The phone-hacking scandal began two years ago as a lonely newspaper crusade in London, but when Rupert Murdoch testified Tuesday before British lawmakers, the story undeniably took the world by its ear with coverage spanning from Al Jazeera to Brazil to China, media experts said.
Nearly five months after signing off from MSNBC, left-wing news personality Keith Olbermann returned to the airwaves Monday with the relaunch of his signature "Countdown" show on Current TV.
She is joined by clips of Presidents Bush and Obama, Sarah Palin, Captain Sully and Betty White
CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric announces she is leaving the show to pursue other options.
Reports surface that the anchor doesn't plan to renew his gig when his contract expires at the end of 2012
Could her former View costar Elisabeth Hasselbeck be a contender for the gig?
"We were overly ambitious," says Katie Couric, who is reportedly close to stepping down as CBS anchor
MSNBC prime-time host Keith Olbermann was back on the air Tuesday night after missing a couple of nights of work for violating the ethics policy of the cable network.
CNN's Howard Kurtz asks journalists for their opinion on the MSNBC Keith Olbermann suspension.
National Public Radio's chief executive apologized to the network's employees Sunday for the way she handled the firing of news analyst Juan Williams.
The uproar surrounding National Public Radio's decision to terminate Juan Williams' contract is partly a reflection of changing standards in journalism and an evolving understanding of the line between news analysis and commentary, according to one former media insider.
NPR's president and CEO defended Thursday the network's decision to terminate the contract of Juan Williams after the news analyst made remarks elsewhere that she said veered from analysis into opinion, adding that it was not the first time.
The Democratic National Committee has launched a new website where anyone can upload videos. Call this the political YouTube.
CNN's parent company Time Warner confirmed on Wednesday that it is in discussions with CBS News as well as other broadcast news organizations about a possible news-gathering partnership.
One-time Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin may have sent a clear message to the political world, analysts say, by signing a deal to become a TV commentator.
George Stephanopoulos has been named the new anchor of "Good Morning America," and will start next Monday, ABC News President David Westin announced today.
In this past week of very important news -- when the president presided over the memorial service for the slain soldiers of Fort Hood and departed on his first Asia trip, and the attorney general made the controversial decision to treat the mastermind terrorist of 9/11 as a criminal to be tried in a Manhattan civilian courtroom -- the story of the departure of longtime CNN anchor Lou Dobbs still jumped out.
Diane Sawyer now joins Katie Couric as anchor of a major network evening newscast, leaving Brian Williams the sole man.
Diane Sawyer will take over nightly news anchor duties for ABC when Charlie Gibson retires from "World News" at the end of this year, a network spokesman confirmed Wednesday.
CNN President Jon Klein credits 60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt for many of the innovations used in television news today.
Television pioneer and longtime CBS executive Don Hewitt, the creator of "60 Minutes," has died, the network said Wednesday. He was 86.
Walter Cronkite, the CBS anchorman known as "Uncle Walter" for his easygoing, measured delivery and "the most trusted man in America" for his rectitude and gravitas, died Friday night in his New York home, CBS reported.
Veteran journalist and longtime CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite dies at the age of 92.
Death of a Giant
updated: Sat Jul 18 2009 22:52:00
Guest Host John King talks with Larry King, Katie Couric and others to remember the life of Walter Cronkite.
Throughout his career as a television anchorman, Walter Cronkite had a few memorable run-ins with other powerful figures at CBS News, one of his producers told CNN.
The veteran anchor leaves three children, four grandchildren - and millions of admirers
Walter Cronkite, the CBS newsman so revered by Americans that they considered him the "most trusted man in America," died today. He was 92 and had homes in New York and Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
The Texas native has a country band, has won six Emmys for his work on CBS and drove Lee Harvey Oswald's mother to Dallas after JFK's assassination. He'll also moderate the third and final Presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama
There were enough TV journalists and political strategists to fill several political roundtables attending the funeral for Meet the Press host Tim Russert
Amid reports that Katie Couric could be fired from CBS, Showbiz Tonight looks into whether it really could happen.
Though her contract ends in 2011, the anchor could exit in January 2009
CBS News and "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric are downplaying a Wall Street Journal report that Couric plans to leave the network long before her contract expires in 2011.
Former ABC News chief national security correspondent John McWethy died from injuries in a Colorado skiing accident, a coroner said Thursday.
For a quarter century, the Weather Channel has been arguably the most boringly lucrative station on the dial. After all, we're talking about 24-7 weather updates from across this great nation presented on such straight-up shows as "Weekend View" and "Your Weather Today." Rather than Fox News' stentorian "we report, you decide," the Weather channel's motto might be: "We report, you decide what to wear."
On an October afternoon sticky enough to pass for midsummer, Rebecca Gomez, a veteran Fox News correspondent, and her co-star Cody Willard, a former hedge fund trader who bears a passing resemblance to Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, belly up to the bar at the Bull & Bear in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The regulars look up from their martinis when Gomez shouts, "Ten minutes, everyone. This is the first hit of FBN."
CNN's Mary Snow explains why former ''60 Minutes'' anchor Dan Rather is suing CBS.
Dan Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit Wednesday against CBS, alleging that the network made him a "scapegoat" for a discredited story about President Bush's National Guard service.
With many viewers apparently outside enjoying summer's last hurrah, the broadcast television networks hit a negative ratings trifecta only a few weeks before the start of the fall season.
A ventriloquist and exhibition football helped NBC snap Fox's 28-week winning streak among youthful viewers.
Here's news that Fox's series "Anchorwoman" wouldn't want to deliver: It's been canceled after one low-rated airing.
The broadcast networks plodded on with mostly reruns and reality fare -- at least some of those shows made a little music.
CBS News has become the latest network to shake up management of its evening news broadcast, bringing in a new producer to try to turn around disappointing ratings, according to a published report.
Nearly 13.6 million people tuned into watch Katie Couric in her debut as the host of CBS's nightly news telecast on Tuesday, the network said Wednesday.
Katie Couric is finally making her long-awaited debut as the anchor of the CBS Evening News on Tuesday. But while that may be big news on Main Street, analysts say it doesn't mean much for Wall Street.
CNNMoney: CBS: Kiss me Katieupdated: Tue Apr 04 2006 10:10:00
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - After months (that seemed like years) of speculation, Katie Couric has finally announced that she will jump ship from NBC to CBS.
Veteran CBS correspondent Mike Wallace is retiring from "60 Minutes" after more than 40 years at the network, it was announced Tuesday.
Leslie Moonves got a little carried away last year talking about the changes he was mulling for the CBS Evening News after the departure of Dan Rather. "On the one hand we could have a newscast lik...
Longtime ABC anchor Peter Jennings has been diagnosed with lung cancer, the broadcaster announced on his evening newscast Tuesday.
Ted Koppel is leaving ABC and the "Nightline" show he has hosted since it started in 1980 -- making him the third high-profile news anchor to leave a broadcast network in the last year.
Twenty-four years after taking over the job from Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather will anchor his final "CBS Evening News" broadcast on Wednesday.
NBC Universal CEO Robert Wright said Thursday that talk of the impending death of evening news shows on broadcast television have been greatly exaggerated, and criticized rival CBS for thinking about ending the traditional format.
CBS News has ousted four employees over its "60 Minutes Wednesday" report about President Bush's National Guard service, the network said Monday.
Dan Rather announced Tuesday that he'll step down as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News," 24 years to the day after he assumed the post.
Longtime anchor Dan Rather will leave the "CBS Evening News" on March 9, the network said Tuesday, just months after Rather's use of questionable documents in a report critical of President Bush's National Guard service.
Dan Rather will step down as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News on March 9, 2005 after 24 years in the job.
Minus "Friends" or any big breakout hits, NBC has stumbled out of the starting gate this TV season.
John Kerry did it. John Edwards announced he was running for president when he did it.
Will Ferrell has been an elf, he has been a middle-aged frat boy and he has also been President Bush. Now he's behind the anchor desk.
In "Anchorman," Will Ferrell plays Ron Burgundy, a pompous, vain, shallow-minded local news anchor.
NBC announced Wednesday that "Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw will remain with the network's news division through 2014.
Dramatic theme songs have opened national network news broadcasts for years. To viewers they're as familiar as Walter Cronkite's face and as powerful as Tom Brokaw's hair spray. But where did they ...
These are eventful times for television news, and we're not talking about impeachment or air attacks on Iraq. Take CBS News, the place where broadcast news was invented--and where its future is now...
Now this is must-see TV. In a new Mexican soap opera, Mirada de Mujer (A Woman's Gaze), a 50-year-old woman tires of her husband's philandering. Instead of silently suffering, which she might be ex...
"How many of you saw the football games over the weekend?" asked Roone Arledge, the president of ABC News. It wasn't a casual question. On the Monday morning after New Year's, Arledge wanted to del...
If you didn't get out much in November, there's a very good reason: Every TV station in the country was conspiring to keep you in your Barcalounger. The networks put on their very best stuff (NBC g...
Ted Turner drank iced tea. Bill Gates downed prodigious amounts of Cherry Coke. They shared a lunch of cold salmon, sizing each other up across the dining-room table of a dream house built by Micro...
Fortune: Nightly news updateupdated: Mon Aug 03 1987 00:01:00
Poor Larry Tisch. First his CBS management team got bad-mouthed by Dan Rather and others in the news division for closing bureaus, firing employees, and slicing $30 million from the $300-million ne...
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