CBS News Bringing Misinformation Unit To TV With Hiring Of EP Melissa Mahtani
Mahtani, a CNN veteran, will be tasked with figuring out how to present CBS News Confirmed investigations for a TV audience.
Bob Woodruff Foundation: Where Billionaires, Celebrities And The NFL Go To Support Vets
When billionaire philanthropists, celebrities, global embassies, and the National Football League want to lend a helping hand to American …
Richard Leibner Dies: Agent For Top News Anchors Was 85
Richard Leibner, a pioneering talent agent who represented such notable broadcast news journalists as Dan Rather, Diane Sawyer, Mike …
TV Networks To Urge Biden And Trump To Debate, Wading Into A Fraught Topic
In an unusual move, the five major broadcast and cable news networks have prepared a joint open letter that urges President Biden and former …
McMahon Details Community Journalism Expansion At CBS News And Stations
CBS News and Stations is making moves to better unify CBS News, its owned stations and CBS Media Ventures, and better cover breaking news, …
CBS News and Stations Shares Plans For New Weather Unit
CBS News and Stations is launching a weather unit that it hopes will enhance coverage of critical weather stories at both its owned stations …
Scripps News Debuts Lineup Of New Programs
Scripps News, the national network owned by The E.W. Scripps Co., will debut five new programs this month, “each providing independent, …
New Effort To ‘Inoculate’ U.S. Voters Against AI Misinformation
A bipartisan coalition with support from Hollywood power players and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Archewell Foundation is working to …
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include 13 openings in news, sales, digital and engineering.
Local TV’s Hiring Crisis Has A Solution
Local TV can still attract a truly talented younger generation of workers. But it will need to excite them with the prospect of inventing a …
Media Plan Total Coverage Of Upcoming Eclipse
As you may have heard, there’s a solar eclipse going on Monday, April 8, and the news networks are all over the uncommon event. The …
WBKB Alpena Expands Local Newscasts, Partners With UpNorthLive News
Morgan Murphy Media’s WBKB Alpena, Mich., will expand its local news coverage through a partnership with UpNorthLive news and Sinclair’s …
Local Television Prepares For Total Solar Eclipse Coverage
Many of the reporters, news photogs and newsroom personnel covering the Great American Eclipse in August 2017 are still alive and likely …
For TV News, Sacred Cows Are A Fatal Impediment To Change
If local TV journalism is to have a future, its leaders need to assess the true value of everything it holds sacred and empower the change …
Vice TV Chief Morgan Hertzan Sets Exit From Company
Vice Television is going through a shuffle at the top, with head exec Morgan Hertzan set to exit next week and Pete Gaffney replacing him on …
Gray Names Peter Zampa Senior National Correspondent
Gray Television today promoted Peter Zampa to senior national correspondent for the Gray Television Washington News Bureau. In his new role, …
NFL Network Continues Paring Down As Stark, Siciliano, Palmer, Selva Out
The trimming at NFL Network continues as on-air personalities Melissa Stark, Andrew Siciliano, James Palmer and Will Selva are all out, …
Jonathan Greenberger To Exit As ABC News D.C. Bureau Chief For Role At Politico
Jonathan Greenberger is leaving ABC News, where he has been Washington bureau chief, for a new job as executive vice president of Politico. …
Local News Close-Up: Smallest-State Stations Think Big
Providence, R.I., residents enjoy access to Boston and New York, while the market offers its own unique aspects.
Fox News Tops Q1 And March Ratings, MSNBC And CNN Show Biggest Growth Vs. 2023
Fox News topped its rivals in the March and first-quarter 2024 ratings by a wide margin, but MSNBC and CNN showed the biggest growth versus …
NAB Show Offers An Expansive Gen AI Primer
One look at the schedule for the 2024 NAB Show and you might be convinced that artificial intelligence (AI) offers the solution for all that …
Gray To Provide Research And Consulting Services To CBS O&Os
CBS has retained Gray Television’s in-house news research and consulting group, Strategic Insights & Activation Team, to provider it …
Transparent Vice
Vice was once promised to become the brash young voice of news. But wild expenses, shady deals, and greed turned it into “a fucking clown …
Meteorologist-Reporter Fred Hunter To Retire From WBRC
WBRC Birmingham, Ala. meteorologist-reporter Fred Hunter is stepping away from the studio after 27 years of forecasting and delivering …
Kansas Paper And Its Publisher Are Suing Over Police Raids. They Say Damages Exceed $10M
The Marion County Record’s parent company and Eric Meyer, its editor and publisher, accuses the city of Marion, the Marion County Commission …
KCTV Kansas City Adds Melissa Meeder As Afternoon Meteorologist
Gray Television CBS affiliate KCTV Kansas City is adding to its growing weather team, welcoming Melissa Meeder to the First Warn 5 Weather …
Sinclair Names Matthew Galka National Correspondent, Washington Bureau
Sinclair Broadcast Group today announced that Matthew Galka will join the company’s Washington, D.C., Bureau as a national correspondent. …
Telemundo’s KTAZ & KHRR Add Anchor, MMJs
KTAZ Phoenix and KHRR Tucson, Ariz., part of NBCUniversal Local’s Telemundo Station Group, today appointed Gilberto Dorrego lead anchor …
Corporate Polish Meets Partisan Reality For NBC’s News Chief
Cesar Conde, a leader with an MBA but a limited journalism background, is facing the toughest scrutiny of his career.