KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV, the CBS owned-and-operated stations in Los Angeles, have been rebranded under the name “CBS Los Angeles” and launched a new Web site that, similar to WCBS-TV in New York, also incorporates the station’s sister radio properties.
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Comparing differing approaches to stories can be instructive in identifying what viewers rightly resent about TV news, and what they should appreciate more. Today's instructors: KTNV-TV, Channel 13 and KLAS-TV, Channel 8. Today's topic: last week's reporting on diminishing Lake Mead water levels.
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The Deseret News has announced workforce reductions and unveiled a plan to refocus the quality and reach of its product.
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Jeff Jeffers had to be hospitalized over the weekend. He is recuperating tonight and will be off the air for awhile while he recovers.
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Longtime CBS News broadcaster Dan Rather came to The Poynter Institute this week to talk about what it was like to cover some of the world's biggest stories throughout the past half-century.
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In social media, it rarely matters whether you're loved or hated. In the old theatrical adage, if you're entertaining, it means "bums on seats."
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Employees at Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, MD are now safe from the gunman that terrorized employees Wednesday. But the drama continued to unfold on television as NBC News revealed that one of its producers had actually been on the phone with Lee during the standoff.
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The all-sports cable TV network has plunged into local coverage online, but the going may be tougher than it imagined.
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Associated Press Senior Managing Editor Michael Oreskes has announced a new set of guidelines for credit and attribution to the AP staff.
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The news broke around 1 p.m. with a few sketchy details. Gunman. Shots. Hostages. Discovery building.
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KOLD-TV, the Tucson, Ariz. CBS affiliate, has launched a new look in High Definition.
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It wasn't a perfect newscast. But there they were Wednesday night — iconic Chicago news anchors Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson reunited and reporting for duty once again as co-anchors of WBBM-Channel 2's 6 p.m. newscast.
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With a new round of layoffs expected this fall, CBS News is being trimmed to the bone. Rebecca Dana on the dramatic drop in ratings, strange BlackBerry blackouts, and eager suitors for anchor Katie Couric.
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WFXT-TV (Channel 25) said yesterday that it is adding a 4:30 a.m. newscast, beginning Sept. 20, making it the fourth local TV station to do so.
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The suspect in the strangulation death of NBC Action News employee Nick Dutcher made his first court appearance Monday morning.
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Last season, the big battle in television was fought over late night. This season, the battleground is shaping up to be the early morning. Very early.
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The step aims to remove any conflicts of interest. The panel is composed of four board members who joined the company during or after its leveraged buyout in 2007.
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News Corp.'s latest securities filing spells out the financial arrangements between the media conglomerate Murdoch controls and of his family members for the company's fiscal year ended June 30.
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Watching the debut of WBBM-Channel 2’s latest morning newscast Monday, I wondered why news anchor Steve Bartelstein kept making references to his mother.
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In August, CNN topped MSNBC during the daytime (9am-5pm) in both total viewers and the key demo 25-54 and in total day (6am-6am) among total viewer
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