“Carlson’s comments could have been brought up when he was an employee of other networks, but they weren’t,” argues Tim Young.
Tucker Carlson says he has the full support of his employer, Fox News, even as the progressive advocacy group Media Matters for America on Monday spotlighted a new trove of offensive remarks he made on years-ago radio shows.
Peabody has added five new members to its board of directors, a group of prominent entertainment and media industry leaders providing support for the program’s current and future initiatives. Launched […]
Ann Curry Eying Network News Comeback
Ann Curry, who left NBC’s Today in 2012, has had “informal talks” with CBS brass to become co-anchor of CBS This Morning, but is really interested in hosting CBS Evening News or joining 60 Minutes as a correspondent, according to a source close to newswoman.
Exclusives
Battling To Be A Middle-Age Female Anchor
There is no fighting sexism on television without fighting age discrimination along with it.
Tribune’s Greensboro, N.C. Fox affiliate will introduce a half-hour broadcast on May 1.
Why I didn’t Run The Stormy Daniels Story
Ken LaCorte: “Two weeks before the 2016 presidential election, as the editorial head of Fox News online, I reviewed a draft news story that said porn actress Stormy Daniels had confirmed having an affair with Donald Trump a decade earlier. The only problem was … Stormy hadn’t said that.”
Three Media Jobs From TVN’s Media Job Center
Cox’s KIRO in Seattle has an opening for a news director. Sony Pictures Television is looking for a vice president, syndicated sales. KCCI Des Moines, Iowa, needs an assistant director of engineering.
Trump has now burned through five communications directors, raising the question of whether he really even wants one.
In a rare rebuke of a high-profile host, Fox News on Sunday night came out strongly against the comments made a day earlier by host Jeanine Pirro about Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. “We strongly condemn Jeanine Pirro’s comments about Rep. Ilhan Omar,” the network said. “They do not reflect those of the network and we have addressed the matter with her directly.”
Newspaper circulation in the U.S. has declined every year for three decades, while advertising revenue has nosedived since 2006, according to the Pew Research Center. Staffing at newspapers large and small has followed that grim trendline: Pew says the number of reporters, editors, photographers and other newsroom employees in the industry fell by 45 percent nationwide between 2004 and 2017.
Newspapers are closing or being consolidated at an astounding rate, often leaving behind what researchers label as news deserts — towns and even entire counties that have no consistent local media coverage.
KXLY Anchor Nadine Woodward Retires, Eyes Mayoral Run
President Donald Trump has accepted the resignation of his communications director, Bill Shine, a former Fox News executive who had spent just nine months on the job. Shine will join the president’s re-election campaign as a “senior adviser.” It was not immediately clear if the president urged Shine to resign, or the extent to which he will be directly involved in Trump’s 2020 operation.
The White House press briefing is dead. It was awful, but we should still mourn it. The array of subjects and controversies about which we lack even basic information shows just how much the public is losing because the White House has shut down legitimate, regular inquiries.
Paul Caron Named WHNT News Director
Tribune’s CBS affiliate in Huntsville, Ala., promotes its assistant news director to succeed Denise Vickers who left the station in January to become GM of WFXG Augusta, Ga.
Gayle King, Norah O’Donnell, John Dickerson and Bianna Golodryga have scored a notable string of scoops for CBS This Morning in recent weeks. Now executives at the network’s news division are considering something that would also make headlines — a new anchor lineup for the show.
One definite Democratic presidential candidate, and another possible candidate, are speaking out against the Democratic National Committee’s decision to not allow Fox News to host any of their party’s primary debates.
The Society of Professional Journalists today said it “is outraged at evidence that the United States government created a secret database that includes information about journalists covering the migrant caravan that led to excessive detention of journalists at the southern border and even denial of entry.”
New York’s First Lady Grilled On WNYW
It’s Time To Take Fox News’s Role Seriously
Democrats are shunning the network for their debates. Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan calls that a mild, reasonable step that recognizes the reality that Fox News shouldn’t be treated as an honest broker of political news.
NBCU Stations’ Weather Forecast: Top Notch
Director of Weather Operations Nate Johnson leads the NBC and Telemundo stations’ weather efforts, which have been rated “most accurate.” The achievement is primarily that of the individual meteorologists, but it also reflects the group’s commitment to providing those weather pros with the best in forecasting tools and other support. Johnson talks about the group’s focus on combining accuracy with smart, relevant storytelling.
