WDRB Louisville, Ky., launched its new live-streaming local news show, WDRB+ LIVE at 10 a.m. this week, and tackles the top five morning stories with a more in-depth and relaxed discussion-style presentation.
Across the industry, contraction, layoffs, sales and labor unrest remind of 2008 — but insiders are less optimistic this time.
Angela Grande, director of streaming news channels at NBCUniversal Local, says FAST channels represent a unique and powerful opportunity for local news, but choreographing the relationships between stations, platforms and tech partners is a fast-evolving dance. A full transcript of the conversation is included.
Sharing data, regular cross-company communication and working outside of TV are three key trends.
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Mass layoffs, closures and reader fatigue are afflicting news organizations as Americans prepare for a consequential election year.
Why Your Best Young TV Journalist Just Left
Some of local TV’s brightest and most ambitious talents are leaving beloved jobs — and the industry — behind facing salary prospects that fall far too much below an acceptable mark.
Capitol Broadcasting hires him from KUTV Salt Lake City to succeed the retiring Rick Gall.
As anticipation builds for the upcoming special election on Feb. 13 in New York’s 3rd Congressional District, WPIX New York has scheduled an exclusive televised political forum, PIX On Politics: […]
Sinclair ABC affiliate WJLA Washington is introducing a new 4 p.m. anchor team consisting of Victoria Sanchez and Megan Clarke with Live Desk anchor John Rogers and meteorologist Steve Rudin. […]
Forward-looking station groups including Gray Television, E.W. Scripps and Graham Media are forming internal policy groups to tackle the challenges that will come with adopting generative AI in their newsrooms.
WKMG Focuses On Results And Solutions To Build Trust
WKMG Orlando, Fla., and other Graham Media stations believe news coverage that provides evidence-based solutions to community problems is a way to keep themselves relevant to viewers.
Margaret Sullivan: “Huge swaths of the country have turned into ‘news deserts’, lacking credible journalism. I fear for the Baltimore Sun.”
With Election Coverage, Local TV News Gets A Last Run At Trust
This year’s election offers television stations an opportunity to rebuild trust with viewers by super-serving them with substantive coverage of the candidates and a forum for debates.
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — Ruth Ashton Taylor, a trailblazing journalist who was the first female newscaster to work in television on the West Coast, has died. She was 101. […]
Sandra Bookman, who has been a weekend anchor at ABC’s WABC New York for more than two decades, moves to Eyewitness News At Noon where she’ll anchor weekdays with David Novarro. […]
The dismissal of a beloved editor and Pulitzer-winning journalist raises questions about the future of the well-funded Houston Landing, and nonprofit news in general.
RTDNA President-CEO Dan Shelley says TV news’ credibility is on the line in this election year as never before, and he has some advice on how stations can recapture viewers’ trust. A full transcript of the conversation is included.
Fox O&O WFLD Chicago will debut a new anchor lineup for its Good Day Chicago” morning show on Jan. 22. Anthony Ponce and Anita Blanton will anchor 4:30-7 a.m., followed […]
Hearst Television CBS affiliate KCCI Des Moines, Iowa has added Jon Rivas as the new meteorologist on KCCI 8 News This Morning. He joins anchors Alyx Sacks, Eric Hanson and Scott […]
WTVF Nashville News Photogs Star In 30-Minute Special
WTVF Nashville put its news photogs in front of the camera to talk about their jobs and how they covered the biggest moments in 2023.
He joins Rosanna Scotto on the Jan. 16. Menefee will continue co-hosting the award-winning Fox NFL pregame show Fox NFL Sunday.
