LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The number of American TV viewers who watched the last debate between U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney fell sharply on a night when football and baseball competed with politics for eyeballs. Final Nielse... More »
(Reuters) – Newsweek, one of the most internationally recognized magazine brands in the world, will cease publishing a print edition after nearly 80 years. The decision to go all-digital underscores the problems faced by newsweeklies, as more consumers favor t... More »
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) – Tom Brokaw, the Emmy Award winning former “NBC Nightly News” anchor, spent part of Thursday undergoing a battery of tests at a Charlotte, North Carolina, hospital after becoming lightheaded from a sleeping aid, the network... More »
(Reuters) – CNN host and Time magazine contributing editor-at-large Fareed Zakaria was suspended by his employers on Friday after he acknowledged copying material for a recent column he wrote about gun control from another writer. Time said it was suspending Z... More »
(Reuters) – CNN Worldwide President Jim Walton said on Friday he is leaving the once-dominant cable news network, which has been plagued by low ratings in recent years. Phil Kent, chief executive of Turner Broadcasting, will begin a search for a new president,... More »
(Reuters) – The latest sign of trouble for NBC’s news division comes from MSNBC, which saw a ratings decline compared to previous weeks as news of the shootings in Colorado was unfolding last Friday. Not only did MSNBC’s ratings significantly trail cable news ... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ordered senior Pentagon officials on Thursday to begin monitoring major U.S. news media for disclosures of classified information in an effort to stop the release of government secrets after a series of hig... More »
(Reuters) – The editor of the New York Post may be forced to answer questions about his discussions with media mogul Rupert Murdoch over fallout from the newspaper’s publication of a cartoon that appeared to liken President Barack Obama to a chimpanzee. A fede... More »
(Reuters) – AT&T Inc said AMC Networks is seeking an “excessive rate increase” to renew its U-verse TV contract, which the mobile service provider believes is unreasonable. “AMC Networks is asking that AT&T pay nearly double what we believe other competitors p... More »
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – CNN said on Wednesday it was canceling John King’s daily TV show “John King, USA,” and shifting the veteran journalist to head up its 2012 presidential campaign coverage. King’s show will end on June 29, and Wolf Blitzer’s “The Situatio... More »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The film and TV industry has spent $60 billion in New York City over the last decade, and production of feature films and popular shows is at an “all-time high,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Tuesday. While financial incentives to lure f... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. movie studios, drug manufacturers and other companies that depend heavily on copyrights, patents and trademarks to protect their creative works support 40 million jobs, or about 28 percent of the U.S. workforce, a U.S. report said o... More »
