Journalism

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Sinclair-owned ABC affiliate WJLA Washington (DMA 6) has introduced the free crowd-sourced TrafficWatch7 App, what it calls “the only news station navigation app in the D.C. area.” TrafficWatch7 App lets […]

Jacob Soboroff’s charged reports for NBC and MSNBC from the Texas border, where children were being separated from their parents, helped push President Trump into a rare policy reversal.

CEO Suzanne Scott summoned producers to a meeting to direct them to take more control over hosts and panelists. Scott told the producers that they would be held accountable for anything said on their air, and that it was their job to head off any inappropriate remarks.

NBC is marking six months with its new team of Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb at Today, a pairing made necessary by Matt Lauer’s firing on sexual misconduct charges. Their performance has allowed NBC News to recover from the shock with little apparent damage to its most valuable property, even as morning television in general adjusts to a world in which many people reach for smartphones instead of TV remotes upon waking.

The former Fox News executive, who was ousted for his handling of sexual harassment scandals at the network, met with President Trump in recent weeks for the communications director post left open by Hope Hicks.

The percentage of women and people of color in TV newsrooms and in TV news management are at the highest levels ever measured, but while the minority population in the U.S. has risen 12.4 points in the last 28 years, the minority workforce in TV news is up just 7.

Appearing as the keynote interview of the Promax/BDA Station Summit in Las Vegas, David Muir of ABC’s World News Tonight and 20/20; Jeff Glor of the CBS Evening News; and Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News and Dateline NBC, agreed they bear a special responsibility in the age of fake news, 24-hour-a-day cable news and mobile devices that keep audiences tuned to breaking news all day long.

WTVC, Sinclair’s ABC affiliate, leads in social media actions in the market over the last six months thanks to a combination of posts featuring breaking news accompanied with images and video, a wide variety of shared video plus Facebook Lives from reporters on the scene of news.

CBS News has named Michele Perez Exner communications director for its Washington bureau and Sunday Beltway show Face the Nation. Prior to joining CBS News, Exner was press secretary for South Carolina’s Republican U.S. Senator Tim Scott. Before joining Scott’s team, Exner spent eight years in the U.S. Marines, working in communications, marketing and advertising, as well as an instructor and a public affairs officer.

Another itinerant news director is coming to Chicago to fix WBBM, the perpetually troubled CBS O&O. It’s Jeff Harris, news director at WEWS, the ABC affiliate in Cleveland. He’s expected to join WBBM on July 16.

The Supreme Court said Monday it won’t weigh in on the case of a teenager convicted of rape and murder whose story was documented in the Netflix series Making a Murderer. As is typical, the justices did not explain their decision declining to take the case. The justices’ decision leaves in place a lower court ruling against Brendan Dassey.

Newsroom managers, when is the last time you looked at your coverage to ask who is missing, and why? Across the country, communities are changing, and newsrooms have not only a mission but also a business imperative to serve the whole community.