Jeremy Barr
Washington Post
New York, NY, United States
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Fox News is bleeding viewers at 8 p.m. after ousting Tucker Carlson
Carlson averaged more than 3 million viewers in his final week on Fox News. After he was fired, the time slot drew only 1.77 million viewers. → Read More
Is Sean Hannity a journalist? Role of hosts is key in Fox News lawsuit.
It’s an issue that could cut both ways for Fox News in the $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems, → Read More
NBC, MSNBC employees plan walkout in protest of layoffs
The strike of NBC News digital staffers is the latest labor action at a major news organization as the media industry faces economic headwinds and job cuts. → Read More
An investigative reporter was slain. What about his unfinished story?
Las Vegas journalist Jeff German was killed before finishing a story about a Ponzi scheme targeting Mormons. So a Washington Post reporter stepped in to help. → Read More
News organizations grapple with showing horrific Nichols, Pelosi videos
Television networks chose to air footage of police officers beating Tyre Nichols and a hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, but with copious warnings. → Read More
So much for prime time. Fox’s 5 p.m. chat fest is the new king of cable news
How "The Five" surpassed Tucker Carlson in the ratings: It’s the "Avengers of Fox News" — but at an hour that reflects the increasing dominance of older viewers. → Read More
Suzanne Malveaux is leaving CNN after 20 years
Malveaux, the long-term partner of White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, will focus on a new collaboration with the family of the late Nelson Mandela. → Read More
CNN has barred its New Year’s Eve hosts from getting sloshed
The sloppy special is a hallmark but new boss Chris Licht wants everyone to sober up. → Read More
T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach on hiatus from ‘GMA3’ amid relationship news
ABC News president Kimberly Godwin called revelations of the relationship between the "Good Morning America" hosts a "distraction." → Read More
Broadcast networks take a pass on Trump campaign announcement
ABC, NBC, CBS stuck to entertainment shows while Fox News and CNN carried much of the Trump speech but not all of it. → Read More
Shepard Smith will depart CNBC after his show gets canceled
Network canceled “The News with Shepard Smith” anchored by the Fox News veteran. → Read More
Two Fox journalists were killed in Ukraine. A widow still searches for answers.
Fox News's Pierre Zakrzewski and Oleksandra Kuvshynova died and Benjamin Hall was severely injured. Michelle Ross-Stanton tried to reconstruct what happened. → Read More
The meteoric rise of CNN’s Kaitlan Collins
Kaitlan Collins, CNN's prodigy on the White House beat, advances to a bigger challenge: boosting the lagging ratings for CNN’s morning show. → Read More
Journalists want to know: Can we use your disaster photo, please?
Asking for free photos to put on the news is a timeless journalistic tradition, but social media has exposed the sausage-making process for all to see. → Read More
‘Is there a purge?’: John Harwood’s CNN exit viewed as strategy shift
Harwood's parting words defended an outspoken kind of journalism that CNN insiders think has fallen out of favor under new boss Chris Licht. → Read More
Vance, DeSantis rally puts ‘highly unusual’ restrictions on press
Turning Point USA wants journalists to potentially share and explain any footage they take. → Read More
Alex Wagner’s challenge at MSNBC: Keeping the Rachel Maddow superfans
In an unusual arrangement, Wagner will take over Maddow’s old 9 p.m. slot four nights each week, starting Tuesday, while the star sticks to Mondays only. → Read More
Chris Cuomo is returning to cable news, but on a much smaller channel
The former CNN host, who was fired in December, is joining the upstart channel NewsNation in prime time this fall. → Read More
MSNBC to replace Rachel Maddow with Alex Wagner four nights a week
The longtime network journalist will take over its most prized timeslot after Maddow scaled back her involvement. → Read More
Joe Kahn is now editing the New York Times. Don’t expect a revolution.
Joe Kahn, who succeeds Dean Baquet as executive editor, holds forth on labels, social media bubbles, threats to democracy and why not to expect big changes at the Times. → Read More