Michael Abramowitz, a former Washington Post journalist who is currently the president of the nonprofit Freedom House, is expected to start in the role this summer.
CBS News and Stations debuts a multi-part investigation called Anything For Love: Inside the Romance Scam Epidemic Sunday, April 21. Airing across CBS News and station programs, Anything For Love runs through Sunday, April 28. The year-long investigation hears from victims, families, dating app executives and government officials across seven states: California, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Texas
Rod Hissong Named News Director At WAND Decatur
Block Communications moves him from its WDRB Louisville, Ky., to oversee journalism at its NBC affiliate in Illinois.
Essence magazine’s corporate parent Sundial Media Group has agreed to buy women’s lifestyle company Refinery29 from Vice Media, the company said Thursday. The deal offers Refinery29 a lifeline after a tumultuous few years under the Vice Media brand.
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The industry’s focus on newsroom culture is critical, but nothing can fundamentally change unless leaders take these active and essential steps.
CBS Stations today unveiled a new California-based investigative initiative, CBS News California Investigates, and appointed longtime journalist Julie Watts as the regional CBS California correspondent.
Gray said the renewal “is the direct result of impressive, double-digit ratings growth in the show’s debut season.” InvestigateTV+ is hosted by Lee Zurik (pictured) and Tisha Powell.
As AI-Created Photorealistic Images Proliferate, Documentary Producers Draw Up Guidelines
On Tuesday, a group of archival producers presented a draft set of best practices for using generative AI tools in Los Angeles, noting a “danger of forever muddying the historical record.” Pictured: In a demonstration of OpenAI’s video tool Sora, this still was created from the prompt, “The camera directly faces colorful buildings in Burano, Italy. An adorable dalmatian looks through a window on a building on the ground floor.” (OpenAI)
The former Scripps exec will be responsible for developing and implementing newsgathering, storytelling and distribution models strategy across all platforms.
Uri Berliner, who has worked at NPR for 25 years, said in an essay last week that the nonprofit had allowed progressive bias to taint its coverage.
Adam Buckman: “Robert MacNeil, who died last week at age 93, may have been the last of his generation of broadcast journalists who set standards for quality and reliability that one could argue have largely disappeared. In an era before 24-hour, all-news, all-blathering cable news, and instant news of 280 characters or less on social media, the MacNeil/Lehrer newscasts stood at the pinnacle of TV news for their ethics, accuracy and credibility.” (Stephen Chernin/AP)
The Real Story Behind NPR’s Current Problems
Alicia Montgomery: Yes, the broadcaster is a mess. But “wokeness” isn’t the issue.