Journalism

The network announced its commentary team Monday: Dan Hicks and Mike Tirico will share play-by-play duties with an analyst assigned to each. The four-wide booth will have Hicks calling even-numbered holes with Brandel Chamblee and Tirico calling the odd-numbered holes with Brad Faxon.

Al Primo & His Eyewitness News Revolution takes you back to the early days of television news to hear the behind-the-scenes stories of its revolution from the people who were there.

Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close Sunday, escalating a long-running feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-line government as Doha-mediated cease-fire negotiations with Hamas hang in the balance.

Godwin, the first Black woman to lead a network news division, said Sunday she was retiring from the business. Godwin was recruited as an outsider from CBS News and was beset by grumbling about her management style that made it into print. Her leaving comes after parent Walt Disney Co. installed one of its executives, Debra O’Connell, to oversee the news division.

As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate.

Sean McLaughlin: To assess local TV’s compensation problem in the cold light of day means acknowledging hard market realities. Here’s what the industry needs to address them and some potential solutions that won’t be without controversy.

The Pulitzer Center has officially kicked off The AI Spotlight Series, a new training initiative that aims to teach 1,000 journalists how to do AI accountability reporting over the next two years. On April 21, roughly 40 journalists gathered at the University of California, Berkeley for the inaugural “Introduction to AI reporting” session, which was built to demystify basic AI concepts for reporters outside the tech beat.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Thursday plugged her bill in Congress aimed at helping local media get more compensation from the likes of Facebook and Google by collaborating under an exemption from antitrust regulation — fittingly at the Business of TV News event in Washington. The Minnesota Democrat, who chairs the Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights, co-sponsored (with Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana) the Journalism, Competition and Preservation Act. That bill, which she said cleared the Judiciary Committee by a 14-7 bipartisan vote, helps address the challenges faced by news organizations that have seen revenue decline while Big Tech thrives.

Sports, politics, sex, SpongeBob: There’s nothing ESPN’s biggest star won’t argue about — as long as you keep listening.

Katherine Maher, the radio network’s new chief executive, has been in the spotlight since an editor published an essay accusing the organization of leftward-leaning bias.

As desperate AI companies face training data shortages, news organizations are finding new ways to fight back against the AI scraping of their content without permission (Jon Accarrino/MidJourney). This is the debut of TVNewsCheck’s new AI & TV column from veteran executive Jon Accarrino, founder of the media technology and AI strategy firm Ordo Digital.