’60 Minutes’ Lands Sit-Down With Bannon

Steve Bannon, the ousted White House strategist, sat for an interview with CBS News’ Charlie Rose on Wednesday afternoon in Washington. The full interview will air Sunday on 60 Minutes with portions of it set to run Thursday on CBS This Morning. 

DMA 41: OKLAHOMA CITY

KOCO Set Goes Big With ‘Diagrid’ Pattern

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Again, Local TV Delivers During A Crisis

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DMA 18: ORLANDO, FL

WKMG, WESH Put Opioid Crisis In Spotlight

DMA 9

WCVB Boston Examines Opioid Crisis

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Newsy Spending $23M To Get Into Cable

Scripps’ millennial-targeted OTT news network expects to be available in about 40 million cable homes by the end of next year after purchasing carriage contracts from the Retirement Living Television cable network for up to $23 million.

Retracted Story Leaves CNN Team Bruised

Created with much fanfare, CNN’s investigative unit was reshaped and its focus narrowed in the wake of a story that led to a retraction and an apology.

Global News Adding Annova’s Newsroom System

Canadian media content company Corus Entertainment is adding newsgathering system OpenMedia to its Global News operations across the country. OpenMedia, the flagship software from Munich-based Annova Systems with more than […]

Pilot Sponsors Grady Mobile News Lab

NAB’s Pilot innovation initiative will sponsor the Mobile News Lab project at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication during fall 2017. The sponsorship will provide the lab with […]

Newsy, Scripps DC Bureau Launch ‘Getting A Fix’

Newsy, the next-generation national news network, and the Scripps Washington Bureau have launched Getting a Fix, a new series focused on their joint investigation into the opioid crisis. The series […]

Press Groups Blast NRA Over Journo Threat

A trade group that represents The New York Times, the Associated Press and other major publishers is calling out the NRA, accusing the gun rights group of crossing a line and threatening journalists.

Newsy, Scripps Launch ‘Getting A Fix’

The series presents an on-the-ground look at solutions to the devastating opioid epidemic in the United States. Newsy and the Scripps Washington Bureau investigative team research the emergence of synthetic opioids, like fentanyl and carfentanil, while providing an in-depth look at who is trying to solve the crisis and how.

Bianna Golodryga New CBS News Correspondent

‘Frontline’ to Launch ‘The Frontline Dispatch’ Podcast

App Ranks 14,000 Local Reporters, Anchors

Once per hour, the free Social Rankings mobile app from SND updates to offer a leaderboard-style display of local TV reporters and anchors by market. The talent is ranked by how much engagement their Facebook posts received in the past 24 hours. The app also shows the total engagement, total number of posts and average per-post engagement stats for each reporter and anchor by market.

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WAGA Millions Ahead In Atlanta Social Media

WAGA, the Fox O&O in Atlanta, leads all media outlets in Atlanta by about 8 million social media actions over the last six months according to data from audience insight firm Shareablee. WAGA has almost 22 million actions on social, 41% of the total engagement generated by the DMA (No. 10), with more than 53.8 million social actions. WAGA is also ahead in actions per post with 1,724.

COMMENTARY BY W. JOSEPH CAMPBELL

How The Media Got Hurricane Harvey Right

Twelve years ago, headlines across the United States told of chaos and anarchy that supposedly was sweeping New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’s devastating landfall. The horror and mayhem that news organizations so widely reported 12 years ago proved highly exaggerated. It is useful now to recall the erroneous and exaggerated coverage of Katrina’s aftermath because the destructive sweep of Hurricane Harvey in Southeast Texas at the end of last month gave rise to little such egregious misreporting and produced few if any examples of the media having “rioted” in their storm coverage. For news organizations, Harvey was no Katrina.

DMA 8

KHOU Houston Begins Rebuilding After Harvey

DMA 36: CINCINNATI, OH

Traffic Reporter Denise Johnson Leaves WXIX

Ray Lewis Joins Showtime’s ‘Inside The NFL’

NEW YORK (AP) — Football has been Ray Lewis’ passion since he was a child. One of his lasting memories is watching “Inside The NFL” when it was hosted by […]

Clayton Morris Leaving Fox News

COMMENTARY BY MARK EFFRON

What I’ll Tell My Journalism Students

It’s the time of year when university campuses around the country start to shake off the summer slow-mo. As the first day of classes approaches, I’ve been thinking about what I plan on saying to my journalism students about this extraordinary period in our country’s life, and how that impacts their future as journalists.

JESSELL AT LARGE

In Bad Times, Local TV Again Proves Itself

Local TV news has many critics, myself among them, but what’s undeniable is the irreplaceable role it plays when disasters strike as one did in Houston this week. The internet may have revolutionized media over the past two decades, but it has yet to produce the professional, well-equipped local newsgathering operations that are at the core of local TV broadcasting.

DMA 15: MINNEAPOLIS

WCCO Fires News Director Mike Caputa

WCCO news director Mike Caputa was fired a week ago after six years of leading the CBS O&O’s newsroom. “They decided to make a change,” Caputa said Wednesday.

Glenn Beck Makes Big Cuts At The Blaze

DMA 53: BUFFALO, NY

WKBW’s Liz Lewin Moves To Weekend Anchor

DMA 31: SAN ANTONIO, TX

KSAT Anchor Gets Own Primetime Show

DMA 58

Former Tulsa Meteorologist Now On KTUL

FBN Reporter, Reporting On Harvey, Sees Daughter

DMA 66: WICHITA-HUTCHINSON, KS

KSNW Names Jeff Herndon Asst. News Director

Nexstar’s NBC affiliate KSNW Wichita, Kan. (DMA 66), today named Jeff Herndon assistant news director of the station’s broadcast and digital operations. His appointment is effective mid-September and he will report […]