By Ted Johnson
07.04.2020 - 20:35 / variety.com
By Brian Steinberg
Senior TV Editor
Ellison Barber, a general-assignment reporter for Fox News Channel for the past three years, is moving to NBC News.
In a memo sent to staffers Tuesday, Janelle Rodriguez, senior vice president of editorial for NBC News, said Barber would cover international and domestic breaking news. “She has been at the heart of investigative stories around the globe, from the District of Columbia to Colombia,” Rodriguez said to employees. Barber is expected to be based
By Brian Steinberg
By Brian Steinberg
On Sunday, Steve Aoki assembled five of the collaborators from his just-out album Neon Future IV for a dinner party livestream.
On Sunday, Steve Aoki assembled five of the collaborators from his just-out album Neon Future IV for a dinner party livestream.Sporting a suit and streaming from his house in Las Vegas, Aoki spoke with Nick Carter, Lay Zhang, Maluma, Agnez Mo and will.i.am -- who beamed in from China, Colombia, Indonesia and throughout the United States.
By Brian Steinberg
Helen Skelton has revealed she broke Nikki Sanderson's nose in a fight on a SAS: Who Dares Wins.The 36 year old explained that she was made to fight her co-star on the E4 show, where contestants are put through a series of gruelling challenges, but admitted it was "tough" because she gets along with Nikki, also 36. However, once the Blue Peter presenter took a few hits herself, she was ready to pack on a few punches, leading to the Coronation Street star's broken nose.
By Ted Johnson
By Brian Steinberg
By Dino-Ray Ramos
The Fox News Channel is facing questions about its coverage of the novel coronavirus, which hosts like Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Jeanine Pirro initially downplayed as a cudgel to "bludgeon" President Donald Trump politically. But the network's advertisers don't have much to say about the coverage.
Showing how much punch can be put in an unconventional indie, Los Conductos by Colombian director, writer and editor Camilo Restrepo strings together simple visuals to follow a runaway from a religious cult of “the chosen.” Hiding out in empty warehouses, the young man reviews the events that led up to his life in a group from which there is no escape, and his disillusionment with its charismatic but criminal leader.
Amy Listerman, chief financial officer at Fox News Media, will step down from her role, and will be replaced by Joe Dorrego, a Fox Corp. executive who will become both chief financial officer and chief operating officer at the company, which is the critical financial engine of its parent company.
By Denise Petski
NBC News will kick off a new show next week that’s scheduled to appear for the next three Tuesdays. But there is some sense among executives that it could keep going for weeks.
In 2018 and 2019, booking Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was a top priority for both producers and anchors at Fox News Channel, so much so that one Fox News producer sought to reassure DeVos' press secretary that host Maria Bartiromo would go easy on the secretary if she sat for an interview, which she did six days later. On Nov.
By Ted Johnson
NBC News has confirmed that a staff member who had been diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus has passed away.