Journalism

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.

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.

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.