Journalism

Reporting on sexual harassment — including the predations of the film mogul Harvey Weinstein — was recognized by the Pulitzer board.

The disclosure that President Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen had also done legal work for Fox News host Sean Hannity came as a New York judge disappointed a lawyer for Trump by letting prosecutors proceed with the cataloguing of evidence including multiple electronic devices that were seized in raids while a system is set up to ensure that records protected by attorney-client privilege aren’t disclosed to investigators.

Compelling stories address issues of the day, including gun violence, climate change and immigration.

The latest RTDNA/Hofstra University Survey has found that total local TV news employment has surpassed total newspaper employment for the first time in more than 20 years of research.

Local television stations are feeling it from every direction. Viewers have more choices, stations face more competitors, and owners demand more returns. None of this is new, only exaggerated. Here are some ideas on how to make local news relevant again,

A new Morning Consult/Politico poll finds a 41% plurality trust local news more than national news, but many rely more on national news to stay informed.

Nearly 400 family and friends gathered Sunday on the field at the historic stadium where Jackson, the folksy voice of college football for decades on ABC, called a record 15 New Year’s Day games — the last in 2006. Jackson died on Jan. 12 at age 89.

Michael Ferro, the tech entrepreneur and would-be media mogul who was the largest shareholder in Tronc, the parent company of the Chicago Tribune, is leaving the newspaper business. According to a filing late Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Ferro is selling all of his stock in tronc to McCormick Media, a new ownership group reportedly tied to the family of the late Colonel Robert McCormick, longtime publisher of the Chicago Tribune.

The New York billionaire’s buyout shop Apollo Global Management is eyeing an acquisition of publishing empire Tronc — swooping in as negotiations to sell the company’s Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune papers have stalled.

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, who will soon take over the newspaper, dropped a bombshell to employees on Friday: He is moving the offices to El Segundo.

Scripps-owned ABC affiliate WCPO Cincinnati has a full-time “comics journalist” on staff. He illustrates serious stories that others might avoid, stories that are difficult to photograph because the subjects are too vulnerable.

The Hollywood Reporter names the year’s top news players and teams influencing how Americans get their information in a 24/7 Trump-fueled news cycle.

The newspaper took the unusual step of using its pages to publicly excoriate its out-of-town owner on Sunday. A civic group wants to return the paper to local ownership.

Former Los Angeles Times editor-in-chief Lewis D’Vorkin and dozens of other employees of Tronc Inc. were dismissed on Thursday. The cuts, which were made in a joint meeting with all the laid off employees present, included Tribune Interactive’s Los Angeles-based video and online content teams, which operate separately from the Los Angeles Times. No information on the total number of layoffs was immediately available.

Quincy Media’s NBC/ABC affiliate WPTA Fort Wayne, Ind. (DMA 111), has hired Julian Teekaram as co-anchor on Fort Wayne’s NBC News Today, effective immediately. Teekaram assumes her new role from […]

Quincy Media-owned ABC affiliate WKOW Madison, Wis. (DMA 81) has named George Smith evening news anchor. Smith will join co-anchor Amber Noggle on the news desk weeknights at 5, 6 […]

Fox News Channel’s day-opener seems much like it has for 20 years, a peppy talk show about news that advances a conservative point of view, and is mocked by some critics for a lack of intellectual rigor. The difference now is that one of its regular viewers is the most powerful person in the world, who takes his cues from what he sees.