Washington Post columnist George Will has joined MSNBC as a contributor. Will, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, was most recently a contributor at Fox News, though he became a free agent in January when Fox declined to renew his contract. Before joining Fox in 2013, he spent three decades as a contributor with ABC.
The first couple of cable news Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are engaged to be married, sources confirm. The MSNBC Morning Joe co-hosts got engaged this past weekend during a romantic trip to the south of France and Monaco to celebrate Brzezinski’s 50th birthday.
Brian Williams is facing online criticism for waxing poetic about what he called “beautiful pictures” of U.S. missiles launching during an attack on a Syrian air base.
Commentary: NBC’s Maddow/Fallon Problem
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Apparently reporters aren’t the only ones interested in Donald Trump’s tax returns. As MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow announced she had posted Trump’s 2005 federal income tax return on her site, Maddowblog.com, and on DCReport.org, the site run by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston, both crashed, presumabily under the influx of web traffic.
In TV news circles, producer Jonathan Wald has seen pretty much everything, serving as a senior hand at programs ranging from NBC’s Today to CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight. Now he will step up to a broader role at MSNBC as SVP of programming and development.
As other cable and broadcast networks falter, Fox News, CNN and MSNBC had big ratings gains in 2016.
Joe Scarborough’s Morning Joe on MSNBC with co-host Mika Brzezinski is a longtime obsession of cable-news fan Donald Trump, who has said that he derives much of his policy wisdom “from the shows.” It’s an odd position for Scarborough. The president-elect not only watches him — he calls him later.
FNC Tops In Total Viewers, CNN Wins Demo
NEW YORK (AP) — Long-time business correspondent Ali Velshi is joining MSNBC. The news network announced Tuesday the immediate appointment of Velshi, best known from his more than a decade […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The three biggest cable news networks spent more time covering live Donald Trump rallies than they did for Hillary Clinton in September, with the widest disparity […]
Sherman, New York magazine’s national affairs editor, has been on the forefront of reporting on Fox News and Roger Ailes. Sherman published an unauthorized biography of Ailes in 2014, called The Loudest Voice in the Room. According to CNN, he was the subject of a 400 page opposition research report commissioned by Ailes.
Although cable TV networks continue to reap overall benefits from this political election season, the big cable news leader got a bit of mixed news for the month of August.
CNN, MSNBC Battle For 2nd Behind FNC
That’s according to Bernstein Research. Cable shortfall would have been worse but for spike in viewership at the cable news networks — CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. Bernstein’s Todd Juenger adds that the incremental audience for cable news came from viewers who would not be watching TV at all, as well as taking share from other TV networks.
In a world of infinite headlines, channels narrow their focus. It was the internet that finally killed the news wheel. All of a sudden, the fastest way to get the news wasn’t by switching on a cable news channel, it was by hopping online. Cable news has been trying to adapt ever since. Now, both CNN and MSNBC are trying a new angle that takes them back to their roots, but with a twist. The focus is back on news, just with fewer stories.
