View Post Global News | TV Biz Who’s Going to Rome to Cover the Pope? By Chris Ariens on Feb. 11, 2013 - 2:36 PM Fox News’s Shepard Smith will soon be on his way to Rome, reporting from the Vatican on the resignation of Benedict XVI and upcoming Conclave and election. Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent Greg Palkot will be there tomor ...
View Post ABC | TV Biz Sam Donaldson Arrested For DUI By Alex Weprin on Dec. 19, 2012 - 3:31 PM Former ABC News anchor Sam Donaldson was arrested for driving under the influence earlier this month. TMZ first reported the news this afternoon. Donaldson was pulled over December 1st in Delaware and failed a field sobriety tes ...
View Post Events | Politics TVNewsers Meet in Boston to Remember Tip O’Neill By Alissa Krinsky on Dec. 10, 2012 - 2:07 PM , TVNewser was in Boston this weekend as several TV news anchors and contributors took a trip down memory lane. They gathered at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library for a panel discussion on the life of Tip O’Neill, the ...
ABC | NBC | Politics Barbara Walters Makes Return to NBC By Chris Ariens on Nov. 7, 2012 - 1:18 AM Not sure who had the remote control for those huge monitors at the Romney campaign site in Boston — the ones that kept changing all night. But it made for fun viewing for us. During an ABC liveshot with David Muir, Fox News ...
ABC | CBS | CNN | Fox News | MSNBC | NBC | PBS TVNewser’s 2012 Guide To Graduation Speakers By Alissa Krinsky on May. 4, 2012 - 7:02 AM ‘Tis commencement season, and so without further ado, we present TVNewser’s fifth annual list of who’s-speaking-where-and-when at America’s colleges and universities (in alphabetical order): ABC/CNN’s Chri ...
Politics Invaluable Resource, Sleep Aid. How C-SPAN Stands the Test of Time By Gail Shister on Mar. 26, 2012 - 7:00 AM If founder Brian Lamb had to do it over again, C-SPAN wouldn’t be called C-SPAN. “It’s not the greatest name around,” says Lamb, 70, who steps down Sunday as CEO. “Three people know what it stands for. I don’t even kno ...
TV Biz The Ticker: Wheelock, Crowley, Anderson… By Merrill Knox on Feb. 12, 2012 - 1:12 PM Former ABC Newser Bob Wheelock has joined Al Jazeera English as executive producer for the Americas. Wheelock, who was senior producer of ABC’s special events unit, has also been a senior producer, broadcast producer and Lon ...
ABC | Awards Christiane Amanpour Accepts ASU’s Cronkite Award By Merrill Knox on Nov. 17, 2011 - 8:09 PM ABC’s Christiane Amanpour was presented with Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism this afternoon. In her acceptance speech, Amanpour, the host of ABC’s “This Week,&# ...
ABC | NBC Sam Donaldson on Co-Anchor ‘Jealousies’ and Why ‘The News Business Has Moved On’ By Gail Shister on Oct. 31, 2011 - 9:29 AM There is no trick involved in tonight’s Halloween treat for Boomer news junkies — Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts really are co-anchors again. The hosts of ABC’s ‘This Week’ from 1996 to ’02, Donaldson and Robe ...
TV Biz Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts and John Palmer to Host New Political Program… On RLTV By Alex Weprin on Oct. 26, 2011 - 10:45 AM RLTV (formerly Retirement Living TV) has picked up a political news and commentary program–“Primary Issues”– to be hosted by former ABC News journalists Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts, as well as former NB ...