“Stop that!� said Mika Brzezinski, who plays cohost to Joe Scarborough on the morning radio program The Joe Scarborough Show. “No, no, no. You know what? That’s what you do when you want to win a fight.� “No, I want you to answer the question,� said Joe Scarborough. “I’m not fighti...

This morning at 10:24 a.m., Anne Sweeney, the president of the Disney-ABC Television Group, sent out a cryptic email to all staffers informing them that today would be "an extremely difficult day," and that due to a "weakening economy," the group is "now faced with the harsh...

It doesn’t surprise many that Susan Zirinsky, the CBS News producer, was the inspiration for Holly Hunter’s Jane Craig character in Broadcast News. On a recent Monday afternoon, she was uncharacteristically static for a moment as she stared at a framed poster for Three Days in September, a docum...

WNET-Thirteen, PBS's flagship station in New York, is on the verge of enacting significant staff and budget reductions for the coming year. The layoffs will also affect sister station WLIW-21 and the station's parent public media organization WNET.org. Neal Shapiro, President and C.E.O. of WNET.org,...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Mark Whitaker, the 51-year-old Washington bureau chief for NBC News, was chuckli ng to himself. All this talk about celebrities invading the capital had made him jumpy, and he and a bunch of his fellow guests at a party at the British embassy here on Saturday night had just partic...

On the evening of Monday, January 19th, the publisher David Bradley , stood in the opulent living room of his Georgian mansion off of Embassy Row in Washington D.C., across the road from the Naval Observatory, and spoke of existential angst. "All of us have those middle of the night sentiments ...

Earlier this week, we wrote about heavy cuts that CBS News made to its Tel Aviv bureau shortly before the outbreak of war in Gaza. The layoffs come at a time when just about everyone in the media is suffering from a serious downturn in advertising. So how much money will CBS News save by reducing a ...

Today NBC News named Chuck Todd as the network's chief White House correspondent--a position previously occupied by the new moderator of Meet the Press David Gregory. Mr. Todd will be joined on the beat by Savannah Guthrie. He will retain the title of political director of NBC News and has picked up...

On Monday afternoon, NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker appeared at the UBS 36th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan, where he delivered the day's keynote address to a banquet hall of lunching media entrepreneurs, investors, and bankers. Over the course of ...

The seemingly epic search for Tim Russert's replacement as the next long-term moderator of Meet the Press is finally over. This morning, after an interview with President Elect Barack Obama, interim moderator Tom Brokaw welcomed David Gregory into the studio and, over the course of a five-minute seg...