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News junkies this week are agitated over the disappearance of CNN's Reliable Sources, but cable news network chiefs have a deeper concern: the disappearance of reliable anchors. Ratings of news shows continue to plunge as programmers struggle to figure out what sort of host (and ideology) would appeal to their once…

The final episode of Reliable Sources on Sunday drew an average of 769,000 total viewers and 105,000 in adults 25-54, according to Nielsen. That was an increase in the show’s numbers from the previous week, and was the most watched show on CNN on Sunday, according to Nielsen. Fox News’ MediaBuzz, hosted by Howard…

Brian Stelter signed off from CNN on Sunday with the final edition of Reliable Sources, telling viewers that “CNN must remain strong,” while his guests warned throughout the hour of the threats facing the media and democracy. “I know it’s not partisan to stand up for decency and democracy and dialogue,” Stelter said…

UPDATE, Thursday PM: After the announcement that CNN was canceling Reliable Sources and that its host, Brian Stelter, was leaving them network, it was not immediately clear what would happen with the Reliable Sources newsletter. Oliver Darcy wrote on Thursday evening that, after a summer break, the newsletter would…

CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter will host a daily version of Reliable Sources for CNN+, the upcoming subscription service set to debut this spring. Reliable Sources Daily will examine the world of media, politics and entertainment, as Stelter has done on his weekly Sunday CNN show, podcast and daily…

The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg visited CNN's Reliable Sources on Sunday to talk about the recent reporting the magazine did on Donald Trump, which has stirred controversy after the publication claimed Trump called Americans war veterans who died in battle “losers” and “suckers”. Since the article came…

Randall Stephenson, CEO of WarnerMedia parent AT&T Sunday tipped his hat to the division’s CNN, said AT&T data usage has surged and it’s not charging for overages or cutting off service as the company and the rest of the country face down the global coronavirus pandemic – largely from home. Given, it’s his owned…

UPDATED with Fox News’ response: There are certain things that are reliable in the world. Old Faithful. Big Ben. And Robert De Niro having a few choice words for President Donald Trump. Today on CNN's Reliable Sources, De Niro was at it again. The man who cursed Trump from the Tonys stage and said he’d like to punch…

UPDATE, with CBS News response Former CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley said today on CNN’s Reliable Sources news magazine that he was fired from his job because he “wouldn’t stop complaining to management” about a “hostile work environment” in the news division. The remarks came after Pelley was asked about the…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed today on CNN’s Reliable Sources that the company does not ban people for political viewpoints, even while admitting Twitter has a “left-leaning” bias. Asked about reports that Twitter is “shadow-banning” certain posts and accounts – a process by which the blocking of a user or their…

After busting Donald Trump last night for live-tweeting — and badly screwing up — a Fox News report on Rep. Adam Schiff, CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter panned the president’s phoned-in interview with Jeanine Pirro as just so much more “fantasyland.” Stelter was the first to notice yesterday that Trump’s…

UPDATE, with video April Ryan, the White House correspondent who asked President Donald Trump if he is a racist, told CNN today that news organizations in the age of Trump have “the FBI and local police on speed dial” for death threats against reporters. “Death threats, yes,” Ryan told a seemingly surprised Brian…