Black news anchors

Norah O’Donnell will become anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News” and Gayle King is getting two new morning show co-hosts as CBS News seeks to boost the programs’ ratings and put a tumultuous, scandal-scarred period behind it.   “The news should rarely be about us, and sometimes what you read isn’t even […]

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. (AP) — A northern Arkansas man who allegedly made threatening phone calls to CNN anchor Don Lemon has pleaded not guilty. The Baxter Bulletin reports Benjamin Craig Matthews, 38, appeared in Baxter County Court Thursday . Matthews, who is from Mountain Home, about 110 miles (177 kilometers) north of Little Rock, is […]

OSSINING, N.Y. (AP) — CBS News’ Bill Whitaker has spoken at college commencements before, but never at one where most graduates weren’t free to leave with their families. Whitaker, who has done several stories on criminal justice in four years at “60 Minutes,” urged 44 men who earned college degrees Wednesday while inmates at New […]

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN’s Don Lemon said Thursday that he “misspoke” the night before in an attempt to make a broader point when he claimed that Fox News Channel did not report on White House communications director Hope Hicks’ resignation. Turned out that Fox had, several times — every hour from when the story […]

When Tamron Hall left NBC/MSNBC because of the arrival of Megyn Kelly from Fox News, a lot of folks and fans were obviously upset and were concerned about her landing another high-profile gig. Well, it looks like you don’t have to worry. Tamron’s gonna do OK. In fact, she’s being encouraged to take on co-hosting […]

NEW YORK (AP) — NBC said Wednesday that news anchor Tamron Hall is leaving the network, the first casualty of its decision to sign Megyn Kelly away from Fox News Channel. Hall co-hosted the third of NBC’s four-hour “Today” show, airing at 9 a.m. ET, with Al Roker. Last week they were told that their […]

Journalist and first African-American female co-host of “The Today Show,” Tamron Hall explained in a recent interview with People magazine that her sister’s tragic experience in an abusive relationship has seriously impacted her own ideas about love and intimacy. “No one deserves what happened to my sister,” Hall opened up about her sister, Renate. In […]

  Joy Reid wants everyone to know she doesn’t blame Tom Joyner for the cancellation of her MSNBC show The Reid Report. Although it is true he declared himself a big fan right before the announcement was made. “I don’t believe you to be the jink, but as a reporter, now that Jay and Sybil have […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Lester Holt’s audience shot up by more than half a million viewers on his second week filling in at NBC’s “Nightly News” for the suspended Brian Williams. Then again, his rivals fared just as well. NBC’s newscast averaged 10.1 million viewers last week, roughly 600,000 more than the week before, the […]

Soledad O’Brien may not be on CNN everyday anymore, but she’s hardly slowed down. Now the head of her own production company, she’s doing another Black In America documentary this time focused around “Stop and Frisk,” she’s on Al-Jazeera network, and she’s the keynote speaker at the 27th annual Martin Luther King breakfast in Jacksonville, […]

After CNN anchor Don Lemon said that Black people could help themselves by “pulling their pants up” he found himself in hot water with social media, especially “Black Twitter,” who’s #DonLemonlogic hashtag was one of it’s most hilarious commentaries. Lemon has rebounded by hosting the CNN special “We Were There: The March on Washington – An Oral History” […]