Media News

Friday, 3/19/2010

ABC Snags Christiane Amanpour From CNN

ABC has snagged CNN's chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour, to take over as anchor of its Sunday Beltway show, "This Week." She's replacing George Stephanopoulos, who left the show to take Diane Sawyer's place at "Good Morning America," after Sawyer took over as anchor of ABC's evening newscast, when Charlie Gibson decided to retire.

Wednesday, 3/17/2010

Rather: Media Need a 'Spine Transplant'

Veteran newsman Dan Rather said Edward R. Murrow would be “appalled” at today’s American press, where journalists too often are lapdogs to power, rather than watchdogs and corporate-owned news outlets are pouring resources into celebrity and sensationalism instead of investigative work.

Monday, 3/15/2010

Traditional Media in Decline

The Pew Research Center's annual Project for Excellence in Journalism "State of the Media" report reads like a grim epitaph of traditional media. Only cable TV did not suffer the hemorrhaging evident at legacy media companies.

Kate Snow Jumps From ABC to NBC

ABC News anchor Kate Snow is defecting to NBC News, where she will be a correspondent for "Dateline," NBC announced Friday. Since 2004, Snow has co-anchored the weekend edition of ABC's "Good Morning America," a position viewed as a steppingstone to an assignment on the weekday edition of the morning show. But when "GMA" configured its team late last year after the departure of Diane Sawyer, the job of news anchor went to Juju Chang.

Staffers Say Beck's Comments Taint Their Work

In just over a year, Glenn Beck's blinding burst of stardom has often seemed to overshadow the rest of Fox News. And that may not be a good thing for the top-rated cable news channel, as many of its staffers are acutely aware.