NEW YORK (AP) — Al-Jazeera America’s incoming president said Tuesday that people interested in news will get live programming whenever they tune in, even in the middle of the night […]
The birth of the child, whenever it happens — any day now, if the tabloids are to be believed — will be a spectacle unlike any other in the modern media age. “This is probably the most anticipated birth since the dawn of Twitter,” said Jon Williams, the foreign editor for ABC News.
Fusion, ABC and Univision’s new network aimed at young English-speaking Hispanics in the U.S., is continuing to bolster its staff with the appointment of Mark Lima as its vice president of news.
KYW Reporter Jericka Duncan Leaves For CBS
Exclusives
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News “Nightline” anchor Terry Moran is getting a new posting as the network’s London-based chief foreign correspondent. Moran will head overseas late this summer, ABC […]
As the network’s chief legal affairs anchor, “Dan will continue his regular legal segments on Good Morning America, show us a whole new side of his talents with a new branded GMA segment on a wide range of topics, and join the other Nightline anchors on ABC’s The Lookout,” ABC News President Ben Sherwood said today.
For many of its 38 years, the sober studio-interview format of the PBS NewsHour has served the program well, drawing viewers and corporate underwriters alike. But with a deep financing crisis forcing layoffs and other cutbacks this week, some public television employees believe that format — and a general unwillingness to embrace the digital realities facing journalism — may be jeopardizing the program’s future.
Family ties create conflict of interest issues: When reporters are related to newsmakers, things can get tricky for media organizations.
Stations, Networks Break News Together
More and more, when big news breaks, networks turn to affiliates for local expertise. And the stations benefit from network tech resources as well as reporting that includes national and federal news sources.
NEW YORK (AP) — A family member says Ed Hotaling, a network news journalist and author of several books including “They’re Off! Horse Racing at Saratoga,” has died. Greg Hotaling […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A 76-year-old man yelling that the government was going to take his house slit his wrists outside NBC’s “Today” show Thursday morning before he was taken […]
NBC News and MSNBC have announced that they will partner with the publisher of SCOTUSblog, the all-things-Supreme-Court website, for coverage of upcoming rulings. SCOTUSblog Publisher Tom Goldstein and NBC News Justice correspondent Pete Williams will offer reporting and analysis for this month’s rulings on same-sex marriage, affirmative action, voting rights and genetic patenting, among others.
The trend lines continue to head in the right direction for the CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley, which remains in third place but has wrapped a second straight season of ratings growth.
Jeff Pegues today was named a CBS News correspondent. Pegues will report for all CBS News broadcasts and platforms, and he will be based in Washington. His appointment is effective […]
The Univision veteran is promoted from senior news director
as the Hispanic network prepares to launch its Fusion joint venture with ABC.
WABC Reporter Jeff Pegues Moving To CBS News
For years, CBS’s Sharyl Attkissonhas been one of the few mainstream reporters pursuing critical stories about the Obama administration. Today, as “scandal season” takes hold in Washington, she has seen her longstanding skepticism of the White House and the Justice Department become the conventional attitude among a formerly deferential Beltway press corps.
NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN rushed top names to the scene of the devastation in the Midwest, where 24 are dead and scores are injured.
The network said today that Deborah Turness, former editor of ITV News in Britain, will run the network’s news division. Turness replaces Steve Capus, who resigned earlier this year, and will begin her new job in August.
The half-hour Charlie Rose Weekend will replace Need to Know on Friday evenings. It will cull the best of his latenight program and is scheduled to begin in July.
Kurt Davis Leaves KENS For CBS News
CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley gave his fellow journalists a scolding this weekend while accepting an award from Quinnipiac University, urging his colleagues to quit worrying about being “first” to publish a story and to avoid using social networking sites for information, as they are solely “gossip.” “This has been a bad few months for journalism,” he lamented. “We’re getting the big stories wrong over and over again.”
NBC News is on the verge of naming Deborah Turness, the head of Britain’s ITV News, as its next president, according to several people with knowledge of the appointment. Turness, if appointed, would be the first woman president of a network television news division in the United States, succeeding Steve Capus, who stepped down from the position in February after a tenure of nearly eight years.
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel is back quickly and safely from his first trip to Syria since he and his team were kidnapped and […]
Veteran reporter Sharyl Attkisson and her network, CBS, are flipping the usual script on the highly politicized Benghazi story. The result: Attkisson has been a persistent voice of news-media skepticism about the government’s story. On the air and online, Attkisson has questioned the administration’s timeline and its response. She has hunted down important eyewitnesses and pressed for release of documents that might shed more light on the attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
Shriver today was named a “special anchor” who will appear on various NBC programming, including CNBC, MSNBC and NBC Sports, and be an editor at large on women’s issues for the network’s digital properties. She had worked at NBC from 1986 to 2004, much of it on Dateline NBC.
John Miller, who appears primarily on CBS This Morning, had a dual role during the network’s Boston Marathon bombing coverage. As a low-key explainer and reporter, he helped keep CBS ahead on key details of the investigation as the suspects’ identities began to emerge, and away from missteps made by other news organizations.
