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UPDATE: NBC News and MSNBC will simulcast CNN’s presidential debate next week, meaning that the event will be seen across all major broadcast and cable networks. NBC News’ Lester Holt and Savannah Guthrie will anchor analysis immediately following the simulcast of the CNN event at 9 p.m. ET. In…

UPDATED, Friday: Stacia Deshishku, who has been executive editor and senior vice president of ABC News, is planning to depart the network, according to a source familiar with plans. Her exit was announced in a morning staff call on Friday. Deshishku is one of the high-profile exits since the…

Robert Winnett will not be joining the Washington Post as editor this fall, amid the fallout following a staff revolt over CEO Will Lewis’ abrupt change in newsroom leadership and reports that have raised ethical concerns over his and Winnett’s previous journalism practices in the UK. Winnett, deputy…

Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be the only two candidates participating in next week’s CNN presidential debate, the network said, as independent Robert Kennedy Jr. failed to qualify. The qualification window closed just after midnight today, the network said. To qualify, candidates had to be on…

Disney’s now-abandoned Florida relocation plan for staffers has created some pretty dark legal skies. More than a year after the once again Bob Iger-run Disney dropped its Bob Chapek-era initiative to consolidate some California operations and employees in a new campus in Orlando's Lake Nona area, a…

David Zaslav can now boast of having a former Press Secretary to the President of the United States among his corporate inner circle. However, even with the trophy of Robert Gibbs now on his shelf, the Warner Bros Discovery CEO may do well to remember the transition from DC to Hollywood has proved full of…

PBS’s A Capitol Fourth is returning for the 44th year, with Alfonso Ribeiro hosting the annual Independence Day event on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol. The 90-minute celebration, to air at 8 p.m. ET on July 4, will feature performances by Smokey Robinson; Fantasia; Darren Criss; Sheila E.; Fitz…

The White House in the past week has railed against so-called “cheap fakes,” videos edited to look as if President Joe Biden has “frozen” or was wandering away at major public events, while media outlets amplifying the moments have done little to add context. The videos include one at a D-Day…

Joe Biden’s campaign announced a $50 million ad buy for this month, including a spot that contrasts the president with “convicted criminal” Donald Trump. The spot, “Character Matters,” will run on general market television and connected TV in all battleground states, and on national cable, according…

Fox News has promoted Jacqui Heinrich and Peter Doocy to the titles of senior White House correspondent. Heinrich was named White House correspondent in 2021, and has since traveled with President Joe Biden to 17 countries and covered the major stories of the administration. She has been on the board…

UPDATED: The White House again is pushing back at the New York Post over a video that the Murdoch-owned publication claimed showed President Joe Biden freezing up at the end of his blockbuster fundraiser in Los Angeles with former President Barack Obama. “Biden appears to freeze up, has to be led off…

UPDATED: President Joe Biden’s star-filled fundraiser in Los Angeles — in which he took part in a conversation with former President Barack Obama and Jimmy Kimmel — is now expected to raise at least $30 million, according to a source close to the campaign. During the roughly 40-minute sit down…