Eric Deggans
Mar. 20, 2013
10:12 am
Despite his history as an aggressive and sometimes fiery advocate, outgoing CNN analyst Roland Martin is surprisingly reserved when discussing the cable newschannel’s decision not to renew his contract after six years as a high-profile analyst, often speaking on black … Read more
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Andrew Beaujon
Nov. 19, 2012
3:50 pm
Pew
During the last week of the 2012 presidential campaign, Fox News and MSNBC both took a dramatically negative tone toward President Obama and Mitt Romney, respectively.
68 percent of MSNBC's coverage of Romney was negative during from Oct. 29-Nov. 5, up from 57 percent in October. That doesn't sound too surprising, except that Pew found 5 percent of MSNBC's Romney coverage was positive from Oct. 1-28, while it found
no positive coverage of Romney when it looked at the final week's stories. It also found no negative coverage of Obama.
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Andrew Beaujon
Nov. 15, 2012
3:21 pm
Maynard Institute
Trymaine Lee, the Huffington Post reporter who helped move the Trayvon Martin story into the mainstream, is
taking a job at MSNBC.
Reached by phone, Lee told Poynter he was taking most of November off to spend time with his daughter, who was born in August. His exact role at MSNBC "will be tightened" after he gets there, he said, but he expects to focus on what he said were "issues that are important to progressives," such as gun rights and gun control.
As a police reporter at the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Lee was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its Hurricane Katrina coverage. He also contributed reporting to The New York Times' Pultizer Prize-winning coverage of Gov. Eliot Spitzer's downfall, Richard Prince writes.
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Jeff Sonderman
Sep. 11, 2012
12:09 pm
Today is, of course, the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It was the biggest news event of a generation, but particularly iconic for television news.
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- MSNBC re-airs the original Today Show coverage of 9/11.
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Craig Silverman
Dec. 19, 2011
1:36 pm
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Jeff Sonderman
Dec. 14, 2011
11:55 am
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Julie Moos
Sep. 27, 2011
7:45 am
The New York Times
Anderson Cooper is helping CNN at 8 p.m., when the network's viewership is up 38 percent over last year. At MSNBC, Lawrence O'Donnell now occupies the 8 p.m. slot previously held by Keith Olbermann, who --
now at Current TV -- is competing against O'Donnell. O'Donnell's audience is down 35 percent year to year, leading in to Rachel Maddow's show, which has dropped 15 percent this September compared to last. MSNBC denies the decline is related to
Olbermann's contentious departure and believes it's seasonal. “I’m confident that we will increase our ratings as politics become the dominant story over the next year," MSNBC president Phil Griffin told Bill Carter. Here's another explanation:
“MSNBC may be rediscovering the downside of partisan news,” said Chris Daly, a professor of journalism at Boston University. “That is, the size of your audience is essentially cajoled by the size of the electorate that already agrees with you.”
Related: CBS wins most news & documentary Emmys
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Steve Myers
Aug. 26, 2011
1:08 pm
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Aug. 23, 2011
4:41 pm
Mediaite
MSNBC announced today that it has officially handed its 6 p.m. weekday slot to the Rev. Al Sharpton. His show, called "PoliticsNation," begins Aug. 29 and will feature discussions about major news stories. Reports of Sharpton's possible hiring at MSNBC stirred some controversy. Some suggested
it could create a conflict of interest, given that he lobbied the FCC to approve the Comcast-NBC Universal deal last year.
Black journalists also criticized the move, saying MSNBC is one of many cable networks that has hired black people based on their celebrity status rather than their journalistic skills.
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Steve Myers
July 28, 2011
10:42 am
New York TimesBrian Stelter describes how the Rev. Al Sharpton actively lobbied the FCC last year to approve the Comcast-NBC Universal deal. Now MSNBC is thinking of making him a permanent host for the 6 p.m. slot. "Rarely, if ever, has a cable news channel employed a host who has previously campaigned for the business goals of the channel’s parent company," Stelter writes. "But as channels like MSNBC have moved to more opinionated formats, they have exposed themselves to potential conflicts." Sharpton told Stelter that there was no connection between the two roles, noting that when he lobbied for the merger there were no open positions. ||
Pulling punches: Hiring someone who has pledged never to criticize President Barack Obama "
would be like hiring a physician who vows never to treat any diseases," writes Glenn Greenwald. ||
Earlier: African American journalists criticize MSNBC for possible Sharpton hire.
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