Journalism

The current temperatures. The satellite map. The 10-day forecast. They’re all sturdy staples of the weather report on your local station. But nowadays, they’re not enough to compete with the convenient phone apps in every viewer’s pocket. Meteorologists need to give viewers something more than an app can provide. And many have responded by breaking down walls between weather and news, and using journalistic storytelling to deepen their coverage.

Chris Daniels, chief reporter at KING Seattle, has been captured on camera at least 32 times drinking with local and state politicians. “I just don’t want to do politics the way it has been done in the past.”

A free trial offers access to live streams, archived search and clipping tool in time for U.S. Election Day.

The man who helped create Fox News as the most influential platform for conservative politics in America fully expects that Biden will win — and frankly isn’t too bothered by that.

In a year crammed with arresting news images, local broadcaster Tegna has started to leverage photos and videos shot by its audience. Over the past five months, Tegna station reporters and producers have been combing through photos and videos that people have submitted to their CMS using a feature in their stations’ mobile apps called Near Me.

In the months leading up to the 2020 presidential election, the spokesman-and-surrogate smackdown has become a popular cable-news ritual. Once reluctant to brand transparently false statements as lies, or betray frustration with their interview subjects, even the most traditionally neutral anchors now seem eager to join the fray — or perhaps compelled into it by the slippery interview stylings of the Trump White House and campaign staff.

The 23-year news veteran moves from CBSN Boston to oversee news operations at the O&O.

Galen Gordon, VP for the National Football League Media Group, has joined ABC News as SVP for talent strategy and development, starting Nov. 30. He reports to ABC News President James Goldston.

Media planners are preaching caution in the face of a surge in early voting, high anxiety levels overall and a president who raises the specter of another disputed election. “We need to prepare ourselves for a different kind of election night,” said Feist, CNN’s Washington bureau chief, “and the word I keep using is ‘patience.’”

She’s been with the Scripps ABC affiliate in Waco, Texas, since 2015 as an executive producer, then assistant news director.

Here are the complete videos of TVNewsCheck’s TV2025: Monetizing the Future conference, featuring a keynote interview with CBS Corp.’s top researcher Radha Subramanyam, the CEOs of E.W. Scripps, Sinclair, Graham Media and Allen Media and a Station Group of the Year interview with NBCU Stations’ chief Valari Staab.

NBCLX, the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations streaming news service aimed at Gen Z, will be offering election night coverage on its over-the-top, linear, digital, mobile and cable platforms. Coverage starts at 8 p.m. ET with storytellers embedded in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington.