the value of including news in its flagship Facebook app.

Chuck Todd‘s Meet the Press Daily — an extension of NBC’s venerable news program Meet the Press — is relocating from MSNBC to streaming outlet NBC News NOW, where it will now be known as Meet the Press NOW. The newly branded hour will stream weekdays at 4 p.m. ET beginning Monday, June 6.