Baltimore TV Station Drops Anchor After On-Air Question About ‘Female, African American Mayors’
“I hope that the people of Baltimore know that I would never do anything to hurt anyone,” former anchor Mary Bubala says
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Jeff Glor to Leave ‘CBS Evening News’ as He Found It – Dead Last in the Ratings
Glor has consistently been millions of viewers behind his rivals at NBC and ABC
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CNN Sheds 100-Plus Employees in Buyouts
A rep for the network says the buyouts were voluntary and there were no layoffs
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Ex-CNN Anchor Soledad O’Brien Calls Out Network for Lack of Diversity Among Executives
“CNN needs more people of color working in the executive, decision-making ranks,” O’Brien says
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Reuters Reporters Released From Myanmar Prison After More Than a Year
“We are enormously pleased that Myanmar has released our courageous reporters,” said Reuters Editor-in-Chief Stephen J. Adler
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Jeff Glor Sidesteps CBS News Shakeup Questions in ‘Evening News’ Broadcast (Video)
Norah O’Donnell will take over as anchor of ‘CBS Evening News’ later this year
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‘Jeopardy!’ Contestant Describes Losing to James Holzhauer: The ‘Machine Is Inexorable’
“What makes him a ‘Jeopardy!’ machine is all of that and his impeccable timing on the buzzer,” Stephanie Stein says
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Seattle Times Reporter Suspended After Sexual Harassment Accusations
“We take these kinds of allegations very seriously,” the paper says in a statement
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Norah O’Donnell to Anchor ‘CBS Evening News,’ Jeff Glor’s Future at CBS Uncertain
“It is incredibly humbling to accept this position,” O’Donnell said on set at “CBS This Morning”
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Mark Halperin Launches Political Blog 18 Months After Career Derailed Over ‘Inappropriate’ Behavior
The site is called Mark Halperin’s Wide World of News
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Fox Nation Hosts Diamond & Silk Criticize Congressman for ‘Racially Insensitive’ Fried Chicken Stunt
“Imagine if that was a Republican doing that to a Democrat,” Diamond says during an appearance on “Fox & Friends” Friday
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‘CBS This Morning’ Co-Anchor Norah O’Donnell Sidesteps Shakeup Reports on Friday Show
“We will address them on Monday,” O’Donnell says of big changes afoot at CBS News
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Woody Allen Memoir Proposal Rejected by 4 Publishers (Report)
Publishing executives told the New York Times they passed on a book proposal by Oscar-winning filmmaker
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Facebook Bans ‘Dangerous Individuals’ Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Louis Farrakhan
“We’ve always banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology,” Facebook says
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A NY Times Editor Recuses Himself From 2020 Coverage After Brother Launches Presidential Run
Editorial page editor James Bennet will not cover “any work generated by the opinion desk related to the 2020 presidential election,” Times says
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‘Fox & Friends’ Touts Ratings Success, Says Networks Focusing on Mueller ‘Seem to Be Tanking’
“Our network is focusing on things other than Mueller and seems to be thriving,” co-host Brian Kilmeade says
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NBCUniversal Slapped With $275 Million Defamation Suit by Covington Student
Lawyers for Nick Sandmann say NBCU relied “heavily on biased and unreliable sources without conducting any reasonable investigation”
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NY Times to Take ‘Disciplinary Steps’ Against Production Editor Who Published Anti-Semitic Cartoon
“We fell far short of our standards and values in this case,” Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger says in a memo to staff on Wednesday
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NY Times Editorial Criticizes Paper Over Anti-Semitic Cartoon: ‘The Times Ignored the Lessons of History’
“In the 1930s and the 1940s, The Times was largely silent as anti-Semitism rose up and bathed the world in blood,” paper says
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Laura Ingraham Loses Sponsor After Guest Says Beto O’Rourke Is ‘Light in the Loafers’
“We strongly denounce intolerance of any kind and therefore you won’t find our ads on this program,” men’s wellness company Hims says
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Gizmodo and The Onion’s New Owner Lays Off 25, Including Top Editors
“Today was a tough moment in the very new life of G/O Media. But it was a necessary step,” G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller says
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ESPN the Magazine to Shut Down Print Edition in September
“This approach will maximize our reach and impact,” ESPN says in a statement
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Joe Scarborough Defends Joe Biden With Photo of Former VP Holding His Son’s Shoulders
“Morning Joe” co-host showed image as part of a broader defense of 2020 Democratic front-runner
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CNN Contributor Says Democrat ‘Can Shoot My Dog’ So Long as They Can Beat Trump in 2020 (Video)
“I am a JFK Democrat; I will pay any price,” Paul Begala says
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Oprah Winfrey Says She Quit ’60 Minutes’ Because Show Was ‘Flattening Out My Personality’
“It was not the best format for me,” Winfrey says
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Axios Reporter Apologizes for Tweet Using Offensive Term for Japanese People
“A US-Jap trade deal by May? 0% chance, say sources close to the talks,” Jonathan Swan said in his original post
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Washington Post: Trump Passes 10,000 ‘False or Misleading Claims’ Since Becoming President
President made “an average of nearly 23 claims a day” over the last seven months, according to the paper’s fact checkers
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Andrew Napolitano Responds to Trump Twitter Attacks: ‘This Is the Way You Treat Your Friends’
“He wanted to divert attention from what Mueller had said about him,” Fox New senior judicial analyst says
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NY Times Columnist Calls Out Paper Over ‘Despicable’ Anti-Semitic Cartoon
“How have even the most blatant expressions of anti-Semitism become almost undetectable to editors?” Bret Stephens asks
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‘Hamilton’ Author Ron Chernow Calls Out ‘Relentless Campaign’ Against Media at White House Correspondent’s Dinner
“Alexander Hamilton … an immigrant who arrived — thank God — before the country was full,” Chernow said to laughs at the annual event
