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"Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter and I talked about Kathy Griffin, Bill Maher, Scott Pelley and the end of public editors at "The New York Times" in a

By David Zurawik

Jun 4, 2017

If it feels like the world of TV news has turned upside down in the last year, that’s because it has.

By David Zurawik

May 31, 2017

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.”

By David Zurawik

May 31, 2017

If distrust of the media is a crisis, it's a crisis of the media's making, Cal Thomas writes.

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.

By David Zurawik

Jan 6, 2017

1. Network news is definitely not the place to be for the best election night coverage.

By David Zurawik

Mar 2, 2016

The closing of a news outlet that puts hundreds of people out of work is always a sad story to report. But in the case of Al Jazeera America, which announced Wednesday that it would shut down operations by April 30, the implications for the entire TV news industry, its audiences and democracy are even more depressing.

By David Zurawik

Jan 15, 2016

Alan Gross, the former government contractor from Rockville who spent five years locked up in a Cuban jail, said in his first interview since being released in a historic deal last year that he thought he'd quickly be freed once his bosses intervened.

By Ian Duncan

Nov 27, 2015

With spots like Honey Maid's '4 de Julio,' advertisers seize an opportunity

By David Zurawik

Jul 2, 2015

ABC, CBS may emphasize good journalism as good business

By David Zurawik

Feb 15, 2015

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

The premiere of ¿Thursday Night Football¿ on CBS was a winner in my book before a second of the game between the Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers was played at M&T Bank Stadium.

It used to be that change at a network anchor desk was huge news.

With the word Tuesday that "NewsHour" was shutting down offices and laying off employees, it's time to ask the question: just how much of this one-time PBS bedrock is actually left?

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.

Andy Rooney, whose CBS career spans the entire post-war history of network news, died Friday as a result of complications following minor surgery, the network announced.

After a year of speculation about how the end of Oprah Winfrey's show would affect ratings for local stations, the October "sweeps" ratings period shows the CBS-owned station WJZ surpassing the longtime ratings champ and NBC affiliate WBAL in the early evening hours.

It was deja vu all over again for viewers of WJZ-TV's 11 p.m. news who had watched the "CBS Eveening News with Scott Pelley" earlier Tuesday.

The TV press is doing a conscientious and aggressive job of covering the economic story, without getting routinely played by the political spin doctors trying to use the nation's misery for their team's gain. The news operations doing the best work are CNN, CBS and ABC.