The guide from Northeastern urges stations to hire a digital content creator to spearhead digital strategy and coach their peers on how to bring their reporting to audiences online.

NEW YORK—Consumers of local broadcast news continue to deem it as a valuable source of information—whether it’s political races, local sports teams or weather—regardless of accessing it on their TVs ...

Sinclair disclosed the talks in an SEC filing Monday. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Another major deal for local TV stations may be brewing, with Sinclair Broadcast Group (and its 185 or so local ...

Gray Media and the E.W. Scripps Co., two of the largest U.S. owners of local TV stations, have engineered a swap of stations in five small and mid-sized markets. The move will create new duopolies, ...

After years in development, a programmatic solution for buying and selling local linear advertising is finally ready to launch. “We have a newly formed partnership with ITN that is going to change the ...

When it comes to local news, the elephant in the room is your local TV station. For too long, print and digital outlets have written off television news as shallow — obsessed with crime and spectacle ...

One of my favorite Nieman Lab predictions in recent years came from Nik Usher, associate professor of communication studies at the University of San Diego. The prediction, “The future-of-journalism ...

Together, the two TV station groups, Sinclair and Nexstar, control more than 20 percent of ABC’s local affiliates. By Benjamin Mullin Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show is returning to ABC on Tuesday ...

Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group, Inc. has sold 10 local TV stations to Gray Media for $171 million. The deal, which Gray expects to close in the fourth quarter subject to regulatory approval and ...

Sinclair and Nexstar have been pre-empting Mr. Kimmel’s show since he returned this week. By Benjamin Mullin Sinclair and Nexstar, the two large local TV owners that dropped “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” after ...