Journalism

As Colorado’s civic community tries to mount a journalistic rescue mission and buy The Denver Post, it is looking to Salt Lake City and other cities like Boston, Minneapolis and Philadelphia that have seen wealthy residents keep their newspapers viable. What happens in Denver could be a signal to a battered newspaper industry, reeling from dwindling ad revenues, of what the future looks like.

The National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation will honor these winners June 12 at a dinner in Washington.

Bahakel Communications-owned ABC affiliate WOLO Columbia, S.C. (DMA 77) today appointed Claire Richardson and Curtis Wilson co-anchors of Good Morning Columbia airing Monday-Friday at 5-7 a.m. Wilson is a long-time […]

The untold story of how Lisa Howard’s intimate diplomacy with Cuba’s revolutionary leader changed the course of the Cold War.

Weigel Broadcasting-owned ABC affiliate WBND-LD South Bend, Ind. (DMA 96), has appointed Breanne Palmerini evening news anchor. Palmerini will join co-anchor Brian Conybeare on the 5pm, 5:30pm, 6pm and 11pm […]

ABC and NBC are marching to new kinds of screens in the eternal battle between Good Morning America and Today for A.M. viewers. GMA is revamping the digital extensions of the flagship ABC morning program, said Michael Corn, the show’s senior executive producer.

To attract young viewers, stations are going digital-first, crowdsourcing reporting, experimenting with augmented reality, and injecting more personality into the news.

Richard M. Blystone, a longtime Associated Press correspondent who covered the Vietnam War and went on to become one of the first journalists at the CNN network even before it […]

The Washington Post nabbed the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism for exposing Senate candidate Roy Moore’s past. Indira Lakshmanan writes that in an era of numerous fake news charges lobbed against the paper by the president, “the series was most extraordinary for its transparency, breaking the fourth wall between the newsroom and readers by revealing those techniques to readers.”

Michael M. Grynbaum and John Koblin write that Fox News reserves a special degree of latitude for its “undisputed prime-time star” unlike other hosts at the network who are faster to draw rebuke for conflicts of interest. And they note that Hannity’s cozy relationship with the president, who has granted him numerous interviews and often sought his counsel, “has been good for business.”

NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel says its management was unaware until it came out in court that host Sean Hannity shared a lawyer with President Donald Trump, but […]

“We’re super excited to work with @ABC and combine our strengths with theirs as we tackle the 2018 and 2020 elections and other news stories,” Silver said on Twitter. The site will continue working with ESPN on sports content, said EVP Content Connor Schell, who praised FiveThirtyEight’s work. 

Hoda Kotb, Issa Rae, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Katie Couric, Megan Mullally, Pam Oliver, Reese Witherspoon, and Shirley Strawberry will be among the honorees at a May 22 ceremony in Los Angeles. Local and student award winners to be honored at the Gracie Awards Luncheon on June 27 in New York.

NEW YORK (AP) — Before airing George Stephanopoulos’ interview with former FBI Director James Comey, ABC News made the unusual decision of releasing a full transcript of its nearly five-hour talk, including […]

KCRA, Hearst’s NBC affiliate in California’s capital, is the leader in social media actions in the market over the last six months with more than 4.1 million actions on social, 36% of the total engagement generated by the DMA. The secret sauce to KCRA’s success is its pervasive culture that digital is important, says Devon Armijo, digital media manager. “It allows us not only to produce emotionally relevant content for the Facebook platform, but it also allows us to be creative and innovative and have fun with it and I think that’s a big part of our success.”