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NY Anchor Yanked Amid Wife-Beating Charges

Dominic Carter calls case 'misunderstanding' as wife retracts story

Oct 30, 09 3:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - A New York local news station's political anchor, Dominic Carter, was pulled off the air and placed on indefinite leave as his trial for domestic violence began yesterday. The NY1 anchor is charged with assault for allegedly beating his wife while calling her a "dumb, stupid, project bitch" at... More »

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New York City • domestic violence • assault • domestic abuse • news anchor • Dominic Carter

FREUDIAN SLIPS

 Another NYC Anchor 
 Swears On-Air 

Bernie Kerik, once a 'top cop,' gets a more anatomical name

Oct 21, 09 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - After one anchor's angry F-bomb and another's strange chicken-copulation metaphor, a third New York local newscaster accidentally slipped in some off-color language last night. WABC anchor Bill Ritter referred to Bernie Kerik, ex-head of the NYPD and briefly nominated to run the Homeland Security Department, as "former New York... More »

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Bernard Kerik • New York • WABC • swearing • news anchor • television news


 Against Odds, 
 Katie Couric 
 Perseveres 
 at CBS 

After trying to change 'too much too soon,' Couric finally seems comfortable

Sep 21, 09 12:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Last year, it seemed Katie Couric’s days in the CBS anchor chair were numbered. Now, she not only plans to stay there until her contract expires in 2011, she's starting a weekly Charlie Rose-esque webcast—and her destinations post-Evening News could include 60 Minutes or CNN. “Her... More »

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Al Gore • Katie Couric • CBS • webcast • news anchor • CBS Evening News • Hugh Jackman


 Fox Anchor 
 Apologizes 
 to Chickens 
 Everywhere 

Ernie Anastos sorry for laying on-air egg

Sep 18, 09 4:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Fox anchor who stirred up a fricassé when he almost suggested a co-worker go pluck a chicken has apologized for his on-air bleep, reports AP. "I misspoke," said veteran New York broadcaster Ernie Anastos. "I apologize for my remarks to anyone who may have been offended.... More »

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television • profanity • obscenity • broadcasting • anchor • chicken • news anchor • Fox TV • Ernie Anastos • weather forecaster

 F&#% a Cluck: 
 NY Fox Anchor 
 Bleeps Big Time 

Ernie Anastos has choice on-air suggestion for weatherman

Sep 17, 09 3:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - A veteran New York Fox TV anchor is likely in for a peck of trouble after making an obscene suggestion on air about what the weather forecaster should do to a chicken. "It takes a tough man to make a tender forecast," Ernie Anastos quipped to weatherman Nick... More »

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New York City • New York • obscenity • news anchor • Fox TV • Ernie Anastos • Rosanna Scotto

commentary

 Sawyer Nabbed 
 Anchor Job 
 by 'Waiting 
 Around' 

Passage of time has 'smoothed bumps on her resumé'

Sep 6, 09 6:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - What Diane Sawyer has achieved as the second female solo news anchor is “more subtle” than Katie Couric’s ascendancy, writes Alessandra Stanley in the New York Times. Sawyer “is a gorgeous, glamorous television personality who got to the top job by waiting around,” Stanley notes. It... More »

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Katie Couric • women • ABC News • Diane Sawyer • news anchor • television news

OPINION

 Dear Diane, 
 Save the News— 
 Nix the Anchor Job 

Sawyer shouldn't take post with 'marginal' journalistic worth

Sep 4, 09 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nightly network news is fading into irrelevance—and if Diane Sawyer wants to make a difference in the media, she should turn down Charlie Gibson’s job so ABC can pay for some real reporting, writes Jack Shafer for Slate. The broadcasts have essentially become infotainment, an expert says, “... More »

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media • journalism • ABC News • Diane Sawyer • news anchor • reporters • Charlie Gibson

(Newser) - Diane Sawyer finally has the job she’s been waiting for, Rebecca Dana writes for the Daily Beast: “anchor of World News, the once towering, now considerably diminished evening broadcast.” But her renewed rivalry with Katie Couric and her struggle to hold on to Charles Gibson’s ratings... More »

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Katie Couric • Good Morning America • CBS News • ABC News • Diane Sawyer • news anchor • CBS Evening News • Charles Gibson • David Westin • World News

 Poll: Stewart the New Cronkite 


Jul 23, 09 10:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - In an absurd world, maybe the only people we can trust are the comedians. A Time.com poll asked readers who the most trusted newscaster in America is, now that Walter Cronkite has passed on. The overwhelming response? Jon Stewart. The Daily Show maestro took 44% of the 9,409... More »

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media • Katie Couric • Jon Stewart • Brian Williams • Walter Cronkite • news anchor • poll numbers • Charlie Gibson

(Newser) - Yeah, he was the most trusted man in America and all that, but Boing Boing points out a different reason we're going to miss Walter Cronkite: The man had rhythm. "True fact, Walter Cronkite was a hot drummer," the site quotes John Perry Barlow, the Grateful Dead lyricist,... More »

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obituary • drums • Walter Cronkite • news anchor • John Perry Barlow • Mike Gordon

tributes

 Cronkite 'Spoke for the Nation' 


Jul 18, 09 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The tributes are pouring in for Walter Cronkite:
  • Howard Kurtz, Washington Post: His "passing, in the end, is the passing of an era, an era of black-and-white television, of mass audiences, of a slower time when the country waited for the headlines at 6:30 in the
... More »

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journalism • journalist • Walter Cronkite • news anchor • CBS Evening News

(Newser) - Walter Cronkite, the CBS anchorman who revolutionized television news for a generation, died today at age 92, CBS News reports. He had suffered a long illness and was at home in New York with his family. Cronkite helmed the CBS Evening News throughout the 1960s and '70s, guiding America through... More »

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obituary • journalist • Walter Cronkite • news anchor • CBS Evening News

 Cronkite 'Gravely Ill' 


Jun 18, 09 4:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Walter Cronkite, the legendary CBS News anchor and reporter, is “gravely ill,” sources tell Mediabistro columnist Gail Shister. The network began updating its obituary package for the 92-year-old last week, one added. Newsday’s Verne Gay writes that he, too, has heard the rumors: “Walter could be... More »

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illness • CBS News • Walter Cronkite • news anchor

Right Rips Smith for Warning on Right-Wing Violence

Conservatives call for head of Fox anchor

Jun 12, 09 2:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Conservatives are calling for the head of Shepard Smith after the Fox anchor suggested that the Holocaust Museum shooting backs up a Homeland Security report warning of a rise in right-wing extremism, Gawker reports. Right-wing bloggers labeled Smith a "pompous elitist" and said he should be fired, while Rush... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • Holocaust Museum • Department of Homeland Security • Fox News • news anchor • Shepard Smith • right-wing extremism

LA Mayor Moves On to Another Anchor Gal Pal

Girlfriend filed story on Villaraigosa as recently as this weekend

Jun 2, 09 11:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two years after Antonio Villaraigosa had the affair with a local newscaster that led to the breakup of his 20-year marriage, the LA mayor has a new flame—yet another TV news anchor. Lu Parker, a former Miss USA contestant who reports for television station KTLA, has been dating Villaraigosa... More »

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Los Angeles • Antonio Villaraigosa • journalistic ethics • news anchor • television news

OPINION

Tough Times
Are Boon for
Couric's Ratings

Anchor has grown
into role at CBS, and more are watching

Jan 29, 09 12:38 PM CST
(Newser) - Katie Couric’s comforting style is perfect for tough times, or so a 5% uptick in the ratings for CBS’ Evening News suggests. In Couric’s hands, economic catastrophe, Mideast violence and terrorism become “news you can warm up to,” Tom Shales writes in the Washington Post. After... More »

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Katie Couric • journalism • TV ratings • news anchor • CBS Evening News • television personality

 Old Boys' 
 Networks 
 No More: 
 TV's New 
 Female Stars 


Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Campbell Brown 'redefining broadcast careers'

Dec 17, 08 12:14 PM CST
(Newser) - The world of television news can be a journalistic proving ground during tumultuous times, and three women have bubbled to the top of the white-guy-dominated realm. Vogue takes a look at one veteran and two up-and-comers who have caught the mag's eye:
  • Katie Couric—After months of ridicule and
... More »

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Katie Couric • MSNBC • Vogue • CNN • Election 2008 • news anchor • CBS Evening News • Rachel Maddow • Campbell Brown

Who's That
Guy on the
Local News?

TV stations replace veteran anchors with cheaper rookies

Dec 1, 08 8:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Across the country, star local news anchors are signing off for good, the New York Times reports, as local network affiliates look for ways to cut costs, and find big anchor salaries tempting targets. Newscasters with more than 20 years behind the desk have been dropped in Chicago, Houston,... More »

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local news • economy • news anchor

DNA Led Cops to Pressly Murder Suspect

Officials say forensics tie man to anchor's murder, teacher's rape

Nov 29, 08 5:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Police in Little Rock say forensic evidence led them to a suspect in the murder of news anchor Anne Pressly, reports KATV. A DNA sample from Pressly's home matched DNA found at the scene of an unsolved rape in Marianna, 90 miles away. Marianna police pointed investigators to rape suspect... More »

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Arkansas • murder • rape • forensics • Little Rock, Arkansas • DNA evidence • news anchor • Anne Pressly

Suspect Arrested in Murder of Ark. News Anchor

No clear motive in brutal home invasion

Nov 27, 08 9:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Police in Little Rock have arrested a suspect in the murder of Anne Pressly, reports KATV, where the popular anchorwoman worked. Curtis Lavell Vance, 28, was apprehended late last night, shortly after police named him as the suspect in the October slaying, and charged with capital murder. The police chief... More »

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crime • police • Arkansas • murder • Little Rock, Arkansas • news anchor • criminal charges • Anne Pressly

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