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The article reports that investigative reporting and news literacy of Fairness Doctrine with broadcast journalists Walter Cronkite credibility for polarization perpetuated by rancorous mass and social media. Topics include implication for licensees nestled into the Telecommunications Act which established the Federal Communications Commission; and Congress considered the deleterious effects on children of platforms as Facebook, and Instagram as an evolutionary moment in mass communication.

The author calls on television stations to stop sending multimedia journalists alone on assignment to ensure their safety. Topics covered include the risks facing reporters who serve as one-person crews, a survey which found a decline in public's trust in the local media, and how quality journalism is achieved.

The author calls on news outlets to put an emphasis on field safety when sending reporters or multimedia journalists alone on assignment. Topics covered include the risks facing reporters who serve as one-person crews for breaking news stories, how media organizations, including traditional print publications, have long put female reporters in risky situations without concern for their safety, and women journalists being the likely targets of violence and online harassment.

Reports on the controversy concerning KSDK-TV reporter Mike Owens marriage to elected official Alderman Lyda Krewson. Allegations of a potential conflict of interest; Awards presented to Owens; Complaints against reporters in the country; Controversy concerning a report by Owens which he pointedly and repeatedly connected Saint Louis Comptroller Darlene Green to a criminal case involving alleged voter fraud; Divisive nature of Saint Louis politics and race relations.

The article presents an interview with news anchor Dick Ford in Saint Louis, Missouri regarding his service in news broadcasting. Ford's career revolves around the television industry serving almost forty years in service with three television stations namely KMOX-TV (Channel 4), KSD-TV (Channel 5) and KTVI (Channel 2). When asks about the key differences of media coverage of politicians between the past and at presents, he cites that when city mayor in Saint Louis calls for a news conference, every station attend while in the present, news conference of city mayors is not a big deal and only few stations would cover the event. He comments that the quality of the television news at present are more production oriented and producers and writers lacks training.

The article discusses a study of public relations (PR) professionals on their ethics and morals. The study revealed that PR people are among the most ethical groups subjected to a standardized test of moral development. Lee Wilkins, professor of radio-television journalism at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, finds that PR professionals make reasoned decisions that involve universal principles.

The article focuses on television journalist Vickie Newton. Newton is a co-anchor of the 5 and 10 p.m. local news programs broadcast by television station KMOV-TV in Saint Louis, Missouri. Newton describes how news and public events were important topics for her family as a child in Bearden, Arkansas. This led to a lifelong ambition to become a television journalist.

The article examines a trend in television news broadcasting termed "backpack" journalism. This describes television journalists carrying their own video cameras and operating without either a photographer or editor. The cost cutting practice has been instituted at two Saint Louis, Missouri television stations. Union officials representing television journalists and cameramen express concern that the so-called "one-man bands" could result in a loss of journalism quality as well as costing members' jobs. INSET: The Backpack Story.

The article focuses on television journalists Art Holliday and Jennifer Blome, co-anchors of the morning news program on television station KSDK in Saint Louis, Missouri. The two anchors have broadcast that program since 1988, an almost unheard of tenure in television news broadcasting. both Holliday and Blome credit a personal friendship as the main factor in their success.

The article focuses on network television journalists who spent an early part of their careers on local stations in St. Louis, Missouri. Russ Mitchell, news anchor of the "CBS Early Show", was a news reporter on station KMOV from 1987-1992. NBC News reporter Anne Thompson worked at station KSDK from 1985-1990. ESPN studio host Trey Wingo worked at KSDK from 1991-1997.

The article focuses on television anchors and reporters in the Saint Louis, Missouri area who have left journalism for corporate and non-profit employment. Karen Foss, retired from KSDK-TV Channel 5, was appointed communications director for AmerenUE. Jamie Allman, former KMOV-TV Channel 4 investigative reporter, left television to become the spokesperson for St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke. He left that job to work in radio, where he hosts "Allman in the Morning," a talk show on KFTK. His former job with the Archbishop was taken by Anne Steffens, a former education reporter and weekend anchor on Channel 4.

The author focuses on the career of broadcaster Bryson Rash. Rash was 12 years old when he became the child spokesperson for Buster Brown Shoes on KMOX radio in St. Louis, Missouri. After Rash left St. Louis to join WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio, he was moved by CBS to Washington, D.C. within one month. He was hired by NBC one year later and became an ABC employee when NBC split into two networks. After that, Rash rose quickly to become a network commentator. He became ABC's White House correspondent in 1950; his counterpart was Walter Cronkite of CBS. Rash moved to television and was the only broadcaster to cover the hydrogen bomb test in 1956. He is a member of the National Press Club Hall of Fame.

The article focuses on the television news broadcasting practice known as "backpacking," in which a reporter covers a story carrying and operating their own video camera without a camera man or producer also on the assignment. Almost all Saint Louis, Missouri television stations now mandate backpacking for their reporters in order to cut costs. The practice is also common on foreign news broadcasts by television networks.

This article presents reports of unethical journalistic methods used by KTVI reporter Elliott Davis in St. Louis, Missouri. Lee Pagano, St. Peters, Missouri's mayor, says that Davis has been reporting negative and inaccurate stories about his town. Government officials have complained about Davis in the past, especially when he has conducted ambush interviewing. Particular attention is given to a story on Fox 2 news that questioned why St. Peters did not solicit bids when it sold land that is being used by developers for the Lakeside 370 project.

This article reports from the 2007 St. Louis Media Halls of Fame awards and induction ceremony. Print, radio and television were all celebrated and rewarded. Some of the inductees include Mary Kimbrough, David Lipman and Mike Peters. Keith Gunther was rewarded for his 30 years at Channel 5 in Missouri.

The article focuses on the 2005 Regional Emmy Wards sponsored by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Saint Louis, Missouri. The best anchor slot was appropriately filled by Mandy Murphey of Channel 2. The top television sports reporter went to the deserving Frank Cusumano of Channel 5. Inducted into the Silver Circle, an honor given to outstanding industry types with at least quarter century of experience, were Karen Foss, an anchor on Channel 5; Cheryl McDonald, the general manager and vice president of WDAF-TV in Kansas City; Bill Reed, who served as president of Kansas City Public Television from 1992-2005; Dennis Riggs, former anchor and reporter and now manager of the Higher Education Channel; and retired Tom Martin, a Channel 4 videographer.

Reports on the anchoring made by Dan Rather for CBS Broadcasting Inc.

This article reports that Herb Humphries, known in Saint Louis, Missouri for his dryly humorous reporting on the television station KMOV over two decades, is being inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in late October 2004. The posthumous induction will focus on his work early in his career at two Texas radio stations.

This article comments on some television programs in the U.S. It notes that Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show" agrees with Sinclair Broadcasting that the reading of the names of Americans who have died in Iraq on ABC's "Nightline" was biased against the administration of President George W. Bush.

Comments on developments concerning mass media as of July 2000. Drop in the television ratings of ABC in its coverage of the first Stanley Cup hockey game for the season; Australian television newsreaders' unintentional spilling of personal problems at the end of a commercial break; Synergy in the television broadcast operations of CBS and Viacom.

Comments on confidentiality issues that have been raised in the United States when WIS-TV reporter Heather Hoopes aired a videotape containing incriminating evidence about a local sheriff's department. Federal prosecutors' demand to reveal the source; Statement by Radio-Television News Directors' Association; Complication arising from Hoopes' decision to bring along her federal agent-husband during her visit to her source.

Comments on various developments in television broadcasting in Missouri as of April 1999. Includes the popularity of television channels KSDK, KMOV, KTVI and KDNL; Trial of Channel 5 reporter Mike Owens for misdemeanors; Praise for the March 14, 1996 newscast of Channel 2.

Focuses on the difficulties that television reporters have to go through during snow and ice storms to report live where the news is happening in Saint Louis, Missouri.