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David Muir hits the five-year mark at “World News Tonight with a milestone that’s increasingly rare in television. His average audience is actually larger than it used be.The Nielsen company says the ABC newscast finished its year-long season last week with an average of 8.6 million viewers a night.ABC is finishing the season with its largest lead over NBC in 23 years, and 27 years for CBS. It’s the third consecutive year that ABC has won the ratings competition.The evening news may not be trendy in a media world where everyone is staring at their phones, but the networks’ three programs collectively usually reach more than 20 million people each night. … [Read more...] about ABC’s Muir hits five-year mark at ‘World News’ on the top

By Jessica Heslam | [email protected] | Boston HeraldPUBLISHED: May 6, 2019 at 11:17 pm | UPDATED: May 7, 2019 at 7:20 am Long gone are the days when marquee anchors dominated the local TV newscasts — and the network evening shows are following suit. Former WHDH-TV newsman Jeff Glor is the latest casualty, ousted from anchoring the ratings-troubled “CBS Evening News” after a mere 18 month-run. Glor is being replaced by morning co-anchor Norah O’Donnell and the evening news operation is moving to Washington, D.C. “The anchors at the network level are suffering the same problem as anchors on the local level, which is a media fragmentation,” said Susan Walker, a veteran TV news producer and professor at Boston University’s journalism department. “The role of the anchor might become legacy because their ratings have been going down consistently and their demographic is going scarily up,” Walker told me Monday. “The … [Read more...] about Anchors fading as nightly news audience shifts

David Carary Associated Press National Writer Published 1:05 PM EDT Apr 15, 2019 Jonathan Wolman, who over more than 45 years in journalism served as editor and publisher of The Detroit News and previously worked as a reporter, Washington bureau chief and executive editor at The Associated Press, died Monday in Detroit. He was 68. His family told the News that Wolman died of complications from pancreatic cancer. Wolman had been editor and publisher of the News since 2007, running the newspaper during a financially challenging period that included staff layoffs, a cutback to only two days a week of home delivery, and a relocation from the massive headquarters building that it had occupied for nearly a century. However, Detroit — even as it careened into and then out of bankruptcy in 2013-14 — has survived as one of a shrinking number of U.S. cities with more than one major daily newspaper. The News has a joint operating agreement with its rival, the Detroit Free … [Read more...] about Jonathan Wolman, Detroit News editor, dies at 68