Journalism

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.

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.

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 […]

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, 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 […]

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 […]

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.

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.

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.

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 […]

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (AP) — Two Penn State professors have received $300,000 from the National Science Foundation to develop technology that will enable digital devices to weed out fake news. […]

There’s a growing debate over whether local news outlets should keep online comments—and just how to keep such comments civil. Countless newsrooms rely on comments sections and social media to foster community engagement and drive traffic to their sites, but those platforms are too frequently hosts to hate, bigotry, threats and damaging content.

Fox-owned KMSP Minneapolis (DMA 15) will debut a weekday 11 a.m. newscast, Fox 9 News at 11, on Sept. 12. The hour-long newscast will follow the station’s pop culture and entertainment […]