White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s first news conference with reporters on Wednesday stood in stark contrast to Sean Spicer’s first time before reporters four years earlier. Spicer made the plainly false claim that President Donald Trump’s inauguration crowd was the largest in history, which he later said he regretted. Psaki’s session was sedate, even boring at times, due at least in part to the newness of the administration.
Biden’s Inaugural Speech Calls Out The Media
“Recent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit.”
As Trump completes his time in office with made-for-TV images, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos says, “The image in my head is Richard Nixon in 1974.”
Covering the weather that included more than 500 storms and related weather events, Pat Shingleton, “The Weatherman,” Manship’s ABC affiliate WBRZ Baton Rouge, La., is “closing his umbrella” on Friday, […]
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Hearst Television’s NBC-CW duopoly of WPTZ-WNNE Burlington, Vt., has added Alice Kang to the NBC5 News evening team as a news anchor. She joins anchors Brian Colleran and Stewart Ledbetter, […]
Bill Sammon, senior vice president and managing editor at Fox’s Washington bureau, announced his retirement to staff members on Monday. On Tuesday, as part of a restructuring of Fox’s digital operations, politics editor Chris Stirewalt was let go. Fox’s decision — the correct one — to call Arizona for Joe Biden took the network’s anchors by surprise and infuriated the White House, which believed the determination was premature.
The inauguration ofJoseph R. Biden Jr.and Kamala Harris as the president and vice president of the United States will take place Wednesday, Jan. 20, with events interspersed throughout the day, highlighted by the swearing-in ceremony at noon ET, following by Biden’s inaugural address. Here is the cable network coverage plans for the inauguration of America’s 46th president, listed in alphabetical order. The broadcast network coverage plans posted Monday.
ABC News named Cecilia Vega the Disney news unit’s chief White House correspondent.
The company had added to its workforce to help with its coverage of the 2020 election, and with the election over the company is adjusting its staffing to account for the less intense news cycle.
Hosted by WNBC New York Digital Reporter Kay Angrum and produced by WNBC, LX News New York gives Tri-State audiences a daily roundup of the news and community stories happening around them.
The new Fox News Primetime opinion show has set a slate of rotating hosts, mostly familiar faces for the network.
The inauguration of Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Kamala Harris as president and vice president of the United States will take place on Wednesday, Jan. 20, with events interspersed throughout the day, highlighted by the swearing-in ceremony at noon ET, and President Biden’s inaugural address immediately after. Here’s how broadcast networks are covering the inauguration of America’s 46th president.
The country’s best female political reporters go on the record about what it was really like covering Trump’s America.
Three Ways The Media Can Vanquish The Big Lie
Why did the network demand an agreement with the family of a murdered young man remain undisclosed until after the election?
Sinclair’s The National Desk, a three-hour morning news program, debuted today on Sinclair’s 190-plus stations. Promising commentary-free news coverage from both local and national perspectives, the program is based out of WJLA’s studios in Washington.
Consumer Content Producer Opening In Sunny Locale
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a consumer producer at the NBC-Telemundo duopoly in San Francisco.
Tegna’s CBS affiliate WUSA Washington, D.C., announced that Tony Perkins will be taking over as host of Get Up DC!, its morning show. Perkins has been a part of the […]
State capitols across the country are under heightened security after the siege of the U.S. Capitol last week. Above, a member of the Pennsylvania Capitol Police stands guard at the entrance to the Pennsylvania Capitol Complex in Harrisburg, Pa., on Jan. 13.
It’s time to stop fueling President Trump’s lie that the election was rigged, and broadcast needs to play an important role in doing so. The NAB must cut off support to the lie’s congressional enablers, talk radio must sever ties with hosts fueling the lie and TV stations need unequivocal language to characterize it for what it is.
The Trump-affiliated attorneys were once a regular presence with baseless claims of election fraud. That has changed since a legal pushback from voting-technology companies.
