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Short Stream | Daadhi blends comedy and commentary on newsroom madness
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Short Stream | Daadhi blends comedy and commentary on newsroom madness

Hindustan Times  

It is by now a stodgy pop culture — and national — cliché that TV newsrooms are vile. The story goes: A failed method actor turned idealistic journalist who always pitches farmer suicide stories to his boorishly absurd boss, a TV showman, has to once save the channel by impersonating a Muslim fundamentalist on prime-time news debates. Watch the film …

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Richard Leibner, pioneering agent of TV news stars, dies at 85
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Richard Leibner, pioneering agent of TV news stars, dies at 85

LA Times  

Richard Leibner, the accountant-turned-agent who turbocharged the careers of numerous TV journalists, died Tuesday after a long illness. “To say that Richard was iconic and larger than life is truly an understatement.” Over a nearly six-decade career, Leibner was known as a fierce negotiator for a who’s who of network TV news stars including Diane Sawyer, Mike Wallace, Norah O’Donnell, …

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Horrific images from Israel-Hamas war pose challenges for TV news
1 year, 2 months ago

Horrific images from Israel-Hamas war pose challenges for TV news

LA Times  

Once again, TV news is saturated with images of an international conflict only a year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. All three of the U.S. broadcast network evening news anchors — Lester Holt of NBC, David Muir of ABC and Norah O’Donnell of CBS — traveled to the Israeli city of Tel Aviv for their programs, a move still seen …

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Is India’s television news industry killing itself?
2 years, 1 month ago

Is India’s television news industry killing itself?

Live Mint  

Is the Indian television news industry its own worst enemy? A senior executive of a large fast-moving consumer goods company said it has minimised its exposure on news channels though TV remains the platform-of-choice for media spending for its food brands. Consequently, TV news industry executives said the total size of the news genre may still be around ₹5,000 crore. …

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Why free streaming channels could be the future of broadcast TV news
2 years, 1 month ago

Why free streaming channels could be the future of broadcast TV news

LA Times  

If TV news legends Walter Cronkite or David Brinkley were alive and still reporting today, you probably would be watching them on a streaming channel. The channels — NBC News Now, ABC News Live and CBS News Streaming — were launched over the last decade without much fanfare. “The trajectory of growth suggests it will be a phenomenal business in …

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Film on anchor Ravish Kumar ‘angry letter to journalism’ in India
2 years, 3 months ago

Film on anchor Ravish Kumar ‘angry letter to journalism’ in India

Al Jazeera  

While We Watched, a documentary on popular TV journalist, is a ‘wake-up call to how perilous and fragile relationship between free press and democracy is’. In his acceptance speech, Shukla said: “All of us believe at some point in our life that we can be something that is bigger than ourselves and then we spend a lot of time being …

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Richard Wald, veteran TV news executive for ABC and NBC, dies at 92
2 years, 7 months ago

Richard Wald, veteran TV news executive for ABC and NBC, dies at 92

LA Times  

Richard Wald, a longtime journalist and TV executive who guided the programs and anchors that helped shape network news over several decades, died Friday at 92. During Wald’s ABC run from 1977 to 1999, Peter Jennings emerged as the most-watched evening news anchor and the network’s special event coverage regularly topped the competition in the Nielsen ratings. Previous to his …

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Fox News gets into the weather business. Will climate-conscious viewers take it seriously?
3 years, 2 months ago

Fox News gets into the weather business. Will climate-conscious viewers take it seriously?

LA Times  

Whenever consumers are asked to name their primary reason for tuning into a TV newscast, the No. It’s why Fox News Media is investing more than $10 million in a new digital service called Fox Weather that will be available as a free, live, 24-hour ad-supported streaming video channel available as a mobile app and on internet-connected TVs through services …

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How 9/11 changed the way we watch TV news
3 years, 3 months ago

How 9/11 changed the way we watch TV news

LA Times  

Fox News added a crawl to its screen on Sept. 11, 2001, which became a fixture for cable news. But the tragedy was also a defining moment for cable news channels, which were still considered disruptors in the TV business, when they introduced a simple innovation — headlines scrolling at the bottom of the screen — that helped change the …

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TV news coverage is cautious as election night turns into a weeklong epic
4 years, 1 month ago

TV news coverage is cautious as election night turns into a weeklong epic

LA Times  

Arnon Mishkin, head of the Fox News decision desk, went on camera to explain his early call of Arizona for Joe Biden. Many states were categorized as “too close to call” or “too early to call.” At the start of ABC News’ coverage, chief anchor George Stephanopoulos attempted to prepare viewers by telling them the wait for the results should …

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World Mental Health Day | Is the news making you ill?
4 years, 2 months ago

World Mental Health Day | Is the news making you ill?

Live Mint  

Everybody’s cortisol levels are at an all-time high… we are marinating in stress hormones,” says Shwetambara Sabharwal, a Mumbai-based clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and MintLounge.in columnist, speaking to me from a farmhouse in Khopoli, a few hours from Mumbai, where she is riding out the pandemic while managing her patients virtually. Sabharwal equates its physical impact to strenuous cardiac exercise and …

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'UPSC Jihad' Show : Fresh Notice Sent To Sudarshan News TV Based On Inter-Ministerial Committee Recommendations, Centre Tells SC
4 years, 2 months ago

'UPSC Jihad' Show : Fresh Notice Sent To Sudarshan News TV Based On Inter-Ministerial Committee Recommendations, Centre Tells SC

Live Law  

The Central Government on Monday informed the Supreme Court that the Inter-Ministerial Committee has made some additional recommendations with respect to the Sudarshan News TV channel, which is facing complaints of propagating communal hatred over its show 'Bindas Bol' about the entry of Muslims into All India Civil Services. The letter circulated states that, as the Bench had been informed, …

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[Breaking] "You Cannot Target One Community And Brand Them In A Particular Manner": SC Restrains Sudarshan TV From Telecasting "UPSC Jihad" Show [Read Order]
4 years, 3 months ago

[Breaking] "You Cannot Target One Community And Brand Them In A Particular Manner": SC Restrains Sudarshan TV From Telecasting "UPSC Jihad" Show [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Supreme Court on Tuesday restrained the Sudarshan TV News from telecasting the remaining episodes of the 'Bindas Bol' show about Muslims clearing the UPSC exam until further orders, after prima facie observing that the object of the show was to vilify Muslims. "At this stage, prima facie, it appears to the court that the object, intent and purpose of …

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On India’s stage, the theatre of the absurd, writes Rajdeep Sardesai
4 years, 3 months ago

On India’s stage, the theatre of the absurd, writes Rajdeep Sardesai

Hindustan Times  

For weeks now, the obituary of TV news has been written by many media observers. The sensational, ethically flawed and, at times, totally inane coverage of actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s tragic death is being seen as the last rites of a medium in seemingly terminal decline. When was the last time three of India’s top national agencies — Central Bureau …

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