Dave Bauder stands for a portrait at the New York headquarters of The Associated Press on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

DAVID BAUDER

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FILE - Sportscaster Bryant Gumbel appears at the HBO 2015 Winter TCA in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 8, 2015. Gumbel is calling it quits in its 29th year of "Real Sports with Bryan Gumbel." The final, 90-minute episode premieres Tuesday at 10 p.m. Eastern. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

That’s a wrap: Bryant Gumbel and HBO’s ‘Real Sports’ air their last episode after 29 years

Bryant Gumbel’s “Real Sports” airs its final episode on HBO after 29 years this week, and an era in sports journalism ends with it.

FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Hialeah, Fla., Nov. 8, 2023. Even before the 2024 presidential primary, the attention of many political journalists has shifted to Jan. 20, 2025. There's been a flurry of recent stories about the implications of a second presidency for Trump, and his team's planning for Inauguration Day and beyond, with polls showing his continued dominance over Republican rivals and the likelihood of a close general election. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Journalists tackle a political what-if: What might a second Trump presidency look like?

No votes have been cast in the 2024 presidential race yet. But journalists have recently shifted their attention to Jan. 20, 2025.

FILE - Tucker Carlson speaks at the Turning Point Action conference, Saturday, July 15, 2023, in West Palm Beach, Fla. Carlson, the ousted Fox News host, announced Monday, Dec. 11, that he is starting his own streaming service, promising to “tell the unadorned truth” to fans for $72 a year. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Former Fox host Tucker Carlson is launching his own streaming network

Ousted Fox News host Tucker Carlson has announced he is starting his own streaming network. He announced Monday that he promises to “tell the unadorned truth” to fans for $72 a year.

FILE - Mariah Carey performs at the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square, Dec. 31, 2017, in New York. Billboard has posted a list of top seasonal hits since 2010, and Carey's “All I Want for Christmas is You” has been No. 1 for 57 of the 62 weeks it has run, said Gary Trust, chart director. The Luminate data company said the song peaked at 387 million streams in 2019, the song's 25th anniversary, although last year it had 353 million. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP, File)

Why Mariah Carey’s ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ became so popular — and stayed that way

Mariah Carey’s hit from 1994, has grown over the last three decades into the Christmas colossus.

FILE - Norman Lear, executive producer of the Pop TV series "One Day at a Time," poses for a portrait during the Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour on Jan. 13, 2020, in Pasadena, Calif. Lear, the writer, director and producer who revolutionized prime time television with such topical hits as "All in the Family" and “Maude” and propelled political and social turmoil into the once-insulated world of sitcoms, has died, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023.. He was 101. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

How Norman Lear changed television — and with it American life — in the 1970s

Norman Lear, who died this week at age 101, changed American life with the candor and comedy of his creations.

FILE - Megyn Kelly poses at The Hollywood Reporter's 25th annual Women in Entertainment Breakfast, Dec. 7, 2016, in Los Angeles. With the fourth Republican presidential primary debate scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, the young NewsNation television network will almost certainly reach the largest audience in its history. Yet with two of the three debate moderators associated with conservative media and not NewsNation, including podcast star Megyn Kelly, the event threatens to be at odds with the centrist image the network is trying to cultivate. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

The fourth GOP debate will be a key moment for the young NewsNation cable network

Republicans are scheduled for their fourth presidential debate this week, again minus Donald Trump. It’s a particularly big moment for the young NewsNation television network, which will almost certainly reach its largest audience ever.

FILE - A George Mason University fan holds up a Sports Illustrated magazine at a send off for the team, March 29, 2006, in Fairfax, Va. Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by being less than forthcoming about who or what is writing its stories. The website Futurism reported that the once-grand magazine used articles with “authors” who apparently don't exist, with photos generated by AI. The magazine denied claims that some articles themselves were AI-assisted, but has cut ties with a vendor it hired to produce the articles. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)

Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by an AI experiment gone wrong

Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by being less than forthcoming about who or what is writing its stories at the dawn of the artificial intelligence age.

FILE - A pressman pulls a copy of one of the final editions of the Rocky Mountain News off the press in the Washington Street Printing Plant of the Denver Newspaper Agency in Denver on Feb. 26, 2009. The decline of local news in the United States is speeding up despite attention paid to the issue, to the point where the nation has lost one-third of its newspapers and two-thirds of its newspaper journalists since 2005. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Decline in local news outlets is accelerating despite efforts to help

A new report shows that the decline of local news outlets is accelerating despite efforts to help, and more people are aware of the dire problems facing the industry.

FILE - Palestinian kids, who were displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, watch a phone in a UNDP-provided tent camp in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. While journalists' access to the war in Gaza is limited, a flood of video from all sorts of sources documents what is — and isn't — going on. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair, File)

For news organizations, the flood of Gaza war video is proving both illuminating and troubling

In a war where journalist access is limited, there’s a flood of video available online from the Israel-Hamas war.

Media watchdog says it was just ‘raising questions’ with insinuations about photographers and Hamas

The head of an Israeli media watchdog says it was simply ‘raising questions’ by wondering whether Palestinian photojournalists who documented the Oct. 7 attack on Israel had been tipped off in advance that it had happened.

This image released by ABC News Studios shows Bob Woodruff on a balcony overlooking the Al–Sadiriyah marketplace in Baghdad, Iraq. Woodruff has returned to the Iraqi roadside where a bomb nearly killed him while on assignment for ABC News in 2006. “After the Blast: The Will to Survive,” which airs on ABC Friday at 8 p.m. Eastern and begins streaming on Hulu a day later. (ABC News Studios via AP)

Bob Woodruff returns to Iraq roadside where bomb nearly killed him 17 years ago

Newsman Bob Woodruff has returned to the Iraqi roadside where a bomb nearly killed him while on assignment for ABC News in 2006.

FILE - A sign for the Pulitzer Prize is shown at Columbia University, May 28, 2019, in New York. The Pulitzer Prizes, considered the premier award for print journalists, are opening eligibility to broadcast and audio companies that also offer digital news sites. But the work these companies can submit for prize consideration must primarily be written journalism, the Columbia University-based Pulitzer Prize Board said on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Broadcast, audio companies will be eligible for Pulitzer Prizes, for work on digital sites

The Pulitzer Prizes will soon be accepting entries from broadcast and audio outlets, although primarily for written work.

Will Lewis, newly-appointed publisher and CEO of The Washington Post, poses for a portrait in Washington, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via AP)

Washington Post names veteran media executive Will Lewis as its new publisher and CEO

The Washington Post has named veteran media executive Will Lewis to serve as its new CEO and publisher.

FILE - Honoree Christiane Amanpour attends Variety's Power of Women in New York on April 5, 2019. Amanpour will host “The Amanpour Hour,” this Saturday on CNN. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Christiane Amanpour to debut weekly show after years of reduced presence on domestic CNN

Even Christiane Amanpour felt it was odd that CNN’s best-known international journalist had little visible presence on the company’s North American network for the past several years.

FILE - A woman walks by a Cornell University sign on the Ivy League school's campus in Ithaca, New York, on Jan. 14, 2022. Cornell University administrators dispatched campus police to a Jewish center after threatening statements appeared on a discussion board Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Online antisemitic threats unnerve Jewish students and spark condemnation at Cornell University

Cornell University administrators have dispatched campus police to a Jewish center after threatening statements against Jewish students appeared on an online discussion board.

Gannett denies that its marketing partner used artificial intelligence for its shopping website

The media company Gannett denied that it published material created by artificial intelligence on a shopping website that it owns.

FILE -The Beatles, foreground from left, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon and Ringo Starr on drums perform on the CBS "Ed Sullivan Show" in New York on Feb. 9, 1964. Sixty years after the onset of Beatlemania and with two of the quartet now dead, artificial intelligence has enabled the release of a “new” Beatles song.“Now And Then,” will be available Thursday, Nov. 2. (AP Photo/File)

The last new Beatles song, ‘Now And Then,’ will be released next week

This is it — the last “new” Beatles song. Sixty years after the onset of Beatlemania, the surviving members of the quartet are releasing the song “Now And Then.”

Mick Jagger, right, and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones perform during a celebration for the release of their new album "Hackney Diamonds" on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

What’s that bar band playing ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’? Oh, it’s the Rolling Stones!

The Rolling Stones celebrated the release of their first collection of new original songs in 18 years with a club gig in Manhattan before a few hundred invited guests.

FILE - Journalists observe as a Palestinian man wounded in Israeli bombardment is brought to a hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Journalists reporting in Gaza need to worry about basic survival for themselves and their families in addition to getting out the story of a besieged population. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Journalists in Gaza wrestle with issues of survival in addition to getting stories out

Journalists reporting in Gaza need to worry about basic survival for themselves and their families in addition to getting out the story of a besieged population.

Emmy Martin, Editor in Chief of The Daily Tar Heel, the student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, poses with a copy of the Aug. 30 paper outside of the newsroom on Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, in Chapel Hill, N.C. (Samantha Lewis via AP)

While the news industry struggles, college students are supplying some memorable journalism

An investigation into academic research leads to the resignation of Stanford University’s president.

Media entrepreneur unites young activists with power brokers for fight to make social media safe

A new organization, the Sustainable Media Center, is trying to unite young activists with power brokers for a fight to make social media safer.

Former President Donald Trump sits between his lawyers Christopher Kise, left, and Alina Habba during his civil fraud trial at the State Supreme Court building in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. (Angela Weiss/Pool Photo via AP)

All Trump, all the time? Former president’s legal problems a boon to MSNBC

Donald Trump’s legal problems may be a headache for the former president, but they are proving a boon to MSNBC.

FILE - Damarra Atkins pays respect to George Floyd at a mural at George Floyd Square, Friday, April 23, 2021, in Minneapolis. In a new study, Black Americans expressed broad concerns about how they are depicted in the news media, with majorities saying they see racist or negative depictions and a lack of effort to cover broad segments of their community. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

4 in 5 Black adults see racist depictions in the news either often or sometimes, says new study

In a major new study, Black Americans expressed broad concerns about how they are depicted in the news media, with majorities saying they see racist or negative depictions and a lack of effort by journalists to cover broader segments of their community.

FILE - Photographer Evgeniy Maloletka, from left, "Frontline" producer/editor Michelle Mizner, director Mstyslav Chernov, and field producer Vasilisa Stepanenko pose for a portrait to promote the film "20 Days in Mariupol" at the Latinx House during the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023, in Park City, Utah. The “Frontline” documentary collaboration with The Associated Press premieres on PBS on Nov. 21. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP, File)

PBS boasts slate of new shows unaffected by strikes, which it hopes will draw viewers in

There’s a broadcast television network offering plenty of original programming this fall, although it often flies under the radar.

FILE - News Corp. Exeuctive Chairman Rupert Murdoch, center, and his sons, Lachlan, left, and James Murdoch attend the 2014 Television Academy Hall of Fame in Beverly Hills, Calif, March 11, 2014. Media magnate Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chairman of News Corp. and Fox Corp., the companies that he built into forces over the last 50 years. He will become chairman emeritus of both corporations, the company announced on Thursday. His son, Lachlan, will control both companies. (Photo by Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP Images, File)

Rupert Murdoch’s surprise exit from Fox leaves son Lachlan in line of succession at media empire

Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as leader of both Fox’s parent company and his News Corp. media holdings. Fox says he will become chairman emeritus of both corporations.

The entrance to the Las Vegas Review-Journal campus is shown in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. The Review-Journal is being viciously attacked, either because of a misunderstanding or willful attempt to mislead, over its coverage of an alleged murder. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

Outdated headline sparks vicious online hate campaign directed at Las Vegas newspaper

A Las Vegas newspaper is the subject of vicious attacks online for its coverage of an alleged murder of a retired police chief.

Groups say philanthropists trying to boost local news shouldn’t leave minorities behind

Organizations representing minority journalists say they’re worried that a recently-announced $500 million initiative designed to boost local news would leave them behind.

FILE - Megyn Kelly poses at The Hollywood Reporter's 25th Annual Women in Entertainment Breakfast in Los Angeles, Dec. 7, 2016. Kelly has welcomed Donald Trump for an interview eight years after he erupted at her over her debate question. Kelly sat down with Trump for a satellite radio interview that aired Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Megyn Kelly welcomes Donald Trump for an interview 8 years after he erupted over her debate question

Megyn Kelly has welcomed Donald Trump for an interview eight years after he erupted at her over her debate question.

FILE -Taylor Swift appears at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles on Nov. 24, 2019, left, and Beyonce appears at the world premiere of "The Lion King" in Los Angeles on July 9, 2019. Gannett, the United States’ biggest newspaper chain, posted two unusual job listings to its site. On Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023 they revealed they are hiring a reporter focused on Taylor Swift. On Wednesday, Sept. 13, they shared a posting for a dedicated Beyoncé Knowles-Carter reporter who will be employed through USA Today and The Tennessean, the company's Nashville-based newspaper. (AP Photo/File)

Largest US newspaper chain is hiring Taylor Swift and Beyoncé reporters, drawing interest and ire

Gannett, the United States’ biggest newspaper chain, posted two unusual job listings to its site. On Tuesday, they revealed they are hiring a reporter focused on Taylor Swift.

This image released by CBS News shows, from left, Sharyn Alfonsi, L. Jon Wertheim, Bill Whitaker, Lesley Stahl, Scott Pelley, Cecilia Vega, Anderson Cooper and Executive Producer Bill Owens, from the CBS news series "60 Minutes." (Jai Lennard/CBS News via AP)

For several episodes this fall, ’60 Minutes’ will become 90 minutes

The famous stopwatch will still announce the show as “60 Minutes.” But for six episodes this fall, the long-running CBS newsmagazine will become 90 minutes.