The CNN anchor and chief national affairs analyst recently underwent a four-hour operation to remove what turned out to be a benign brain tumor. But getting to that diagnosis has been a long journey.
NBCLX, NBCUniversal Local’s TV and streaming network, today released a four-part docuseries, Dying to be Wrong, detailing the story of a Texas community and its people tragically affected and deeply divided […]
Beginning on Monday, Oct. 18, legal and true crime network Law&Crime will provide gavel-to-gavel coverage of the trial of three men accused of murdering jogger Ahmaud Arbery. Live coverage will […]
The WarnerMedia cable-news outlet typically runs a significant chunk of promotions for its programming on its own air and in other venues owned by its parent company. Today, it’s airing an initial ad to entice loyal viewers to consider CNN+, its new video-streaming service slated to launch in 2022.
If WOIO has its way, Northeast Ohio Hispanic residents will wake up and go to bed watching the region’s first Telemundo station. Starting in January, owner Gray is launching a sister station, WTCL, and offering local news in Spanish, starting with newscasts at 6 and 11 p.m. Univision has owned a station in the market for 20 years, but it doesn’t produce any local newscasts.
Exclusives
TVNewsCheck‘s Michael Depp talks with NBC LX’s Fernando Hurtado about Connect the Dots, a new series that pulls back the curtain on the reporting process and seeks to court younger audiences by veering away from news conventions. Watch the Connect the Dots series here.
Stephanopoulos will debut two long-form programs on Hulu, all part of a new production company ABC News is launching with him. George Stephanopoulos Productions is expected to specialize in nonfiction projects that include news-making interviews as well as investigative journalism.
Pittsburgh is known as one of the truly competitive TV markets in the nation, and a new battleground has emerged in the 4 p.m. hour. KDKA (above) has run 4 p.m. news since 2002, while WTAE debuted an hour-long program in July and WPXI did so in mid-September.
More than a year after George Floyd’s killing focused attention on efforts to diversify newsrooms, the ability to measure real progress is proving elusive.
Facebook will now count activists and journalists as “involuntary” public figures and so increase protections against harassment and bullying targeted at these groups, its global safety chief said in an interview.
Andy Parker, the father of WDBJ Roanoke, Va., reporter Alison Parker who was murdered during a morning live shot in 2015, wants the Federal Trade Commission to take action against Facebook for failing to remove online footage of the shooting.
TVNewsCheck’s annual conference exploring the intersections of news and technology will return to the New York Hilton on Dec. 14 in a hybrid event that allows audiences to attend in person or virtually. Register here.
Award-winning journalist Kristine Strain has been named news director of CBS News and Television Stations’ local businesses in Denver, including KCNC (CBS), CBSN Denver and CBSDenver.com. Strain is assuming her new […]
Fox moves him up from assistant news director to oversee journalism operations at the Seattle duopoly.
Losing Local News Impacts Democracy
As local newspapers shutter, it has a chilling effect on citizens’ likelihood to vote and remain politically informed, along with fostering conditions for government inefficiency and corruption. Broadcasters can play a proactive role in stemming the problem.
