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WASHINGTON - Acknowledging it was "an enormously difficult story" to report, "NBC Nightly News" aired a segment on its broadcast on Wednesday about the six-month suspension of its anchor Brian Williams and pledged to make itself worthy of viewers' trust. Lester Holt, who is...

LOS ANGELES - After months of preparations, CBS News is widely expected to launch CBSN, a new always-on news service distributed via broadband video and other new-media technologies, part of an effort by CBS Corp. to burnish the work of its venerable news unit without having to build...

LOS ANGELES - The videos are shocking, repulsive and horrifying. Yet they would likely attract tens of thousands of viewers who have few qualms about watching appalling content. As a broadcaster, do you put them on the air or hold back? Many TV-news outlets are grappling...

If viewers notice extra yelling on Fox News lately, it might be because two recent weeks were among the cable channel's lowest-rated since before 9/11. The only weeks to do worse were Christmas's 2012 and 2013. During the week of May 5, 2014 — the most recent for which numbers...

Don't expect Barbara Walters to fade away after she retires: The news legend said at a party for her retirement from journalism that she isn't ready to say goodbye for good. “Who knows what the future brings?” Walters asked in her not-necessarily-farewell speech. “Maybe...