Awards Media Turns a Reflective Eye Inward at Mirror Awards By Merrill Knox on Jun. 13, 2012 - 6:03 PM Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Communications held its sixth annual Mirror Awards ceremony at the Plaza Hotel this afternoon, honoring the year’s best media reporting. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper emceed t ...
Events A Kiss Before Flying. Jane Velez-Mitchell Has No ‘Issues’ at NLGJA Fundraiser By Chris Ariens on Mar. 30, 2012 - 3:59 PM Actual news got in the way of last night’s annual New York fundraiser for the journalism group NLGJA. Soledad O’Brien, who was to co-host with her HLN colleague Jane Velez-Mitchell, couldn’t as she moderated CNN& ...
NBC ‘Early Today’ Celebrates 8 Years with 9 Originals By Chris Ariens on Jan. 5, 2012 - 4:53 PM “Early Today,” which airs before the early morning news on NBC affiliates, is celebrating 8 years and more than 2,000 shows today. Nine staffers, including EP Andy Jones, have been with the show the entire time — ...
TV Biz 2011 TVNewser Challenge: The Results By Chris Ariens on Dec. 29, 2011 - 3:29 PM Time for the results of the TVNewser Challenge. One year ago, we asked, and you answered, making predictions for the Year in TV News. And just to let you, we’ll publish our 2012 TVNewser Challenge tomorrow afternoon. Where w ...
MSNBC ‘Now With Alex Wagner’ Debuts Monday on MSNBC By Merrill Knox on Nov. 11, 2011 - 12:51 PM “Now with Alex Wagner,” the newest addition to the MSNBC daytime lineup, will debut on Monday, the network announced today. Wagner’s show will replace the 12pmET hour of “MSNBC Live” that has rotated ...
MSNBC | Revolving Door Political Analyst Alex Wagner to Host New NoonET Show on MSNBC By Alex Weprin on Oct. 20, 2011 - 5:57 PM MSNBC political analyst Alex Wagner is getting her own show, TVNewser has learned. At some point in the next few months, the channel will debut a new NoonET program hosted by Wagner, who was most recently with the Huffington Post, ...
CNN TV, Wall Street Bigwigs Fete Erin Burnett at CNN Launch Party By Alex Weprin on Sep. 28, 2011 - 4:46 PM Last night CNN feted its newest anchor, Erin Burnett, at Robert restaurant at The Museum of Arts and Design in Columbus Circle, just a few hundred feet from CNN’s NYC headquarters. Overlooking Columbus Circle and the southwe ...
MSNBC Contessa Brewer: ‘This is a great time in my life to make some changes’ By Chris Ariens on Aug. 26, 2011 - 12:49 PM As we reported yesterday, this is Contessa Brewer’s final day anchoring on MSNBC. A change that — after 8 years at the NBC cable network — Brewer is looking forward to. “This is a great time in my life to m ...
MSNBC | Revolving Door Contessa Brewer Leaving Daily Anchoring at MSNBC By Chris Ariens on Aug. 25, 2011 - 1:00 PM Contessa Brewer, who has been a fixture on MSNBC since 2003, will no longer be an anchor on the network, TVNewser has learned. For the last year-and-a-half Brewer has anchored the NoonET hour on MSNBC as well as hosting the weeken ...
TV Biz Testimony Temporarily Suspended After Rupert Murdoch Accosted By Alex Weprin on Jul. 19, 2011 - 12:11 PM Parliament has temporarily suspended the testimony of Rupert and James Murdoch after a man appeared to attack the elder Murdoch with what Reuters describes as a plate with foam on it. All three cable news channels cut away from th ...