I met Gustavo Godoy when he was anchoring Noticiero SIN with Teresa Abate in Miami when I had been hired as executive producer.
Gus and Tere were a likable and extremely capable Cuban anchor team, but as TV demographics continued to evolve, they made room for Maria Elena Salinas and Jorge Ramos, younger Mexican news anchors that ultimately catapulted Univision into a television news powerhouse.
In a hero’s journey, women have been delegated to the background, Heroine Daisy Veerasingham will change the face of The AP
Like myself, Daisy is also an immigrant, my friend, and a former colleague. Ms. Veerasingham came to The AP from #LexisNexis in 2004 as sales director for AP Television News in London. I was then serving as APTN New York Bureau Chief. Ms. Daisy began driving content licensing and marketing in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Australia, leading the company’s expansion efforts.
First and foremost, a shout out to one of our best Telemundo TV Los Angeles broadcast newswomen I admire. Sandra Luz Gallegos Devine, who was far ahead of her time when she took on my assignment to live with the homeless population of LA Skid R
My family emigrated to the USA when I was a little boy. The youngest son of professional parents who lost everything and fled for safety in America, the land of the free and the home of the brave.
There were various news media websites, including the New York Times and CNN crashing across the globe in a wider outage.
Multiple sites, including some government platforms went down unexpectedly and have now reportedly reemerged. Most are operated by news outlets and include the Financial Times, and Bloomberg News and others that were down across the World Wide Web.
Local news is becoming more difficult to find and the unfortunate outcome is that it keeps hurting our fragile American democracy.
The world needs more local news and less individual views.Two decades ago, I accepted a gracious offer from one of America’s wealthiest businessman. Chuck Dolan hired me to build, recruit, train and launch News 12 The Bronx. It was originally supposed to be as local as local news can get. We applied the term hyper local. https://bronx.news12.com/
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.