Fox News reporter Leland Vittert, his cameraman and two security officers were harassed and struck by protesters in Lafayette Park as they covered the demonstration near the White House early on Saturday. In an interview with Deadline, Vittert described how a number of those in the crowd turned their anger on the…

NBC News unveiled a Meet the Press branded, five-part streaming series on Friday, called Meet the Press: College Roundtable featuring college journalism students in a virtual panel discussion. Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd kicked off the first episode with a panel of college journalists talking about the…

UPDATE, 2:23 PM PT: President Donald Trump told reporters that he talked with the family of George Floyd on Friday and said that he asked the Justice Department to expedite the investigation into his death. “It’s a terrible thing. We all saw what we saw and it’s very hard to even conceive of anything other than what…

Joe Biden addressed the death of George Floyd and the protests in Minneapolis in a short statement on Friday, as violence escalated overnight, including the burning of a police precinct. “The original sin of this country still stains our nation today,” Biden said. “Sometimes we manage to overlook it, and just push…

Sheryl Crow, Rufus Wainwright, Jimmy Buffett, Joe Walsh and David Crosby performed for Joe Biden at a virtual fundraiser on Thursday, but the presumptive Democratic nominee turned his focus to the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis. “We can't ignore that we are in a country with an open wound right now,” Biden said…

ViacomCBS’ layoffs this week also impacted CBS News and CBS-owned affiliates, the latest fallout to hit news media amid the coronavirus pandemic. The layoffs were said to make up a single-digit percentage of the news division — reportedly 5%, or about 75 employees. They follow recent staff cuts at outlets such as The A…

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that targets social media companies, claiming that sites like Twitter and Facebook have “unchecked power” to censor and restrict points of view. First Amendment advocates and tech industry groups quickly raised red flags over the order and doubts about its…

As the White House readied an executive order on the conduct on social media platforms, reporters at the press briefing on Thursday focused on the latest source of Donald Trump’s discontent: Twitter’s decision to put fact check links on two of the president’s tweets about mail-in ballots in California. Earlier this…

UPDATE: President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order social media on Thursday, with a draft of the measure calling for a review of a key law that gives immunity to Twitter, Facebook and other sites from lawsuits over third party, user-generated. The order follows the president’s threats to “strongly…

EXCLUSIVE: Barbra Streisand and John Legend will headline a fundraiser for Joe Biden on June 11, the latest in a series of events the former vice president has on the schedule to raise money before the fall campaign. Other guests will be announced for the event, which will raise money for the Biden Victory Fund, a…

A Washington state judge has tossed out a public interest group’s lawsuit against Fox News, claiming that the network violated consumer protection laws via its coronavirus coverage. The Washington League for Increased Transparency and Ethics, or WASH LITE, sued the network in early April, claiming that its coverage…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey suggested that Donald Trump’s conspiracy tweets about Joe Scarborough are better left to the public conversation, “especially with our global leaders,” apparently rejecting calls that the platform remove the president’s posts. At Twitter’s annual meeting on Wednesday, Dorsey was asked by a…