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Byline: Simon Dumenco A kidnapper-rapist sicko has me thinking lately about the literal value of news. Yeah, I'm talking about the shocking story of Phillip Garrido, the California nutcase who [...]

By Michael Malone News-hungry Miss. capital a 'jewel' Jackson may be the No. 90 DMA, but general managers here say it plays larger than that number would indicate. Local news [...]

By Marisa Guthrie Fox News Channel star likes the man but takes issue with his policies March 2009 marks The O'Reilly Factor 's 100th consecutive month as the top-rated cable [...]

By Michael Malone 'Content centers' to replace traditional newsrooms, news channel to launch NBC Universal is overhauling its operations to recast its stations as 24/7, multi-platform news outlets, not simply [...]

By Michael Malone User-generated content platform gives stations hundreds of 'stringers' YouNewsTV, the service that allows would-be citizen journalists to post video on station Websites, recently hit a milestone: WLNE [...]

In a front page story in The Washington Post on Sunday, reporters Dana Priest and Anne Hull exposed dreadful conditions at the supposed 'crown jewel of military medicine'-- Walter Reed [...]

By J. Max Robins There has been speculation for months about MSNBC's future as a 24-hour cable news channel--or, maybe more to the point, its lack thereof. But one indication [...]

Insider always likes to see the cause of financial planning furthered. So it was with some joy that Campbell Edgar of Bloomsbury Financial Planning was spotted on breakfast television news [...]

By George Winslow Channels Expand Base Of Homes, Platforms It has been nearly 20 years since News 12 went on the air in 700,000 Cablevision Systems Corp. homes on Long [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK An impending report by 60 Minutes on problems in the for-profit higher-education industry has the Career College Association scurrying to mount a pre-emptive public-relations campaign, according to [...]

Cable news outlets are more open to pitches with the election over, but PR pros must consider timing and audience demographics to solidify clients' prospects. Many Americans are currently going [...]

ITV has admitted that the timing of its News at Ten has been a failure and the company is to seek a permanent 10.30pm slot for its main bulletin. Viewers [...]

THE FUTURE OF NEWS Balancing what the public wants to know and what it needs While ABC's Ted Koppel remains in place, for a while, disquiet at TV news divisions [...]

SYDNEY -- The axing of local news services in regional and rural Australia has prompted an Australian Broadcasting Authority investigation into the adequacy of the provisions for such services. The [...]

Your company's Web site architects, like everyone else in your IT organization, are subject to payback or more stringent ROI analyses. But site infrastructure and the costs associated with downtime […]

Under intense pressure from the rest of the media, we are reluctantly ending our moratorium on critiquing TV-news coverage of the Chandra Levy affair. Here goes. It doesn't take a [...]

About 850,000 Charter Communications subscribers will lose ESPNews in an escalation of the companies' dispute over streaming of the network. A month ago, ESPN told Charter to take the network [...]

Add video-streaming rights to the list of issues igniting tensions between cable operators and cable networks. Charter Communications Inc.'s decision to break off negotiations with ESPN for distribution of ESPNews [...]

While little has changed in the basic recipe for the success of a news operation, newsrooms are increasingly dependent upon technology to help people work smarter and to be more [...]

Newsday and Long Island's News 12 last week began airing collaborative segments covering local business and high school sports. Tribune Co.'s Newsday, Long Island's daily newspaper with a total circulation [...]

Earthquake is reality TV (and radio) Seattle style Seattle Mayor Paul Schell and Microsoft mogul Bill Gates were about to discover what real power is. Schell and Gates were separately, [...]

WWJ-TV Detroit, which for years stood out among CBS stations as the only one without a newscast, will finally be getting the news. An 11 p.m. program from Viacom-owned sister [...]

Cable networks funnel fresh material for new year It's once again time for cable networks to squeeze in premieres before broadcast goes into February-sweeps mode. As usual, they cover the [...]

There they are. Twenty-five BOCES students between the ages of 15 and 19 waiting in a classroom to talk about local TV news. Like most teen-aged students, they look like [...]

INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-(C)1995-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD YLE, the Finnish broadcasting corporation, has made television news available online. Viewers will be able to see news from Aamu-TV or TV-Uutiset on weekdays […]

Tribune Broadcasting's WPIX(TV) New York will introduce its WB 11 Morning News in June. Featured personalities will be Lynne White, formerly of WNYW(TV) New York's Good Day New York; WPIX [...]

New service allows TV stations to forecast weather for small areas within their markets Weather Services International (WSI) is going to the Radio-Television News Directors Association convention in Charlotte, N.C., [...]

Five years ago, Charlotte, N.C., Fox affiliate WCCB-TV decided it needed to compete in the local news race, but the station did not have the resources to launch and produce [...]

Jim Cooper covers cable television from Mediaweek's New York office. ROGER AILES IS A MAN AT WAR. ON A RECENT SPRING MORNING, AS THE BANK OF TELEVISION MONITORS IN HIS [...]

ISVN MIAMI grew its morning news block over time, adding a 5:30 a.m. weekday newscast in 1998, then moving the start time to 5 a.m. in September 2001, to make [...]

I CONFESS TO HAVING A SOFT SPOT FOR Dan Rather, especially given the unceremonious sendoff he received last week by CBS News. After Rather spent 44 years gathering and delivering [...]

Viewer interest in the Iraq war may diminish following Baghdad's fall last week, but that's not stopping some of the all-news networks from bulking up their resources there. Meanwhile, back [...]

On September 11, 2001, most of the U.S. and the world were glued to television news broadcasts. Within minutes of the first plane crash, viewers saw events happen live. One […]

The Web Doctor, a new syndicated news segment that provides Internet tips to those in need of a computer tutor, was launched nationwide on January 29th when it was broadcast [...]