NEW YORK (AP) — They watched from the courtroom or via closed-circuit television in an overflow room — roughly 140 reporters, most with laptops or other silenced electronic devices, serving up news at its most elemental and in rapid-fire fashion. There were utterances posted a few …
Press Forward, the $500 million movement to reimagine local news, will launch applications on April 30 for its first open call for funding focused on addressing the long-standing inequalities in journalistic coverage of underserved communities. Local news outlets that fill coverage gaps with original reporting — …
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (April 19, 2024) – The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the nonprofit Poynter Institute, a global leader in journalism, in partnership with Google and YouTube, announces the […] The post $12 million Global Fact Check Fund opens applications for second year of grants …
Identifying news deserts as a growing phenomenon is nothing new. Penny Abernathy of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and other scholars have been tracking the rapid national spread of […] The post Topography of a news ecosystem: A first-of-its-kind study diagnoses the local news crisis …
One can spot it in an instance in any editorial meeting in any newsroom. Are employees invested and interested, or bored and checked out? Are just a couple of voices dominating the meeting, or is it an active discussion of impassioned ideas and approaches? Is …
Gray Television has renewed its daily, 30-minute news magazine InvestigateTV+ for a second season in 2024-25. The company said the renewal “is the direct result of impressive, double-digit ratings growth in the show’s debut season. InvestigateTV+ built audience throughout its first season with an average of 25% growth with …
CBS Stations today unveiled a new California-based investigative initiative, CBS News California Investigates, and appointed longtime journalist Julie Watts as the regional CBS California correspondent. Through CBS News California Investigates, Watts will uncover and raise awareness of serious issues impacting Californians, hold local officials accountable, obtain answers …
Tom Huang is a champion. He’s a champion for journalists of color, for mentoring young journalists, and for journalism training. As a longtime Poynter adjunct faculty and the assistant managing […] The post ‘I’m seeing on a very personal level how challenging it is to be …
Internet advertising revenues reached a record-high of $225 billion, increasing by 7.3% year-over-year overall (YoY) between 2022 and 2023, according to the newly released “IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report: Full Year 2023,” conducted by PwC. The report found that Q4 saw the highest growth rate …
NBCUniversal today launched personalized broadcast experiences through its NextGen TV (ATSC 3.0) over-the-air channels on NBC- and Telemundo-owned stations in four markets. The new product, NBCU says, “represents a significant milestone in realizing NextGen TV’s full potential by introducing personalization, hyper-localization and enhanced content capabilities …
Scripps News announced today that Ad Fontes Media, a tech company that rates the news for bias and reliability, will audit its national news as part of the network’s commitment to transparency and nonpartisan journalism. The agreement, Scripps News says, “comes as advertisers struggle to …
At NAB Show today, Parks Associates released new research, The Viewer Journey: Navigating Streaming Options, revealing U.S. Internet households now consume 43.5 hours of video per week on average across all viewing devices, an increase of more than six hours from 37.2 hours in 2020. Additionally, …
