A reporter for the site estimates the effort has the support of “90%” of eligible employees. The BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti has spoken against the idea.
Exclusives
KSWO Meteorologist Fired Over Noose Riddle
A supporter of President Trump “violently pushed and shoved” a camera operator during the president’s rally in El Paso, Texas, on Monday, the broadcaster said.
NEW YORK (AP) — Katie Couric is writing a memoir, one she is counting on to live up to its title: “Unexpected.” In an announcement Tuesday, the publisher Little, Brown […]
Researchers at Northeastern University in Boston say their survey of 613 viewers in six TV markets shows conventional wisdom about what local TV viewers want is not true. The research says the notion that viewers want fast-paced newscasts is not necessarily true. “Asked to describe what their ideal local news program would look like, respondents fairly consistently chose depth over efficiency.”
Old TV News Footage Is New Content At WCIA
Alden Global Capital’s strategy: Buy newspapers, slash jobs, sell the buildings. Now it’s bidding to buy Gannett, operator of the nation’s largest chain of daily newspapers by circulation, including USA Today — as well as its $900 million in remaining property and equipment — for more than $1.3 billion.
KOTV Sports Anchor Harold Kuntz Joining WDAF
News Director Job In Calif.’s Central Valley
Nexstar NBC-CBS affiliates KSEE-KGPE Fresno-Visalia, Calif., have an opening for a news director. To post a job on TVNewsCheck, click here.
WTSP Fires Longtime Anchor Reginald Roundtree
KARK News Dir. Moves To Nexstar Corporate
Austin Kellerman, news director at Nexstar NBC affiliate KARK Little Rock, Ark., is climbing the Nexstar ladder to join the corporate team as the station group’s director of digital content based in Irving, Texas.
The cable-news outlet this week is reaching out to Madison Avenue with a marketing effort that aims to remind advertisers and media buyers about how well-watched the network’s programming is and how much people talk about it. A new marketing slogan, “America Is Watching,” has been trademarked and a map of the United States has been created showing that no matter whether the region tilts red or blue politically, Fox News is the most-watched cable-news outlet there.
Veteran radio and television broadcaster Arnold Freedman (also known as Marc Edwards) died on Feb. 8 in Sarasota Fla. A true media pioneer, he was able to turn a lifelong […]
Bob Costas says he lost his job co-hosting the Super Bowl on NBC last year after the network told him he “crossed the line,” a teaser for an upcoming E:60 report from ESPN shows. Although the teaser doesn’t explicitly mention why Costas was let go, he has, on multiple occasions, called attention to the brain damage players suffer during and after their careers.
WZTV Meteorologist Calls Out Nasty Comments From Viewers
Aisha Howard Joining WXIA’s 11 PM News
WJXT Chronicles Disappearance Of 5-Year-Old Girl
WJXT, Graham Media’s independent station in Jacksonville, Fla., hopes a series of special reports and podcasts will generate new leads. The television special reports are about 3 minutes, and the podcasts, more in-depth, run about 22 minutes.
An attorney representing American Media Inc. CEO David Pecker says his client did not engage in extortion or blackmail against Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Speaking on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, attorney Elkan Abramowitz said the primary source for the Enquirer’s investigation into Bezos’ love life was a longtime tipster for the tabloid magazine.
Jeff Bezos Can Sue The Pants Off National Enquirer
A lawsuit could change the way we think about privacy in the digital age. Privacy is not quite dead. For egregious cases, there are remedies lying ready to hand in the civil law of torts, at least for the case that Bezos might want to bring against AMI.
Federal prosecutors are looking into the National Enquirer’s handling of a story about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ extramarital affair to see if the tabloid’s publisher violated a cooperation agreement with prosecutors, the Associated Press reported on Friday.
