CBS CBS News London Bureau Cuts Staff By Chris Ariens on Sep. 30, 2010 - 3:44 PM In another example of international downsizing by American networks, TVNewser has learned CBS News is letting go four longtime camera/sound crews from the London bureau. CBS News EVP Paul Friedman made the trip to London earlier t ...
People CBS, NPR and CNN Newsman Daniel Schorr Dies at 93 By Alex Weprin on Jul. 23, 2010 - 1:00 PM NPR newsman and former CBS and CNN correspondent Daniel Schorr died this morning at the age of 93. While Schorr was most recently a senior news analyst for NPR, he spent 23 years at CBS News from 1953-1976, where he was a protege ...
Awards Judy Woodruff Wins Lifetime Achievement Award By Alissa Krinsky on Apr. 14, 2010 - 12:37 PM Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication has announced that PBS’s Judy Woodruff is the 2010 Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award winner in Television. NPR’s Deborah Amos has ...
Awards Steve Kroft To Receive Paul White Award By Alissa Krinsky on Nov. 9, 2009 - 1:42 PM CBS’s Steve Kroft has been named the 2010 Paul White Award winner by The Radio Television Digital News Association (formerly The Radio and Television News Directors Association). Kroft will receive the award April 12 in Las ...
CNN Bill Maher Responds to Sean Hannity By SteveK on May. 26, 2009 - 3:00 PM You may have been memorializing on Sunday (or just on the beach) so here’s your Reliable Sources update: Howard Kurtz led a panel discussion on cable news’s prime time partisanship. “President Obama is routinely ...
Awards Thomas, Schieffer Honored with Murrow Award By Chris Ariens on Mar. 15, 2009 - 8:43 AM Washington, D.C. veteran reporters Helen Thomas and Bob Schieffer have been named recipients of the 2009 Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award. Thomas remains on the beat at the White House covering her 10th presidential adm ...
CBS Who’s Missing From Rooney’s List? By SteveK on Nov. 24, 2008 - 2:58 PM TV Week’s Michele Greppi writes in this week’s “The Insider” about a tvnewser noticeably absent in Andy Rooney’s essay last Sunday on 60 Minutes. When Rooney gave his list of people who made TV news & ...
CNN “He’s Young and Smart and Hot, With a Jones For Dangerous Assignments” By SteveK on Oct. 24, 2008 - 11:20 AM CNN anchor Anderson Cooper is profiled in a lengthy, wide-ranging profile in this month’s Elle Magazine by Lisa DePaulo. The interview touches on many areas of Cooper’s life and his reporting at CNN, and how he balance ...
TV Biz The Original Media Critic By Chris Ariens on Oct. 18, 2008 - 2:00 PM Long before there were newspaper critics or even blogs, including this one, to keep a critical eye on the media, there was Don Hollenbeck. In 1947 Hollenbeck began anchoring “CBS Views the Press.” The broadcast was the ...