Why the updated ABC News iPad app changes by time of day
Building a good app starts with asking yourself the right questions. The most fundamental one: What does my audience want? That’s the problem that people at ABC News have tried to solve since launching...
View ArticleABC News apologizes for speculation that theater shooter James Holmes linked...
Politico | Mediaite | Breitbart.com During live coverage of the Aurora, Colo., theater shooting Friday morning, ABC News’ Brian Ross suggested the shooter, Jim Holmes, may be affiliated with the...
View ArticleABC News inaccurately reported that Tony Scott had inoperable brain cancer
ABC News | Deadline | The New York Times Citing “a source close to him,” ABC News reported Monday that producer Tony Scott “had inoperable brain cancer,” a possible explanation for his suicide on...
View ArticleAfter Tony Scott error, will news orgs now think twice about following ABC...
Earlier today ABC News reported that Diana Nyad was pulled from the water during her attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. After a Poynter colleague tweeted the story, she received a DM from another...
View ArticleABC News wants to talk to Tony Scott’s family before deciding about retraction
ABC is waiting to hear back from Tony Scott’s family or a family representative before determining whether its initial report about Scott was incorrect, a network spokesperson told Poynter. Relying on...
View ArticleABC News still waiting to hear from Tony Scott’s family before addressing...
Poynter.org | ABC News | Los Angeles Times ABC News still hasn’t confirmed whether Tony Scott had inoperable brain cancer, despite reporting that he did and then acknowledging doubts about the accuracy...
View ArticleBeef Products Inc. sues ABC News for defamation
Associated Press | Newsbusters Beef Products Inc. is suing ABC News for defamation, saying the network’s coverage of “pink slime” misled consumers. The company has accused ABC of publishing “false and...
View ArticleOne year in, ABC/Yahoo news partnership holds largest Web audience
The partnership between ABC News and Yahoo News is reaching the largest digital audience in America as it celebrates its first anniversary. In October 2011, Yahoo and ABC announced they would share...
View ArticleTwo months after Tony Scott’s suicide, ABC News retracts story claiming he...
ABC News | Poynter | The Hollywood Reporter When director Tony Scott committed suicide in August, ABC News incorrectly reported that he had inoperable brain cancer. Even though the Los Angeles County...
View ArticleJake Tapper leaves ABC to anchor show for CNN
ABC | CNN ABC News White House correspondent Jake Tapper is moving to CNN. At the foot of an ABC News announcement about re-assignments in its D.C. bureau, ABC News President Ben Sherwood writes: Jake...
View ArticleRobin Roberts returns to ‘Good Morning America’
‘Good Morning America’ | The New York Times Robin Roberts arrived at work Wednesday morning, passing through a gantlet of fist-bumping colleagues. Five months ago, the ‘Good Morning America’ anchor had...
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Jeff Zeleny leaves New York Times, joins ABC News
Jeff Zeleny leaves New York Times, joins ABC News as senior Washington correspondent… Read more
View ArticleABC, CBS and other networks take second swing at Aereo
The Wrap | New York Times Aereo’s honeymoon is over, as broadcast networks re-filed their petitions for an injunction this morning. As The Wrap reports, ABC, CBS, NBC Universal and Fox Television...
View ArticleHow to tweet that you’re leaving The New York Times
Brian Stelter announced Tuesday that he plans to leave The New York Times for CNN: Yep, I have some personal news to share today… — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 12, 2013 I’m joining @CNN as...
View ArticleForget the hotels in Sochi, journalists should worry about getting hacked
NBC News | ABC News On Tuesday, while the rest of us were having fun watching journalists grapple with hotel conditions in Sochi, NBC News was getting hacked. On purpose. ABC reported on the threat on...
View ArticleABC News says Center for Public Integrity should share Pulitzer for...
ABC News President Ben Sherwood sent a four-page letter to WIlliam Buzenberg, executive director of The Center for Public Integrity, asking CPI to share credit for the Pulitzer Prize for investigative...
View ArticleContest entries from ABC, Center for Public Integrity highlight their division
On the same day that ABC News and The Center for Public Integrity won yet another national journalism award for exposing how coal miners were being unjustly denied black-lung benefits, the spat between...
View ArticleDespite ABC News/CPI blowup, here’s how news partnerships can work
Journalism organizations might get discouraged about joining partnerships after the public meltdown of the partnership between ABC News and The Center for Public Integrity this week. CPI’s reporter...
View ArticleCNN Digital sees big jump in unique visitors during coverage of Malaysian...
CNN The mystery surrounding missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 — which CNN covered exhaustively on TV for weeks after the disappearance — appears to have been good for CNN’s online business, too....
View ArticleThat time Peter Jennings dropped off a package for Newsweek
Sacha Lecca, who is Rolling Stone’s deputy photography editor, tells Jim Colton about his early days at Newsweek: Last but not least, I remember when Newsweek contract photographer Peter Turnley was...
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