Journalism

Rep. Devin Nunes is sitting on an eye-popping pile of money he’s raised in recent months, with little reason to spend it yet. Except for one splurge: an unusually aggressive — and sustained — offensive against his local newspaper, which he is tearing into as “fake news.” In a campaign ad running more than two minutes — and appearing not only online, but also on radio and TV — Nunes casts the dominant newspaper in his California district as a “band of creeping correspondents,” criticizing The Fresno Bee for its routine reporting practices and for its coverage of a controversy surrounding a winery in which the Republican congressman invests.

Dan Shelley, executive director of the Radio Television Digital News Association, took to USA Today to call out Fox News Channel for its interviews with President Donald Trump — conducted by Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson — following his joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but praised Chris Wallace’s one-on-one with Putin.

InvestigateTV, Raycom Media’s OTT app, announced a new content partnership with Investigative Network, which it describes as “a first of its kind nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to producing video- and […]

A federal judge on Tuesday lifted a controversial order requiring The Los Angeles Times to delete information in an article published over the weekend. U.S. District Judge John Walter walked back his original decision after the Times protested with the support of newsrooms across the country, citing First Amendment concerns.

CNN is launching a new business website and expanding its technology coverage, part of a broader restructuring of the network’s digital operation after it missed financial targets last year. Starting this fall, CNN will group its business websites — CNN Money, CNN Tech and CNN Media — under the new brand CNN Business.

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona State University is awarding its 2018 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. He will receive the award on Oct. 17 […]

The former director of digital operations at WLS-TV Chicago is tapped by Quincy Media to lead news efforts at its ABC affiliate in Wausau-Rhinelander, Wis.

After Twitter announced it would revise follower counts to cease counting fake and locked accounts toward total followers, how much were American networks docked? Here’s a list of the major U.S. broadcast and cable news networks’ Twitter followers before the purge, after the purge and the approximate percent loss.

Longtime WTNH Hartford, Conn., news director Keith Connorsis is heading up Route 91 to the Meredith-owned CBS affiliate WFSB where he will be the new executive news director. Connors fills the opening left behind when the station promoted Dana Neves to VP-GM of the station in March 2018.