The editor of the Washington Post‘s opinion section said that he would step down on August 31, after leading the section for just over a year during an overhaul directed by owner Jeff Bezos. Opinion Editor Adam O’Neal wrote in a memo to staffers that while “this is not an easy decision, I am…

Cecilia Vega, one of the 60 Minutes correspondents fired in a management overhaul of the show earlier this year, followed up on her claim that she was instructed to insert political bias into stories. Vega appeared Thursday at a session at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists…

Donald Trump is expected to speak around 9 p.m. ET on Friday at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, rescheduled after the association’s traditional April event was abruptly stopped after a shooting in which a gunman breached a security checkpoint. At the time, Trump had called for a new…

FCC chairman Brendan Carr said that he expected that ABC’s decision not to carry President Donald Trump’s speech last week to be part of the agency’s early review of its broadcast licenses. During the speech itself, Trump said that ABC and NBC, which did not carry the address, should lose their b…

ESPN is implementing layoffs tied to a deal it closed earlier this year with the NFL. Chairman Jimmy Pitaro confirmed the cutbacks in a memo to employees Tuesday (read it in full below). The reductions primarily involve behind-the-scenes production staffers, but a handful of on-air personalities…

Craig Melvin addressed Thursday’s incident in which an intruder accessed the Rockefeller Center studio of NBC’s Today, telling viewers Friday that he was “safe and sound.” Melvin said, “You may have heard that unfortunately, an intruder made his way into an unauthorized area here in Studio 1A…

UPDATED with more details: ABC and NBC stations owned by Sinclair Broadcasting ended up airing President Donald Trump’s primetime speech on Thursday, after ABC News and NBC News said earlier in the day that they would only carry the address on their streaming sites. Trump’s address tonight began…

UPDATED with CNN plans, 3:34 PM: ABC News and NBC News said Thursday afternoon that they will carry Donald Trump’s primetime address tonight only on their respective streaming sites, ABC News Live and NBC News Now, and not their broadcast networks. CBS News has yet to reveal its coverage plans…

Cesar Conde, chairman of NBCUniversal News Group, says soccer has indisputably reached “critical mass” in the United States. One sign, he said, is how many non-Spanish speakers have “woken up” to NBCU’s coverage on Telemundo and Peacock. Speaking at Telemundo’s Playmakers event at NBCU’s 30 Rock…

Bill Ritter, an anchor for WABC-TV New York’s ABC7 Eyewitness News since 1999, announced Friday during his staple 6 p.m. newscast that he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and is stepping down from the role. Ritter, a San Diego native whose journalism career started in Los Angeles first with…

Lesley Stahl says that Paramount CEO David Ellison assured her in a call Sunday that 60 Minutes will have editorial independence. Stahl, the longest-serving correspondent on the show, told the New York Times on Tuesday about the conversation. She also relayed Ellison’s comments to the…

The 2026 World Cup, jointly hosted by the U.S., Canada and Mexico, is the biggest yet. The 48-team tournament, comprising 104 games, kicks off Thursday and anticipation is growing. But, it has been a contentious build-up. Exorbitant ticket prices and transport costs and the U.S.’s denial of visas to fans…