local news

Add “access to quality local news” to the list of advantages that wealthy communities have over poor ones: A new Rutgers analysis of news sources in three New Jersey towns suggests that richer towns have more local news sources, creating more original content and posting more of it to social media, than do poorer communities.

The Media General Norfolk NBC-Fox duopoly promotes him from assistant news director. He will have oversight of all facets of the stations’ broadcast and digital news content.

CBS affiliate WDJT Milwaukee (DMA 35), has added Kathryn Chappell to its CBS 58 Morning News team. Beginning Aug. 10, Chappell will anchor weekday newscasts from 4:30 to 7 a.m. […]

Alexandria Hoff has joined CBS-owned KYW Philadelphia’s Eyewitness News team as a permanent general assignment reporter. Hoff has been a freelancer at the station since March. Hoff was most recently […]

Tegna-owned CBS affiliate KHOU Houston (DMA 10) has hired Pablo Alsina for its sports team. Alsina will be seen on air beginning in mid-August, and will anchor weekday sports and […]

Many local broadcast meteorologists say that the national reporting on severe weather is out of control, with sloppy reporting and almost incessant hyping of events. What this is doing, they add, is spreading misinformation that may be desensitizing viewers to actual weather risk.

Broadcast journalism veteran Tara Mergener will join Gray Television’s CBS affiliate KWTX Waco, Texas (DMA 87). beginning in mid-September she will join the News 10 at Ten anchor team alongside […]

The Fox O&O, which already airs more local news than any other Atlanta station by a wide margin, is expanding its 11 p.m. news to a full hour starting Sept. 14. The Fox 5 News Edge, which came to be in 2007 hosted by Tom Haynes as a 30-minute show, will become the first one-hour 11 p.m. news program in the top 50 markets.

This week’s Social Scorecard looks at New Orleans (DMA) 51, where Louisiana Media Co.-owned WVUE leads in total social actions as well as holding the top spot in Facebook actions. The Advance-owned Times-Picayune wears the crown on Twitter and Instagram actions, however, while Gannett Co.-owned WWL-TV commands the largest number of fans and followers.

The latest RTDNA/Hofstra University survey of the state of broadcast news shows stable-to-better results. You might think that is not saying much, but I do, given the enormous impact digital media have had on all the so-called legacy media over the past two decades.Just look at the train wreck that is newspaper publishing. More stations are producing news with more people earning more money.

On Aug. 3, WEVV, the CBS and Fox affiliates in Evansville, Ind., is launching a local TV news operation from scratch, going up against already established local TV newscasts from both the NBC and ABC affiliates in town.

Laura Thoren will join the ABC-owned WLS Chicago (DMA 3) as a daily reporter beginning Aug. 31. Most recently, Thoren was at Hearst-owned KOAT Albuquerque, N.M., having served as a […]

Media General’s CW affiliate WISH Indianapolis (DMA 27) is once again home to Phil Sanchez who is returning as weekend evening anchor. Sanchez rejoins the 24-Hour News 8 team after […]

The latest addition to Fox-owned WNYW New York (DMA 1) is Simone in the City, a 30-minute, weekly lifestyle and entertainment program hosted by entertainment reporter Simone Boyce. It will […]

The station group will televise the Voters First Forum featuring GOP candidates, produced and hosted by C-SPAN and the New Hampshire Union Leader.  

Telemundo’s WSCV Miami (DMA 16) has named Fausto Malavé co-anchor of its 5:30, 6 and 11 p.m. weekday newscasts effective immediately. “Fausto is a very experienced journalist who every day […]

Fox-owned KTBC Austin, Texas (DMA 39), today named reporter Ann Wyatt Little weekend anchor of Good Day Austin, effective Aug. 1. Prior to this role, she was a KTBC general assignment […]

Amber Lee has been promoted to meteorologist on weekend evening newscasts at CBS-owned KCBS and KCAL in Los Angeles (DMA 2), effective immediately. Lee, a Southern California native who has […]

Current host of The Now Tampa Bay Laura Harris, will take on additional responsibilities at Scripps-owned ABC affiliate WFTS Tampa, Fla. (DMA 13). Harris has been named co-anchor of ABC […]