He’s stepping down after 22 years on the CBS newsmagazine. The network will celebrate Charles Osgood’s accomplishments on a special edition on Sept. 25. His daily commentaries on the CBS Radio Network will continue.
Univision News today announced that Patsy Loris has been promoted to executive vice president of news and executive news director. In her new role, Loris will now lead the programming […]
At issue is the departure, after the 2016 election, of the New York Times‘ remaining veteran pollsters who worked with CBS. Sources say CBS and the Times have not had any formal conversations about dissolving the 41-year-old partnership, which was the first such collaboration between two major U.S. news organizations. But there is growing speculation that they will go their separate ways after the election,
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National Media Fiddle As Louisiana Drowns
In this age of social media, the harsh reality of the Louisiana Flood of 2016 has been all but inescapable online. But it’s not just water that’s rising. So is the frustration level of many observers who can’t help but notice a key absence amid the tragedy: the national media, which by and large has rendered the flood a secondary story at best.
With only three presidential debates and one vice presidential contest, some network stars are sure to be left out in the cold in what will be must-watch moments of the campaign season. Picking debate moderators is always a tough business, and today’s polarized, increasingly opinion-based media raises serious questions about whether objective, trusted and credible moderators can be found.
NBC Nightly News led the month with an average of 7.64 million total viewers, according to Nielsen. That just edged out Word News Tonight’s 7.54 million for the month.
ABC News is in the midst of delivering 24-hour Facebook Live coverage of the political conventions, as part of a partnership with Facebook. Mădălina Ciobanu spoke with Dan Linden, global head of social media for ABC News, about the key takeaways from the past week and a half. Among them: break up coverage into shorter blocks and show people what they won’t find on traditional TV news.
The Big 3’s 10 o’clock coverage of the Democratic National Convention on Monday totaled 10.5 million total viewers and a cumulative 2.5 demo rating, up a tick from Night 1 of the RNC.
Crooked Cop Frames Innocent Man, Become Best Friends
Political conventions have long been carefully stage-managed coronations — choreographed infomercials at which crowd reaction is about as spontaneous as a sitcom’s in-studio audience. But this year’s gatherings promise a twist: There’s sure to be news, particularly at the Republican National Convention, July 18-21 in Cleveland, and likely at the Democratic gathering the following week, July 25-28 in Philadelphia.
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News congressional reporter Luke Russert joined the network out of college following the death of his father, “Meet the Press” moderator Tim Russert. On Wednesday, […]
The President and The People: A National Conversation airs Thursday, July 14 and will be simulcast uninterrupted and commercial-free on Disney Media Networks ABC, ESPN and Freeform and stream across ABC News Digital, Freeform Digital, Watch ABC, WatchESPN, Yahoo and ABC Radio
Five major networks — ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox — have sharply increased the prices they charge for live “pool” footage of important government and political events, raising concerns among some media organizations that they will be unable to afford to carry video of breaking news at the presidential debates and conventions.
People will be able to watch video of the political conventions on mobile devices and desktops alongside a feed of political tweets, Twitter said today. The GOP convention begins in Cleveland on July 18, with the Democrats in Philadelphia the following week. Besides being the latest example of Twitter’s foray into video, the announcement is a major shot of exposure for CBSN, CBS News’ two-year-old live online stream.
TV news organizations were mobilized to cover a horrifying series of shootings Thursday night in Dallas in which five police officers were killed and others wounded, setting a nation witnessing a series of escalating incidents of gun violence further on edge.
For years, it was enough for the Sunday political talk shows to own the conversation for a single day on television. But if they want to reach young people who are getting their news on Facebook, they have to own social media around the clock, too. NBC’s Meet the Press realized this two years ago when it brought on senior producer Shawna Thomas to overhaul the show’s approach to digital media. The results have been dramatic.
The gradual decline in local television viewership resumed in 2015, after a brief break the previous two years. Local TV newscasts saw their viewership drop not only in all three key timeslots, but also during some nontraditional timeslots, an area of growth in past years. Stations generated less revenue in 2015 than the year before, but the decline was around what might be expected in a non-election year. The question of local TV’s future in a digital era has not gone away, as the industry remains strategically focused on its traditional viewing platform, where its core audience is largely still found.
The withholding of such information is an unusual but not unprecedented move by a reporter or news organization, one that some media experts say can be justified.
The nation’s TV-news outlets mobilized to cover a tragedy in Orlando in which a shooter opened fire in a nightclub catering to LGBT customers, killing what is estimated to be about 50 people.
Don’t look now, but just about all of the network news shows are in the midst of the closest ratings races in, well, possibly ever. Ratings in the morning, evening and on Sunday have never been closer.
The “phoner” is back, and no one in network TV news is too happy about it. Donald Trump pioneered the lightning round of TV interviews via phone — aka phoners — during his remarkable run for the Republican presidential nomination during the past 11 months. But just as the networks seemed to stiffen their backs against Trump, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has started playing the phone game in earnest, too.
Pelley: Web Users Turn To Evening Newscasts
Scott Pelley says he’s been hearing predictions that the network evening newscast is doomed ever since he arrived at CBS 27 years ago. So he’s feeling pretty good about the fact that the CBS Evening News has actually gained viewers since he became anchor on June 6, 2011, taking over for Katie Couric, who left the network. He shares a few thoughts on why the format made famous by Walter Cronkite and the Huntley-Brinkley Report is holding its own at a time when viewers have plenty of other choices for video news.
Sunday Morning Anchors Talk Presidential Race
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News’ production company says it has signed Denise Brown, whose sister Nicole Brown Simpson was the victim of one of her generation’s most sensational crime […]
