Mass layoffs, closures and reader fatigue are afflicting news organizations as Americans prepare for a consequential election year.
Category: News and News Media
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The Sports Illustrated Cover, a Faded Canvas That Once Defined Sports
It used to be the most coveted real estate in sports journalism. But its power to set the agenda disappeared along with its elite photographers.
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Charles Osgood, Lyrical Newscaster on Radio and TV, Dies at 91
A familiar face on television as the host of “CBS Sunday Morning” from 1994 to 2016, he was also known for his “Osgood File” segments on CBS Radio, often delivered with humor and a rhyme.
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Ruth Ashton Taylor, Early Radio and TV Newswoman, Dies at 101
In the late 1940s, she was the only woman working on radio documentaries for CBS’s Edward R. Murrow. In Los Angeles, she was a pioneering newscaster and anchor.
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Tensions Erupt at Los Angeles Times as Owner Weighs Deep Cuts
The biggest news organization on the West Coast has been roiled by the potential layoffs of roughly 100 newsroom employees.
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Trump Campaign Bars an NBC Reporter From a New Hampshire Event
NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard, who was representing a pool of five major TV networks, said the Trump campaign objected to his presence.
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The Baltimore Sun’s New Owner Has the Newsroom on Edge
The news that David D. Smith, the executive chairman of the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group, had bought The Sun has generated alarm inside and outside the newsroom.
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Inside CNN’s Debate Over Airing Trump’s Iowa Caucus Victory Speech
Tensions over the network’s airing of 10 minutes of the former president’s speech after he won the Iowa caucuses on Monday burst into the open during an internal call.
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Ron DeSantis and Fox News, Old Friends, Hit Turbulence
The Fox News host Laura Ingraham called for the Florida governor to leave the Republican primary, days after he accused the network of protecting Donald Trump.
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Billionaires Wanted to Save the News Industry. They’re Losing a Fortune.
Time magazine, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times — owned by Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong — are still losing money.
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Baltimore Sun Sold to Chairman of Sinclair TV Stations
David D. Smith bought the newspaper and its sister publications in a private deal with Alden Global Capital, their owner since 2021.
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This Again? In Frozen Iowa, the Press Corps Ponders a Slog of a Campaign.
Snowstorms, a thinning field of candidates and Donald Trump’s polling lead contributed to a smaller media turnout for the nation’s first caucus.