Hunter Biden is threatening to sue Fox News for defamation, exploitation of his image and publication of hacked photographs, according to a letter obtained by Axios that was sent to the news channel last week. It’s the latest salvo in the president’s son’s more aggressive legal and press strategy over the past year amid criminal charges and tabloid coverage, and first big move after navigating the impeachment inquiry into his father.
Kevin Curran: Today’s journalism students are tethered to their phones for information. Their professors and the broadcasters who would hire them need to work together to bridge a widening chasm.
Blaise Labbe will be inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame. Labbe is a group news director for Sinclair Broadcast Group and oversees the news operations in 12 Sinclair […]
The veteran streaming and advertising exec will lead the company’s digital go-to-market strategy at Scripps Sports, Ion, Scripps News and local news.
223 Local Now FAST channels offering local news, weather and entertainment will be available to owners of LG Smart TVs.
New Jobs Posted To TVNewsCheck
New jobs posted to TVNewsCheck’s Media Job Center include an opening for a digital platform specialist. Other existing job openings include ones for an account executive, executive producer, meteorologist, weekend anchor, sales manager, senior newscast producer, digital video producer and reporter.
Financial Times, OpenAI Sign Content Licensing Partnership
How AI Can Save Journalism
Cynthia Lieberman: In the right hands and with thoughtful application, artificial intelligence has the potential to save and revitalize authentic journalism by empowering real reporters and producers to generate more and better stories.
ABC owned WPVI Philadelphia weekend sports anchor Jamie Apody says she will leave her on-air role at 6abc Action News. She said: “I am thankful to so many sports fans […]
In a rare development, two local news organizations in Colorado Springs — the Gazette daily newspaper and ABC affiliate KRDO — have ripped each other over the way they are covering something that has been central to the city’s identity for nearly half a century.
This Sunday, April 28, starting at 10 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. PT, Telemundo Station Group, which consists of 30 stations in the U.S., will livestream the second Mexican presidential debate […]
Telemundo’s KTLM McAllen, Texas, promoted Sarah Garcia to news anchor for Noticias Telemundo 40 on weekends at 5 and 10 p.m. She will debut in her new role on Saturday, April 27, alongside weather […]
Poppy Harlow, who has been with CNN since 2008, is exiting the network. Harlow announced her decision in a memo to colleagues. She was offered a new role following the cancellation of CNN This Morning, but instead decided to leave, the network confirmed.
The Los Angeles Times newsroom continues to feel the invisible hand of owner Patrick Soon-Shiong in coverage of his pharma research, home page choices and in pushing for livestream video.
The former CBS Evening News anchor has not appeared on CBS since he left the network in 2006, but will be the subject of a CBS Sunday Morning profile this weekend.
Whistleblowing isn’t unique to any industry. Yet the contrary outlook baked into many journalists — which can be a central part of their jobs — and generational changes in how many view activism have combined to make it probable these sort of incidents will continue.
Local TV News’ Recruitment Problem Has A Solution
Across the country, open positions at TV newsrooms stay vacant or draw a drizzle of poorly equipped, unimaginative applicants. Changes at journalism schools and compensation, along with reframing how we think of applicants, could be among things to change that.
The assistant news director at WXIA Atlanta will be recognized at RTDNA24 in Milwaukee, June 12-14.
Advocating for her press corps colleagues has become a second full-time job for NBC News’ senior White House correspondent.
The parent company for The Enquirer, the tabloid now famous for its ties to former President Donald Trump, has tried repeatedly to sell the publication. It hasn’t been easy. (Mary Altaffer/AP)