The two executives named to head a newly fashioned division that combines the CBS local stations with CBS News and the team that manages the CBSN live-streaming news service offered their early vision for how the operation will function. Both Wendy McMahon and Neeraj Khemlani suggested in their first outreach to staffers that the company’s ultimate product will combine the national and overseas heft of CBS News with feet on the ground in various cities where CBS operates.
The long-time television journalist moves from Magid to oversee news operations at the CBS duopoly in Miami.
Gray’s NBC affiliate in Lansing, Mich., taps WDIO Duluth, Minn., news chief to succeed Barbara Roethler.
Openings In News And Marketing
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include openings for a news producer in Memphis, a brand manager in Baltimore and a senior writer/producer in Albuquerque, N.M.
Exclusives
Monday Memo | Magis Media’s Election Tool Repurposed For Vaccines
TV stations that used Magis Media’s election mapping software say a new version that tracks COVID vaccine data is much like the election display — easy to use and visually dynamic for better storytelling.
The conservative news network, in a statement published on its website and to be read on TV, said that while it aired accusations of voter machine manipulation against Dominion Voting Systems Security Director Eric Coomer made by Donald Trump’s lawyers and supporters, it found no evidence that they were true.
Jim Stimson, assistant news director of Hearst-owned NBC affiliate KCRA Sacramento, Calif., has been chosen to receive a Governors’ Citation from the San Francisco/Northern California Chapter of the National Academy […]
Stewart Bainum is making a third try to keep the newspaper chain away from the hedge fund Alden Global Capital, which is poised to be the company’s next owner.
TVNewsCheck‘s Michael Depp talks with Mim Davey, VP of news at Fox-owned KMSP in Minneapolis, about the station’s gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Derek Chauvin trial and how Black Lives Matter and the social justice movement have impacted newsroom priorities.
Last month, Cronkite News challenged itself to produce 30 TikToks in as many days — an effort to get the newsroom experimenting with the short-form mobile video platform that’s gained more than a billion users since its worldwide launch in 2017, but has yet to catch on widely with local TV stations. By the end of the month-long challenge, the newsroom had trounced its initial goal and produced 65 TikToks. Here’s what was learned.
Megan Albano and Jerry Andrews join the network’s weekend programming leadership team in New York. Greg Headen is promoted to vice president of news coverage, while Doug Rohrbeck is elevated to senior vice president of DC news.
He joins the station on May 3 from KTRK Houston, another ABC Owned Television Station.
Christine Cruz has joined Hearst-owned NBC affiliate WXII Winston-Salem, N.C., as an anchor. She joins co-anchor Talitha Vickers and meteorologist Michelle Kennedy for the 4 p.m. newscast and co-anchor Kenny […]
Telemundo’s KTLM Harlingen, Texas, has hired Gabriela Gutiérrez as weather anchor for Noticias Telemundo 40, Fin de Semana. Gutiérrez will join news anchor Antonio Rodriguez and sports anchor Hector Severeyn on […]
Brainstorm, a manufacturer of real-time 3D graphics and virtual studio solutions, has completed the TelePorter project, funded by the Google Digital News Initiative. Thanks to Brainstorm’s augmented reality technology, TelePorter […]
WSLS’s Newscasts To Pop Up In Different Towns
A months-long war of words between CNN and Project Veritas has escalated into an actual libel suit. On Tuesday, James O’Keefe’s operation filed a complaint in Georgia after a CNN anchor discussed Twitter’s suspension of Project Veritas and attempted to explain that “this is part of a much broader crackdown … by social media giants on accounts that are promoting misinformation.”
