Pro tip for Ronny Chieng fans–if you meet him in person, don’t say that you only get your news from The Daily Show… even if that happens to be true. “I wouldn’t like that,” the senior correspondent for Comedy Central’s longtime satirical newscast tells TVNewser when asked how he’d feel about being someone’s sole news…
George Stephanopoulos has signed a new contract with ABC News days after the network made the controversial decision to settle a defamation suit with President-elect Donald Trump. The veteran journalist will continue to co-host Good Morning America and anchor his Sunday morning show This Week With George Stephanopoulos. An ABC News spokesperson confirmed to TVNewser…
ABC News is facing a storm of criticism after announcing that it would pay $15 million to settle a defamation suit with President-elect Donald Trump that involved its anchor George Stephanopoulos. The network disclosed the settlement over the weekend, indicating that the payment would be in the form of a donation to a future Trump…
Kari Lake has been pocked by President-elect Donald Trump to be the next director of Voice of America. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, the former Arizona-based news anchor would oversee the federally funded media network that broadcasts globally. Trump announced the appointment on Truth Social, writing: “[Kari Lake] will be appointed by, and work…
Three million viewers tuned in to watch President-elect Donald Trump sit for his first post-election interview with a non-Fox News legacy media outlet over the weekend. According to Nielsen Media Research, Trump’s appearance on NBC News’ Meet the Press with Kristen Welker brought 2.914 total viewers and 569,000 viewers in the Adults 25-54 demo to…
Three million viewers tuned in to watch President-elect Donald Trump sit for his first post-election interview with a non-Fox News legacy media outlet over the weekend. According to Nielsen Media Research, Trump’s appearance on NBC News’ Meet the Press with Kristen Welker brought 2.914 total viewers and 569,000 viewers in the Adults 25-54 demo to…
Donald Trump’s love/hate relationship with Fox News Media was all love on Thursday night. The president-elect received the inaugural Patriot of the Year award during Fox Nation’s sixth annual Patriot Awards ceremony, held in Brookville, NY. Chants of “USA!” echoed inside the Tilles Center for Performing Arts as Trump walked onto the stage and was…
President-elect Donald Trump will break his extended hiatus from non-Fox News legacy media outlets this weekend. With one month to go before he re-enters the Oval Office, Trump is set to speak with NBC News’ Kristen Welker on this Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press. It’s his first network interview since Election Night, when the…
Stop us if this scenario sounds familiar: A closely-watched election; voters split along party–and racial–lines; misinformation circulated as journalism; and an undercurrent of violence that grows stronger as voters head to the polls. That may sound like the presidential election cycle Americans just lived through, but those same events played out over 126 years ago…
Stop us if this scenario sounds familiar: A closely-watched election; voters split along party–and racial–lines; misinformation circulated as journalism; and an undercurrent of violence that grows stronger as voters head to the polls. That may sound like the presidential election cycle Americans just lived through, but those same events played out over 126 years ago…
With Karoline Leavitt joining President-elect Donald Trump’s administration as White House press secretary, press briefings might look slightly different in 2025. At 27, Leavitt will be the youngest person to serve in that role and she has signaled that she will approach the entire operation differently. During an interview with Sean Hannity on Tuesday night,…
Karoline Leavitt will be the new White House press secretary when Donald Trump takes office in January. At 27, she’ll be the youngest person to serve in that role, but she’s familiar with the job, having worked as an assistant press secretary for Kayleigh McEnany during the president-elect’s first term. Leavitt was also part of…
This is TVNewser’s basic cable network ranker and cable news report for the week of Nov. 11, 2024. The viewership wave that followed President-elect Donald Trump’s Election Night victory greatly benefited Fox News as the network crested to ratings high. And viewers have continued to stay tuned to Fox News as the new administration takes…
The Morning Joe team kick-started their own news cycle on Monday when co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski revealed that they’d booked a private sit-down interview with Donald Trump over the weekend. It was the duo’s first in-person meeting with the president-elect in seven years and the first contact they’d had since Scarborough called Trump…
Now we know how Morning Joe duo Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski spent their weekend. The co-hosts of MSNBC’s morning show flew down to Florida for their first face-to-face encounter with President-elect Donald Trump in seven years. “We talked about a lot of issues,” Scarborough said at the top of Monday’s show, referencing subjects like…
Brendan Carr has been chosen as the next FCC commissioner by President-Elect Donald Trump. “Commissioner Carr is a warrior for Free Speech, and has fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans’ Freedoms, and held back our Economy,” Trump said in a statement announcing the news. “He will end the regulatory onslaught that has…
Throughout history, emerging trends in mass media have shaped election outcomes. The rise of TV in 1960 influenced perceptions of who won the first televised debate between Kennedy and Nixon. In 2008, Barack Obama’s campaign first channeled the emerging power of social media to crowdsource funding and engage a younger, more diverse population of voters,…
Don Lemon announced his departure from X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday. “It’s time for me to leave the platform,” the former CNN anchor said in a video posted to his official account. “I once believe that it was a place for honest debate and discussion, transparency, and free speech,” Lemon added. “But I now feel…
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth is his pick to run the Department of Defense. As a result of this nomination, Hegseth will depart his Fox News role immediately. “Pete Hegseth has been an exceptional host on Fox & Friends and Fox Nation and a best-selling author for…
America went to the polls one week ago today and while experts initially predicted a deadlocked race, a clear winner emerged by the early morning hours. President-elect Donald Trump declared victory at 2:24 a.m. ET on Nov. 7 buoyed by news outlets like NewsNation and Fox News calling the race in his favor. Other outlets…
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