Former NBC News Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd criticized his network Sunday for hiring former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor, saying on the air that many NBC journalists are uncomfortable with the decision. Todd said many NBC journalists are uncomfortable with the hiring because some of their professional dealings with the RNC during McDaniel’s tenure “have been met with gaslighting, have been met with character assassination.”
Over four decades, she rose to executive producer and helped secure interviews with presidents and other leaders in politics and the world of ideas.
ABC News’ Gio Benitez, CBS News’ Ingrid Ciprián-Matthews, CNN’s Clarrisa Ward and NBC News’ Kristen Welker were among the 13 honorees to take home RTDNA Foundation’s 2024 First Amendment awards, which honor those who practice, promote and defend journalism.
Top news and content executives from CBS News and Stations, Cox Media Group, NBCUniversal Local and CBC News share creative alternatives to the newscast for presenting topical content in a panel at TVNewsCheck’s Programming Everywhere conference at the NAB Show on April 14. Register here.
The partnerships, it says, will allow Scripps News to provide additional reporting and expertise to a wide range of topics.
Matt Glassman, WRC Washington news director, is joining NBC News as VP of regional editorial. It’s a new role and its focus is on driving reporting and expanded coverage between NBC News and NBCU Local’s NBC and Telemundo owned stations across the country.
NBC News Now — which is a free streaming service distributed across more than 20 platforms — serves as a seamless extension of NBC’s linear programming, and that linear-to-streaming symbiosis is believed to be the key to NBC News’ future. “The tradition of providing high-quality, free content is in the DNA of NBC and so it’s the future and the past, merged together,” says Janelle Rodriguez EVP of programming. “We’re using the same studios, control rooms, and are treating it like one big production.”
A federal judge held veteran investigative reporter Catherine Herridge in civil contempt on Thursday for refusing to divulge her source for a 2017 series of Fox News stories about a Chinese American scientist who was investigated by the FBI but never charged. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington imposed a fine of $800 per day until Herridge complies, but the fine will not go into effect immediately to give her time to appeal.
An aging A-list, AI anchors and agents struggling to justify superstar paydays: “The trend is to replace them with people they can pay considerably less.”
CBS News has chosen Alturo Rhymes for the newly created position of executive producer of daily news, while correspondent Jim Axelrod will be leading a new Eye on America unit. Rhymes will be responsible for “centralizing our daily Newsgathering offerings to the broadcasts, stream and digital so that we are positioned to aggressively advance stories in the news each day and ensure our best reporting flows seamlessly to all shows and platforms,” according to a note to staffers sent by CBS News President Ingrid Ciprián-Matthews.
CBS Evening News is expanding its “Eye on America” weekly franchise with it moving to a separate unit with Jim Axelrod as executive editor. The goal is for “Eye on America” stories to air four nights a week. The new “Eye on America” segments will premiere in the spring. They will run first on CBS Evening News and then be featured across all CBS News and Stations programs and platforms.
Across the industry, contraction, layoffs, sales and labor unrest remind of 2008 — but insiders are less optimistic this time.
Mass layoffs, closures and reader fatigue are afflicting news organizations as Americans prepare for a consequential election year.
Mike Calia has been named managing editor of NBC News’s Business & Economy unit. He comes from CNBC, where he was a senior editor at CNBC Digital. He will oversee editorial direction for the Business & Economy unit, with an emphasis on the state of the economy, the American consumer, the jobs market and what NBC News calls “pocketbook issues.” Calia spent close to seven years at CNBC.
A familiar face on television as the host of CBS Sunday Morning from 1994 to 2016, he was also known for his Osgood File segments on CBS Radio, often delivered with humor and a rhyme.
NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard, who was representing a pool of five major TV networks, said the Trump campaign objected to his presence.
The 2024 Iowa caucuses will convene statewide on Monday, Jan. 15, at 7 p.m. local time (8 p.m. ET). As one might expect, the television news outlets are going all in on coverage of an event which marks the formal start of the 2024 presidential primary election cycle.
The new president of CBS News has been accused of using her clout to promote minorities while unfairly sidelining white journalists — a “woke” and “divisive” practice that sparked multiple employee complaints and a major internal probe in 2021. Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews — a 30-year veteran of the third-place network who took the helm last August after her boss Neeraj Khemlani left in a storm of controversy — also had been top deputy to ex-president David Rhodes, who exited CBS News in January 2019 following a slew of high-profile scandals. Current and former employees say they are chafing over the promotion of Ciprian-Matthews, who is now the top-ranked woman of color at CBS News.
Three new shows will debut on Scripps News this month, focusing on politics and the economy. Local reporters in key battleground states will contribute on-the-ground coverage.
NBC News announced Thursday that Dateline senior producer Paul Ryan will be the show’s new executive producer. He will oversee the brand’s broadcast, streaming and podcast entities.
The Iowa Caucus set to take place on Monday, Jan. 15, represents the first major presidential contest of the long election season, and NBC News is preparing for it with Closing Arguments: Iowa, a series of in-depth interviews with a trio of Republican presidential candidates.
After almost 45 years in the media business including 35 years at CBC, Susan Marjetti has announced that she is retiring from her role as general manager of CBC News. As of […]
This season to date, the broadcast news program has narrowed its viewership gap with ABC by 18%.
The cable network and broadcaster held merger talks 20 years ago. A possible mega-deal between Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount could bring those ideas to the forefront again.
Collaborations Now Essential For Survival, News Leaders Say
Executives from Scripps News, Gray Television, NBCUniversal Local and ProPublica told a NewsTECHForum panel last week that their cross-group collaborations, as well as with organizations outside their own, have become critical to delivering on their news mission and their viability.
When the U.S.’s largest Spanish-language network ran a friendly interview with the former president, Democrats cried foul. Executives say they’re seeking more balance.
First Amendment advocates are alarmed by the case of Catherine Herridge, who is facing an imminent court deadline and steep fines.
ABC News announced Thursday that it will host the sixth GOP debate on Jan. 18 in Manchester, N.H, set to take place just days before a CNN event at the same location. The ABC debate will take place at St. Anselm College and will occur just after the Iowa caucuses, the first vote of the primary season, concludes on Jan. 15. The day before, CNN announced its New Hampshire debate at St. Anselm College on Jan. 21.
CBC/Radio-Canada said on Monday that it plans to cut about 600 union and non-union positions over the next year, as the national broadcaster implements cost-saving initiatives. The proposed job cuts will help manage about C$125 million (US$92.32 million) in budget pressures forecast for the 2024–25 fiscal year, the broadcaster said. CBC and Radio-Canada will each reduce about 250 jobs, while the remaining roles will be trimmed from the technology and infrastructure divisions. Additionally, about 200 current vacant positions will be eliminated.