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Will Davis is an aspiring photographer. As he traveled around Europe this offseason, collecting stamps on his passport, the

By Jeff Zrebiec

Sep 6, 2016

Former CBS News correspondent Eric Engberg followed his blistering Facebook post on Saturday about Bill O'Reilly with an appearance Sunday on CNN's "Reliable Sources."

By David Zurawik

Feb 22, 2015

NBC should put Brian Williams back on the street as a reporter to regain credibility, says Jules Witcover.

Brian Williams' lies are not equal to those of Fox 'News' -- they are worse, says Leonard Pitts.

Brian Williams has destroyed his credibility as a journalist

The confession of NBC news anchor Brian Williams that he lied — or as he put it "conflated" — about being aboard an Army helicopter shot down in Iraq in 2003 has revived the issue of a prominent television journalist's credibility, especially one sitting almost as an icon in one of today's coveted network anchor chairs.

By Jules Witcover

Feb 9, 2015

Anchor Brian Williams put NBC's credibility on the line

I joined Sharyl Attkisson and Paul Farhi on Howie Kurtz's "Media Buzz" today to talk about the growing nightmare for Brain Willaims and NBC News since "Stars and Stripes" reported Wednesday on his lies about covering the the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

By David Zurawik

Feb 8, 2015

NFL's power over its broadcast outlets has gone too far

By David Zurawik

Jan 30, 2015

When NBC Sports executives began planning their Super Bowl XLIX pregame show before the season even began, Ravens coach John Harbaugh was their top choice as a guest analyst. The Ravens¿ 35-31 AFC divisional round loss to the New England Patriots was NBC¿s, and the Super Bowl viewers¿ gain.

By Jon Meoli

Jan 28, 2015

Former 'Tonight' show host considers the merits of appearing on Letterman

By Chris Kaltenbach

Jan 17, 2015

Michelle Butt, news director at WBAL-TV and radio station WBAL-AM, is leaving to be president and general manager at WXII-TV, an NBC affiliate in North Carolina.

By David Zurawik

Jan 12, 2015

After another season of mainly singing the praises of Al Michaels, Cris Collinsworth and the NBC broadcast crew as the best in the business, I can¿t tell you how disappointed I was by their Saturday performance in telecasting the Ravens 35-31 loss to the New England Patriots.

By David Zurawik

Jan 10, 2015

The Baltimore Ravens were not the only team to raise its game to playoff level in beating the Pittsburgh Steelers 30-17 Saturday.

By David Zurawik

Jan 4, 2015

Biggest stories of the year didn't need traditional news outlets

By David Zurawik

Dec 26, 2014

The "Today" show hype of its conversation with Janay Rice is almost grotesque in its overkill, but the first parts of Matt Lauer's actual sit-down with the wife of the former Ravens running back and her mother was a respectable piece of morning show TV interviewing.

By David Zurawik

Dec 1, 2014

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.

By David Zurawik

Nov 5, 2014

NBC's "Sunday Night Football" is the gold standard of NFL television, no doubt about it. But last night's telecast of the Ravens 43-23 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers was not one of the network's greatest performances.

By David Zurawik

Nov 3, 2014

One of the most remarkable stories in pop culture is the power of the NFL as TV entertainment.

By David Zurawik

Oct 31, 2014

Barry Levinson has signed on to direct the pilot and and serve as an executive producer on a new Jennifer Lopez police drama planned to air on NBC in 2015.

CBS is partnering with the NFL Network to do 16 games on Thursday nights, but the first eight on CBS are the game changers. Getting the rights to the Thursday night games didn't change everything for the network's sports division.

After playing at being a TV correspondent and doing some of the worst on-air network reporting I have seen in 30 years of writing about media, Chelsea Clinton is declaring victory and moving on, she told People magazine.

I love "Breaking Bad," and even I didn't think it would win as big as it did Monday night at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards.

David Zurawik: It's time for the Emmy Awards again, and I am excited and angry.

Michael Phelps will try to regain his winning form at the Pan Pacific Championships in Australia this week.

Old photographs, newspapers and other miscellaneous "gay pride ephemera" from the last half-century of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history in Baltimore will be added on Tuesday to one of the nation's most esteemed museum collections.

Performed by 33 talented actors ranging in age from 6 to 18 from all over the tri-county area, Laurel Mill Playhouse's summer youth production plays as sweetly in 2014 as the NBC-owned musical starring Mary Martin did to oldsters in its audience.

Baltimore mayor says military equipment should be used only in emergencies

In my Monday-night appreciation of Robin Williams, I wrote about a 1994 episode of NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Street" in which the comedian delivered an outstanding dramatic performance.

Nixon's biggest mistake was thinking he could get away with what other politicians had done, but forgetting that the rules are different for Republicans

I only have 2 million other better things to write about. But after 24 hours of waiting for someone else to unload on Sean Hannity, the Fox News host who defines political stooge, I have to say something.

Former NFL quarterback Scott Mitchell, who started a pair of games for the Ravens in 1999 and had a 12-year NFL career, will be featured on NBC¿s ¿The Biggest Loser,¿ a show in which people try to lose weight under the supervision of personal trainers.

Though he has swum four events since his return to competition, Michael Phelps will gain a truer gauge of his form this week in California where he'll swim at U.S. Nationals.

There was Wendell Pierce last Sunday night, sitting at a bar, pounding down drink after drink and getting kind of emotional as he talked about how messed up things had gotten in his life.

From the first days of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when I saw Ayman Mohyeldin and his NBC News crew under fire from police in Israel, I have been thinking how much we have come to to take TV reporters for granted in places like the Middle East.

Israeli bullying at the heart of current conflict

Songwriter to perform his hits and some of his piano concerto

The Laurel City Council convened a special work session Thursday with the President of the Laurel Boys and Girls Club to address allegations surrounding the club's relationship with Laurel Prep Academy -- an after-school basketball program operated out of the club.

The grisly discovery Monday of the bodies of three Israeli teens who had been abducted June 12 as they hitchhiked home from a West Bank settlement yeshiva set off a week of mounting violence in the region.

Believe me, I didn't go looking in my Sunday morning TV viewing for more evidence of what a journalistically bankrupt operation NBC News had become.

Never mind that there were dozens of TV sets at the bar, many turned to pro wrestling, poker and bowling to provide background noise early one weekend morning. Jon Forget walked in, asked the bartender to change one set to soccer and got laughed out of the joint.

In the middle of July 1992, Bill Clinton accepted the democratic nomination for president, the TV show "Melrose Place" premiered on Fox and America loved the following songs, via Billboard's Hot 100 chart archive.

Billed as the first professional country a cappella band, Home Free performs on Saturday, June 28, at 8 p.m., at the Jim Rouse Theatre at Wilde Lake.