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The announcement came as news organizations were preparing to end a second day of waiting out jury deliberations with no conclusion. They quickly scrambled when Judge Juan Merchan, instead of saying court was dismissed until Friday, said there was a verdict that would be announced in a half hour. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool Photo via AP)
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Jury deliberation meant tense, ultimately boring hours of waiting for lawyers, journalists and others at the Manhattan courtroom where former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial is being held. It’s the same for TV networks covering the case — except they have hours of time to fill for viewers. Rather than switch to something else, they have largely stuck close to the courthouse. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP)
Vizrt, a provider of real-time graphics and live production solutions for content creators, said that its flagship newsroom HTML-based templated graphics system, Viz Pilot Edge, now integrates with Dalet Galaxy […]
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Kennedy alleges the requirements to participate in the June 27 debate were designed to ensure only Biden and Trump would qualify and Kennedy claims he is being held to a higher standard. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)
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The new partnership delivers free 24/7 local news, entertainment and Spanish-language weather programming to Amazon Fire TV and Echo Show devices.
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Scripps taps the former Spectrum News 1 newsroom leader to oversee daily operations as well as news at the ABC affiliates in Texas.
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Newly-installed Daily Beast boss Joanna Coles is anxious to hire boldface names like ousted CNN host Brian Stelter — as she sharpens the ax to slash more than a third of the staff. Coles — who was brought in by media mogul Barry Diller along with Disney bigwig Ben Sherwood last month to resuscitate the floundering news site, sources close to the situation said on Tuesday.
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Jeffrey M. McCall: Solid journalism is, indeed, essential to the functioning of the nation. The constitutional framers knew that well, but they also knew that journalism’s function of watchdogging the government had to be done with independence, completely separate from government strings, financial or otherwise.
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He previously served as unscripted portfolio director at BBC Studios and has held the Fremantle role on an interim basis since January.
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Tom Wills retires from WJXT Jacksonville, Fla., after 49 years. Don Alhart says goodbye to WHAM Rochester, N.Y., after coming onboard in 1966.