Journalism

In recent months, local TV news crews have faced verbal and physical abuse while on the job. A few reporters have been injured. Some have been robbed or had their equipment damaged.

KTNV in Las Vegas collaborated with Stephen Arnold Music to create a custom music image campaign with a message of hope and inclusiveness for post-pandemic audiences.

Months after Rupert Murdoch got a Covid-19 dose, one of his network’s stars, Tucker Carlson, called a Biden vaccination proposal “the greatest scandal in my lifetime.”

A look at some of the ventures that have sprung up, fueled by a new sense of mission in American journalism and by the sheer quantities of money available.

Nexstar is being sued by a South Carolina man who says one of its stations falsely represented him as “an accused child predator.” Douglas Turner claims Nexstar-owned WSPA Greenville, S.C., used his photo instead of the suspect’s on air and in a story shared on the station’s website and Facebook page. Turner alleges the article and TV story were published “with malice or with reckless disregard for the truth.”

Both Kushner and Trump are said to have personally pleaded with the Fox News owner to retract the call.

How TV and radio journalists handle it when history is suddenly thrust upon them is the subject of a new podcast based on Joe Garner’s 1998 book, We Interrupt This Broadcast. The 12-episode series, which MSNBC’s Brian Williams narrates, becomes available on July 20, and new seasons are already in the works.

RTDNA21 is described as “a brand-new news leadership retreat unlike any conference you’ve been to before. It’s all about community, connection, service and leadership.” In 2021, the organization is celebrating The Year of the Team with two major pillars: Representation and Resilience at the annual conference set for Sept. 23-24 in Denver.

News Corp. shuttered its the aggregation site Knewz today, just 18 months after its launch. Users who navigated to the site found an announcement declaring, “Knewz is no more.”

“In a world of climate change, the impacts are in our face right now. You’ve got a global issue, but how you feel it is local, and it’s personal,“ said Bernadette Woods Placky, the chief meteorologist at Climate Central, a nonprofit, non-advocacy organization analyzing climate science. “And what you do about it is local and personal.” That’s the idea behind Climate Central’s newest venture: Realtime Climate, a free tool that meteorologists and other journalists can subscribe to, connecting local weather events to climate change, all in real time.

The Sinclair-owned streamer features local news from more than 275 TV stations, giving consumers access to live and on-demand local newscasts and local news clips from 165-plus markets covering more than 75% of the U.S.

Nichols returned to the air three days after audio emerged of her talking about a Black colleague, Maria Taylor. The saga is sparking new questions about ESPN’s record on race and diversity.

Joanne LaMarca Mathisen, the spirited executive producer behind the fourth hour of NBC’s Today morning franchise, plans to step down from the role later in August. In a memo issued to staffers on Thursday, Libby Leist, an SVP at NBC News who oversees Today, said LaMarca was eager to spend more time with family, and had initially taken the job in 2019 with the intention to stay for a year.

On July 19, NewsNation: Rush Hour will be anchored by Nichole Berlie at 6 p.m. ET, with On Balance with Leland Vittert debuting at 8.

She joins from Entravision Communications to lead newsgathering at Univision New York.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday claimed the National Security Agency leaked some of his private emails to journalists. Carlson made the allegation during a Wednesday morning appearance on Fox Business’ Mornings with Maria.