Supreme Court Leaves Right To Record Police In Jeopardy

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New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck

New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for an assistant chief engineer, an MMJ/reporter, a broadcast/IT engineer, a creative services producer, a director of technology, a sales support coordinator, a news director, an executive producer and a weekend anchor/reporter.

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How Fox’s Weather App Hit A Million Downloads On Launch

The Fox Weather app was the top free app downloaded in the week it launched, ahead of brand giants like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook. How’d they do it? A combination of old-school advertising and brand loyalty.

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Why The Media Loves Labor Now

At a moment of political turmoil, economic change and a pandemic-driven focus on how we work, labor has become a hot news beat. Above,

Newsmax Is Requiring Staffers To Be Vaccinated By Jan. 4, Or Undergo Weekly Testing

ABC’s ‘This Week’ Gets Washington Refresh Amid Ratings Surge

The public affairs show is getting a new set as it looks ahead to the 2022 midterm elections, with co-anchor Martha Raddatz hitting the road.

WAPT Jackson’s Cecil Hannibal Joins Morning Team

Hearst-owned ABC affiliate WAPT Jackson, Miss., reporter Cecil Hannibal has been promoted to the Morning News team as a news anchor. He joins anchor Erin Pickens and meteorologist Adam McWilliams on the […]

How’s Your Story Strength Today?

Is this article weak, fair, good, or excellent? How are you supposed to know? You haven’t even read it yet. But if I worked for Tegna, I’d be getting that kind of feedback already, while I’m still typing away. It’s a built-in feature called the “story strength meter” that was recently integrated into the company’s proprietary content management system (CMS) called Tegna One.

Broadcast Nets To Cover Colin Powell Funeral Live On Friday

The memorial service for retired Army general, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is set for today in Washington with the broadcast news networks and their digital and affiliate outlets planning live coverage that will impact regular daytime programming. Coverage at the National Cathedral will begin just before noon ET.

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WROC Rochester Earns Two New York Emmy Awards

U.S. To Cover Costs For Journalists Under Legal Pressure Overseas

Fox News Names State Department, Senior National Correspondents

Newsmax Takes White House Reporter Emerald Robinson Off Air After Vaccine Conspiracy Tweet

Anchor Kelly Frey Exits WTAE Pittsburgh After 21 Years

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WBFF’s Marketing Director Produces Documentary About Dad’s Italian Immigrant Mission

Fox Weather Generates More Than 1 Million Downloads

Fox News Leads Off-Year Election Night Viewership

Fox News lead cable network coverage of Tuesday’s off-year election results from Virginia and New Jersey, drawing an average of 4.65 million viewers during primetime. MSNBC drew 1.49 million viewers during the 8-11 p.m. ET time frame, while CNN averaged 1.04 million. In the 25-54 demo, Fox News averaged 936,000, followed by CNN with 335,000 and MSNBC at 262,000. Above, Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin greets supporters at an election night party early Wednesday.

NEWSTECHFORUM 2021

News Technology And Combating Disinformation At NewsTECHForum

Executives from Tegna, Fox Owned Stations and Graham Media Group share best practices from the front lines for coping with the daily flood of disinformation and misinformation that besieges newsrooms and their social channels at TVNewsCheck’s NewsTECHForum, held in-person and virtually on Dec. 14. Register here.

Smartmatic Sues Newsmax And One America News Network, Claiming Defamation

Smartmatic, an election technology company that faced baseless accusations of rigging the 2020 election, earlier filed a similar lawsuit against Fox News.

U.S. Journalist Denied Bail In Myanmar

Jonathan Inoa To Anchor WXTV New York’s 11 P.M. News

Univision’s WXTV New York has named Jonathan Inoa co-anchor of its Solo a Las Once (Only at Eleven) latenight newscast. A veteran journalist with nearly three decades of experience, Inoa […]

KUVN Dallas Names Calixto Gonzalez VP Of News

Univision moves the news exec from KWEX San Antonio, Texas, to oversee journalism at its Dallas outlet.

Audrey Asistio Joins KNTV As Anchor And Reporter

NBC-owned KNTV San Francisco has hired Bay Area native Audrey Asistio as weekend anchor and reporter. She will co-anchor the evening newscasts including the 11 p.m. on weekends alongside co-anchor […]

NBC & Telemundo Station Apps Now Available On Amazon Fire TV

NBCUniversal Local, the home of NBC and Telemundo owned stations and bilingual TV newsrooms in the country’s top TV markets, today announced that its stations’ apps are now available on […]

WSB Atlanta Anchor Carol Sbarge Retiring After 29 Years

‘The Five’ Usurps Tucker Carlson As FNC’s Most-Watched Show

The round-table show The Five has proven to be one of Fox News Channel’s most durable properties. The Five, which these days relies largely on a trio of regulars and two rotating guests, outmaneuvered primetime colleagues like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity to become the most-watched show on the network  — and cable news — in October, according to Nielsen data.

WAPT Anchor And Family Held At Gunpoint During Carjacking

ABC News Hires Em Nguyen As Multi-Platform Reporter

Rick Santorum Joins Newsmax

CBC Is Keeping Facebook Comments Closed On News Posts