The pageantry of the Winter Olympics will be in full bloom Friday.

Getting to the point of new traditions and remembering with joy has not been an easy process … as is usually the case for those who have suffered loss of loved ones. 

After six years of mostly third-place finishes in network news race, Scott Pelley is out as anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News.”

A little over three years after the launch of "The Kelly File," here she is in a league by herself as a TV news personality. There is no one even close. That's an incredible ascent, and I do not claim to have expected that.

In the first media bombshell of 2017, NBC announced today that Fox News host Megyn Kelly will be joining the network to anchor a new one-hour daytime show.

Yesterday, I wrote about the higher, ritualistic purpose some of the more responsible cable channels news played on election night as earth-shaking results were

Donald Trump might think he's playing it safe and smart by doing interviews only on Fox and mainly with Sean Hannity. But it blew up on Sarah Palin in 2008.

Leonard Pitts Jr. asks: Since when is knowing things no longer a prerequisite to running for president?

ARIES (March 21-April 19): "The past lives on in art and memory," writes author Margaret Drabble, "but it is not static: it shifts and changes as the present

Katie Couric tries to cover-up her journalistic sin by saying she wanted to start a conversation, says Jonah Goldberg.

In these days of news cycles measured in minutes, if not seconds, the Katie Couric scandal may seem almost as stale as Katie Couric herself. But bear with me. It's a big deal, and not just because she lied. But let's begin with the lie.

Trump's ratings muscle, Twitter attack capability form a potent combination to intimidate networks, cable channels

We talked some more today on CNN about the debate everyone seems unable to stop talking about.

Billionaire, GOP presidential candidate walks all over journalists

"My Girl" reached the top of the pop charts 50 years ago this week; it is the most perfect song ever written says Leonard Pitts.

Out of all of the things I have read and written and said myself on radio, TV and video about Brian Williams the past five days, the one phrase that keeps rattling around in my head is Williams saying on Saturday, ¿As managing editor of NBC Nightly News, I have decided to take myself off of my daily broadcast for the next several days.¿

There is more media than ever covering American political life. And with each major election, the coverage seems to get worse ¿ or, at least, more confused and misguided.

A weekend of "inspiring and thought provoking" films from around the country will be part of the 6th Annual Town of Bel Air Film Festival Oct. 16 to 18 at the Bel Air Record Armory.

Why is Martin O'Malley running for the democratic presidential nomination when everyone on the planet knows it belongs to Hillary Clinton?

Do you have the charisma of Oprah, the peppiness of Katie Couric and the wit of Letterman?

In an effort clearly meant to defend himself, Piers Morgan invited Janet Mock back to discuss the controversy over their first interview.

"Orange is the New Black" actress Laverne Cox, who will speak in Towson in March, attended Elle's Women in Television celebration with little issue made of her being transgender.

"Orange is the New Black" actress Laverne Cox artfully shut down Katie Couric's uncomfortably invasive question about Carmen Carrera's transition.

Popular TV host described losing her husband to cancer.

CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley points to a record of solid growth at a time when most in the media business are just hoping to stem the rate of decline.

Remember all the big, high-sounding media talk right after the massacre at Sandy Hook about how maybe now we will have a "national dialogue" about guns?

Of all the major executive, talent and programming moves that CNN has made in the last few years, the expected announcement of Jeff Zucker as the president of CNN Worldwide looks like one of the best.

Forget the 'baggage'; with her emotional appeal, blue-collar roots and charisma, she's everything Mitt Romney isn't

Lady Gaga starts a "Body Revolution" body image campaign after being criticized for gaining 25 pounds

The mother of Yeardley Love, the University of Virginia lacrosse player who was murdered by her boyfriend, is launching a new campaign against partner violence.

Sharon and Lexie Love, mother and sister of Yeardley Love, who was murdered by an ex-boyfriend, will be interviewed Thursday on "Katie," the new syndicated show hosted by former CBS anchorwoman Katie Couric.

On Sept. 11 and 12, 2008, ABC News aired Charlie Gibson's interviews with vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. They marked the beginning of the end for one of the most woefully unqualified and dangerous candidates ever put forth for the second highest office in the land.

But today, the 43-year-old performer, who returns to talk TV this month with ¿The Ricki Lake Show,¿ looks back and says: If only she had been able to understand what she had and what she might have done with all her clout at the time.

Tough battle ahead for Katie Couric's new show with Ellen, Judge Judy, Ricki Lake and WJZ news all head to head.

With the debut of her new syndicated talk show fast approaching, Katie Couric is out on the hustings promoting it at some of the many stations that have signed on. Monday, she sat down for an interview in at WMAR-TV (Channel 2) in Baltimore.

"Good Morning America"co-host George Stephanopoulos used the adjective "staggering" to describe the response to his on-air partner Robin Roberts' announcement this week that she has a blood disease and needs a bone marrow transplant.

Mitt Romney should select a running mate with one thought in mind — can he or she be trusted with the top job?

Day trips: Roll the dice at Revel