Journalism

CNN will make its June 27 presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump available for simulcast by other networks, a spokesperson said Friday. ABC News, which is planning a Sept. 10 debate, has said that it will provide the feed to other networks.

Michael Cohen, who continued to testify Thursday, invoked from the stand the names of several high-profile media figures, putting their relationships with the former Trump fixer in the spotlight.

Journalists participating in the pilot program will use AI to produce bulleted “key points” of their stories.

One day after President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump agreed to a pair of debates on CNN and ABC News, Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted an invitation from CBS News to debate her yet-to-be-revealed Republican rival. The proposed debate will take place on either July 23 or Aug. 13.

Now is not the best time for women in TV. According to recent research by the Creative Diversity Network, whose Diamond report collects data from the U.K.’s big broadcasters, the gender gap is widening. One female director hides that she has a child; younger women face a 39% gender pay gap; and harassment is widespread. Insiders say it’s a wonder the television industry has any women left at all.

In a matter of hours, two networks outmaneuvered their rivals and landed a coveted pair of Biden-Trump primetime debates.

Google on Tuesday announced that it will infuse its ubiquitous search engine with its powerful artificial intelligence model, Gemini, drawing on the rapidly advancing technology to directly answer user queries at the top of results pages. On its surface that might sound convenient, but for news publishers — many of whom are already struggling with steep traffic declines — the revamped search experience will likely cause an even further decrease in audience, potentially starving them of readers and revenue. Within hours of the Mountain View announcement, the news industry began sounding the alarm.

On Tuesday, there were no scheduled debates between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Now President Biden says there are two. First was the self-described “breaking news” announcement this morning by CNN boss Mark Thompson at the Warner Bros Discovery upfront of one debate on CNN on June 27. Then, less than 45 minutes after the CNN announcement, Biden said there is a second debate coming Sept.10 on ABC.

The veteran award-winning broadcast news executive will be honored at the group’s annual gathering June 12-14 in Milwaukee.

There’s a growing temptation to believe that the network has waned in power and influence. Don’t give in to it — especially not in 2024.

NBC’s leaders have been forced to grapple with how to square its cable news network’s embrace of progressive politics with the company’s straight-news operation.

Technology leaders from NBC Regional Sports Networks, Sinclair, Gray Television, Hearst Television and Fox Television Stations discuss the benefits and challenges of remote production in an IP environment in a TVNewsCheck Working Lunch webinar on July 16 at 1 p.m. ET. Register here.

In this newly created corporate position, the former GM of KNTV and KMCC Las Vegas will oversee Scripps’ local news content strategy alongside Kate O’Brian, Scripps’ president of news.

A group of prominent conservative operatives and businesspeople are dishing out more than $1 million to launch a new media company aimed at reaching conservative members of Congress and their staffers, sources say. The new outlet, called Washington Reporter, is being launched by Republican political consultants and former Hill staffers Garrett Ventry and Brian Colas, four sources familiar with the effort add.

Sam Feist, the longtime Washington bureau chief of CNN, will become the next CEO of C-SPAN. Feist will succeed Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain, who have been in the role as co-CEOs since 2012. Founding CEO Brian Lamb remains on the board of directors.