I know 2026 is a big political year. That’s why I am proposing that next year, local newsrooms put out mandates that newscast producers can no longer run national political packages “as is” in ...

NEW YORK—Consumers of local broadcast news continue to deem it as a valuable source of information—whether it’s political races, local sports teams or weather—regardless of accessing it on their TVs ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On Monday, the CBS affiliate in Sacramento posted a thirty-minute video to its YouTube page that, on its face, seemed likely to ...

In most years, a graph of annual local TV ad spending is about as predictable as an electrocardiogram of a reasonably healthy patient in a doctor’s office. Revenue spikes upwards on even-numbered ...

Before cable news channels gave us all the news all day long, it was the local news that was the lifeblood of American journalism. National stories were essential, and the meat and bread of ...