Fox & Friends and Sean Hannity rack up ratings victories while cheerleading for the president, whose approval numbers hit a high point in June.
Brian Ross, the veteran ABC News investigative correspondent who embarrassed the network late last year with an on-air report suggesting former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had been told by President Donald Trump to make contact with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign for the Oval Office, is leaving the network, along with Rhonda Schwartz, who served as the chief investigative producer for Ross’ team.
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In an effort to address the issue of dwindling trust in the media, the Society of Professional Journalists has named veteran journalist Rod Hicks as its first Journalist on Call. SPJ’s Journalist […]
DMA 46: GREENSBORO, NC
Tracy Clemons Named Morning Anchor At WGHP
Tracy Clemons has been named morning news anchor at WGHP, Tribune Broadcasting’s Fox affiliate in Greensboro/High Point/Winston-Salem (DMA 46). Clemons joins Cindy Farmer, Brad Jones, Melissa Painter and Meteorologist Emily […]
DMA 48: GREENSBORO, NC
WXII Brings On New Morning Meteorologist
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DMA 18: ORLANDO, FL
WTMO Orlando Adds Two Multimedia Journalists
Telemundo-owned WTMO-CD Orlando, Fla. (DMA 18) today announced that Felix Pirela and Yunaisy Garcia have been named multimedia journalists. They will report for the station’s weekday newscasts that air at 5, 5:30, […]
Mitchell, who’s about to celebrate 40 years at NBC, remains one of Washington’s most dogged reporters, literally outrunning — and scooping — colleagues, many of whom are decades her junior. At 71, she has covered seven presidents, the nuclear arms race, and such events as the Jonestown massacre and the Three Mile Island accident, and she’s as busy as ever now as the chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News and the host of MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports.
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Tribune Wins 19 Promax Awards At Station Summit
The news website targeted to the business news needs of the TV broadcasting industry debuts a new look, powered by a new operating system, today. Changes include the introduction of premium content, an easier-to-use MediaJobCenter and the promise of more services to come. What hasn’t changed: a commitment to providing the best breaking news rundown in the TV trade press — continuously updated throughout the day — and the best in-depth trend stories and analysis available to the industry.
President Trump has long called mainstream media “the enemy of the people,” but after the deadly Annapolis newsroom shooting, he now says reporters should be “free from fear” of violence.
DMA 22: PORTLAND, OR
KATU Reporter Harassed During Live Shot
KUSA, Tegna’s Denver NBC affiliate, has appointed Eric Valadez as the station’s director of content. In this newly created role, Valadez will oversee the vision, hiring and strategy for all KUSA coverage and distribution of news across all content platforms.
Five employees of the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md., were shot dead Thursday afternoon in the paper’s newsroom, and several more were wounded. Jarrod Warren Ramos, swiftly arrested by police after the attack, was charged Friday with five counts of first-degree murder. Tom Marquardt, retired publisher and top editor at the paper, told the paper that he had long been concerned about Ramos’ history of escalating social media attacks against the newspaper and its journalists.
PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff (above) is honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award. It was presented to her by last year’s honoree, Jane Pauley who said: “There should be no more exalted role in society than the role of journalists. When that ceases to be, we will no longer rightfully call ourselves a free society.”
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Finlayson: Mobile, Social Key To Drive Viewers
SmithGeiger exec Andrew Finlayson says smartphones are a critically important tool for stations in driving viewership. “You can reach out to viewers watching Netflix or Amazon and tell them you have breaking news. Mobile screens really matter. Get people to reach for the remote.”
The best way to better cover underserved communities is for newsrooms to reflect those communities, and newsrooms still have a way to go on that front, and there’s actually a growing gap in financial investment in newsroom diversity and inclusion.
Tegna consumer reporter and digital deal hunter Matt Granite leads the DealBoss coverage across TV and digital. The service provides discounts, information and reviews from major online stores and many smaller, independent retailers.
DMA 6: WASHINGTON
WJLA Launches Crowd-Sourced Traffic App
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 […]
