News Media

In 1846, five New York City newspapers funded a pony express route through Alabama to bring news of the Mexican War north faster than the U.S. Post Office could deliver it. And The Associated Press was born.

The AP was the first private sector organization in the U.S. to operate on a national scale. Over the past 175 years, it has been the first to inform the world of many of history's most important moments, from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the bombing of Pearl Harbor to the fall of the Shah of Iran and the death of Pope John Paul.

The 2021 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders #RSF shows that journalism, the main vaccine against disinformation, is completely or partly blocked in 73 percent of the 180 countries ranked by the organization.

As people on earth celebrate World Press Freedom Day 2021, everyone should pause and take time to consider the crucial role that all journalists everywhere play while informing society during difficult times for humanity.  #WorldPressFreedomDay 

In apparent damage control, CBS has combined news and TV stations, with Neeraj Khemlani Wendy McMahon to lead a new division. 

Arthur Leon Judson would be turning in his grave. He was an artists' manager who also managed the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra and was the founding father of CBS.

Roger Harrison Mudd, who was an American broadcast journalist, news anchorman, and TV Network correspondent for

@CBSNews @NBCNews and PBS #NewsHour. Most recently he was the primary anchor for #TheHistoryChannel.

The US Senate begins former president Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial today in an unprecedented Congressional action.

Trump failed more than 60 court challenges in his false narrative that our election was stolen, so why does he keep lying about it? 
If Senate Republicans wanted to they could unite this great nation by convicting Donald Trump showing he is a no good liar

My worst #NewYearsEve was spent as a young news field producer in 1983 when #FALN, a Puerto Rican terrorist group was reportedly responsible for a series of bombings on New Year's Eve that rocked four government buildings in #NYC and seriously injured three police officers.

These blasts also struck #NYPD Police Headquarters, two Federal buildings, and the Brooklyn Courthouse during a 90-minute reign of terror.

The pen is mightier than the sword was initially written by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, indicating that communication utilizing particularly the written language, or in some interpretations, administrative power or advocacy of an independent press, is a more effective tool than direct violence could ever wish to accomplish.