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.
The journalism will be shown on air and across Scripps News and ProPublica digital platforms. Scripps News will also feature ProPublica reporters on local and national programming regularly to highlight the organization’s original reporting.
With no cameras recording Donald Trump’s criminal trial, anchors and producers are improvising to animate dramatic moments like Michael Cohen’s testimony. Pictured: Michael Cohen leaving his apartment building on his way to Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday. (Julia Nikhinson/AP)
Bloomberg Media and Tokyo Broadcasting System Television today announced a new content partnership to bring Japanese news consumers expanded access to premium business and financial news from Bloomberg through TBS […]
Jesse Pagan, an award-winning journalist with Central Florida roots, joins Hearst’s NBC affiliate WESH Orlando, Fla., as an anchor-reporter beginning May 15. Pagan comes to WESH from KFMB San Diego […]
Local TV broadcasting is facing some challenges these days, and I thought perhaps we could all use a laugh or two. Here are some examples of the Saturday Night Live cast faking local TV news from cities like Tampa, Phoenix, Albany, Buffalo, St. Louis and Columbus, as a vehicle for laughs.
He has served as the station’s assistant news director since 2022 and now will oversee journalism at the Tegna CBS affiliate in Arkansas.
Gray Television Fox affiliate WVUE New Orleans is adding Thanh Truong to its news team. Truong has experience in television news, both as a news anchor and a reporter. “I’m […]
Why Doesn’t YouTube TV Carry C-SPAN?
Tom Wheeler: “Over the past four decades, we have come to take C-SPAN for granted. But this important public service is now threatened by a new technology — online streaming — as consumers increasingly ‘cut the cord’ of their cable subscription.”
Filmmakers are warning that a recent ruling in a copyright suit against Netflix over its Tiger King docuseries could restrict the use of video clips in documentaries, and upset a long-held understanding of what constitutes “fair use.”
KXAS Dallas-Fort Worth and WTVF Nashville have won 2024 Peabody Awards. Given out by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, 34 winners were named. They represent “the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and streaming media” in 2023.
Executives from CBS News & Stations, CBC, Cox Media Group and NBCUniversal Local share experiments in news programming beyond the newscast format including FAST-native explainers, hyperlocal reporting and multiplatform, long-tail shows in this video from TVNewsCheck’s Programming Everywhere conference. Click here to register as a TVN subscriber and get access to all videos from this exclusive event.
NBC and its affiliates have worked out an arrangement that will give affiliates 90-second cut-ins during daytime network coverage of the Paris Olympic games. Affiliates will be able to use the cut-ins to promote their local news in front of Olympic-sized audiences. On some weekdays, the cut-ins will appear during an afternoon break at about 5 p.m. — around the time viewers would normally tune in to early-evening local news programming.
Founded in 1934 by the Press Club of Atlantic City, the National Headliner Awards program is one of the oldest and largest annual contests recognizing journalistic merit in the communications industry.
NBCUniversal and Pluto announced NBCUniversal Local’s 15 NBC and Telemundo local and regional streaming news channels begin launching on Pluto TV this month, beginning today with five channels covering major […]
The local news crisis has been widely chronicled. Why do so many seem unaware? Pictured: Little Rock Police Lt. Steve McClanahan talks to reporters Monday, Aug, 14, 2017, near the scene of the 42nd homicide of the year in Little Rock, Ark. (Kelly P. Kissel/AP)
As news consumption habits become more digital, U.S. adults continue to see value in local outlets.
Wounded and limping, doubting its own future, American journalism seems to be losing a quality that carried it through a century and a half of trials: its swagger. Swagger is the conformity-killing practice of journalism, often done in defiance of authority and custom, to tell a true story in its completeness, no matter whom it might offend. It causes some people to subscribe and others to cancel their subscriptions, and gives journalists the necessary courage and direction to do their best work. Swagger was once journalism’s calling card, but in recent decades it’s been sidelined.