Outlets hurt by dwindling public interest in news in 2021
The metrics are ugly for many television, digital and print news organizations: after record-setting engagement numbers in 2020, many people are cutting back on news consumption.
Media outlets recall country's unity after Sept. 11 attacks
Media outlets that often spend hours each day exploring the country's differences paused to mark the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by recalling almost wistfully the sense of common purpose that united Americans in the aftermath.
On TV, 9/11 was last huge story for โBig 3โ network anchors
Millions of Americans were guided through the horror of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by one of three men on television news โ Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather.
Tom Brokaw says he's retiring from NBC News after 55 years
FILE - "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw delivers his closing remarks during his final broadcast, in New York on Dec. 1, 2004. Brokaw says he is retiring from NBC News after working at the network for 55 years. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)NEW YORK โ Longtime NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, once television news' most popular broadcaster as he told viewers about the biggest events of that late 20th Century, said Friday that he's retiring from television. In 2013, Brokaw was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer that affects the bone marrow. Brokaw said the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 400,000 Americans in the past year, was the country's greatest test since the Civil War.
Networks cut away from Trump's White House address
NEW YORK โ ABC, CBS and NBC all cut away from President Donald Trump on Thursday as he spoke from the White House to make an unfounded accusation that the presidential election was being stolen from him. Trump was more subdued Thursday, yet offered a litany of complaints about โsuppressionโ polls, mail-in voting and fraud that he never specified. Cordes said there is no indication of a substantive number of illegal votes cast, and said Trump's reference to votes arriving late was โanother falsehood.โMSNBC cut away from Trump to anchor Brian Williams. โThere are no illegal votes that we know of, there has been no Trump victory that we know of.โAfter ABC ended its coverage, the networkโs White House correspondent, Jonathan Karl, also said there was no evidence of illegal votes. But especially in this election.โWhile CNN kept Trump on the air, a chyron displayed under him said, โWithout any evidence, Trump says he's being cheated.โAnchor Jake Tapper looked weary when it was over.