The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Gizmodo Media Group, a division of Univision Communications, has sought to quickly defeat a defamation lawsuit brought over an article published on the sports website Deadspin, saying the complaint is intended to intimidate journalists. WSJ subscribers can read the full story here.
Charisse Gibson Joins WXIX’s ‘Cincinnati Connection’
KFOR, the Tribune NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City, has relaunched with a new tornado resistant studio and will now call itself Oklahoma News 4.
CNN debuted a daily program Monday on Snapchat Shows, a growing roster of short-form video series on the social-media platform. Airing every weekday at 6 p.m. ET, The Update will feature breaking news from the cable network’s reporters exclusive to Snapchat in its signature Shows format. CNN will also offer rolling updates on developing news as part of the program.
Several top editors at the Los Angeles Times were terminated Monday as the paper’s corporate parent moved to install new leadership. Davan Maharaj, the newspaper’s former editor in chief, has been replaced by Jim Kirk, the former top editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. Kirk left the Sun-Times last week to join Tronc, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and several other regional newspapers. Kirk’s title will be interim executive editor, and he will lead the search for a new editor in chief.
Alysha Del Valle Joins KNBC News
NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations KNBC Los Angeles (DMA 2) has added Alysha Del Valle as the station’s morning traffic anchor and reporter on Today in LA. Del Valle will join […]
Exclusives
Diana Alvear New Weekday Evening Anchor At WJZY
Diana Alvear has been named co-anchor of the weekday evening news at Fox-owned WJZY Charlotte, N.C. (DMA 22). She will co-anchor the Fox 46 News at 6 p.m. and Fox […]
At least a dozen employees at KYTV and KSPR in Springfield, Mo., including anchor Jerry Jacob, were laid off Friday morning in what management has called a consolidation of newsrooms.
Social media is arguably the best tool for broadcasters to reach a large audience these days and they all need the help of their staffs and on-air talent to amplify their voice on social media and create compelling content to build the same brand loyalty on social that they built over the airwaves for decades. Just dipping a toe into Twitter or posting plain links to your work on your Facebook Page won’t cut it. With the speed of news at an all-time high and the time allowed to produce it at an all-time low, journalists need to maximize their return-on-effort to make their time spent on social worthwhile — for both themselves and their employer. Here’s how.
Remembering Chris Manson, Sinclair’s News Dir.
Different Stations, Different Markets, Same Anchor
KRIV Anchor Melinda Spaulding Leaves
President Trump blasted the news media ahead of his return to Washington on Sunday after a 17-day working vacation. “Heading back to Washington after working hard and watching some of the worst and most dishonest Fake News reporting I have ever seen!” the president said.
Hearst-owned NBC affiliate WLWT Cincinnati (DMA 36) has added Mollie Lair as anchor/reporter to its News 5 team. She joins WLWT from KFVS Cape Girardeau, Mo., where during her nearly […]
Major TV networks are gearing up to cover Monday’s solar eclipse as if it were a sporting event — the Super Bowl of the scientific world. The first total solar eclipse to cross the United States since 1917 and the first to be visible from the mainland since 1979 is set to begin around 1:15 p.m. ET. The eclipse will be visible for another 90 minutes in varying degrees around the country. Here’s is a list of major networks offering extensive eclipse coverage on Monday
Where Is The Line? Media Forced To Decide
It took the death of a young woman at the hands of one of the neo-Nazis she was protesting to force the ever-expanding media universe to face a question it has been evading for years: Where’s the line? Google, Twitter and the web hosting company GoDaddy appeared to find it this week when they shut down The Daily Stormer, an American Nazi “publication,” after it mocked the peace activist Heather Heyer, who was killed Saturday at a white supremacist demonstration in Charlottesville, Va.
Todd Magel Named KCCI Senior Reporter
Hearst-owned CBS affiliate KCCI Des Moines, Iowa (DMA 69) has promoted Todd Magel to the newly created role of senior reporter. Effective Aug. 28, he will “lead the coverage on […]
WCIU’s ‘The Jam’ Adds DJ Mike Pryor
Weigel Broadcasting’s independent WCIU Chicago (DMA 3) has added Michael “DJ Mike P” Pryor, to its morning show The Jam. He joins hosts Jordan Cornette, Felicia Lawrence and Danielle Robay, […]
On Thursday, June 22, CNN published an article on its website, reporting that a Senate committee was investigating alleged ties between a Russian-government investment fund and people associated with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. By late the next day, its reporting under fire, CNN took some extraordinary steps: It retracted the story and apologized. On June 26, CNN did something even more remarkable: It asked for and accepted the resignations of the three journalists — one a Pulitzer Prize winner, another a Pulitzer finalist — who were principally responsible for reporting and editing the article.
MSNBC ranked as the No. 1 network across all of cable in total viewers for the first time in its history, according to Nielsen data. For Wednesday, Aug. 16, MSNBC averaged 1.52 million viewers for the total day across all of cable, edging out second place Fox News, which averaged 1.5 million. CNN ranked fourth among all cable networks for the day with 1.13 million total viewers.
A roundtable of experts talks about the changing landscape of broadcast production. In part one, we focus solely on IP production and what that means for broadcast.
WGN Anchor Mark Suppelsa Sets Retirement
A memorable photograph, a stunning video, a jaw-dropping news conference and more. The media’s coverage of recent events proved noteworthy itself.
KRIV Adds Traffic Reporter, Lifestyle Correspondent
CoCo Dominguez has been named traffic reporter and lifestyle correspondent at Fox-owned KRIV Houston (DMA 8). Effective Monday, Aug. 21, Dominguez will serve as the traffic reporter for the Fox […]
Nexstar-owned NBC affiliate WDTN Dayton, Ohio (DMA 64) is expanding its weekday local programming with the launch of 2 News First at 4, what it calls “the Miami Valley’s first and only […]
The youth-focused news service becomes the latest addition to Google’s OTT streaming service.
Putting The Nail In ‘Both Sides’ Journalism
With the issue of false equivalency front and center once again, a profound question arises for journalists: What does true fairness look like in covering this president? If objectivity is a “view from nowhere,” it may be out of date. What’s never out of date, though, is clear truth-telling.
U.K. sports publisher GiveMeSport has used its proprietary technology to help grow its Facebook audience to an impressive 25 million followers. Now, it’s integrating artificial intelligence from its new owner, Breaking Data Corp., to give it an advantage over competitors.
