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.
ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN all face questions about their future, just as one of the toughest journalistic assignments looms.
TV news is shrinking. Does ABC News need its own commanding officer when it’s being made part of a different army?
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.
Tennis Channel and commentator Brett Haber have agreed to a contract extension that will keep one of the network’s most prominent faces on air through 2028. Haber, who first appeared on […]
KDEN Denver (Telemundo Colorado), part of NBCUniversal Local’s Telemundo Station Group, today said that award-winning journalist Ana Guerra is joining the station as news anchor. In her new role, she will co-anchor Noticias Telemundo […]
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.
Tegna ABC affiliate WOI Des Moines, Iowa (“Local 5”) will add meteorologist Bree Sullivan to the Local 5 Weather team on May 6, preparing central Iowans for their day on […]