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 ...

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 ...

When FCC Chairman Brendan Carr appears before the Senate Commerce Committee on Dec. 17, Democrats will likely spend their energy projecting. After years of colluding with Big Tech to censor ...

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 ...