Liam Reilly. (Photo courtesy CNN / Warner Bros Discovery)
Lawyers representing two fired Nexstar Media Group news directors are scheduled to depose a CNN journalist about his online communications with the chief communications executive of the local television broadcaster.
The journalist, Liam Reilly, is one of two known individuals who will be questioned as part of the defamation and wrongful termination lawsuit filed by the former news directors of Wood-tv (Channel 8), Stanton Tang and Amy Fox.
Tang was named as the orchestrator of a newsroom-wide memo that urged reporters at the TV station to curb their coverage of Pride Month events in 2023. Fox wrote and sent the memo at Tang’s direction; in the letter, she noted that the TV station covered an area of Michigan that is politically conservative.
After an internal investigation, both were fired, with Nexstar citing a violation of company policy. Two newsroom employees were also...
Lawyers representing two fired Nexstar Media Group news directors are scheduled to depose a CNN journalist about his online communications with the chief communications executive of the local television broadcaster.
The journalist, Liam Reilly, is one of two known individuals who will be questioned as part of the defamation and wrongful termination lawsuit filed by the former news directors of Wood-tv (Channel 8), Stanton Tang and Amy Fox.
Tang was named as the orchestrator of a newsroom-wide memo that urged reporters at the TV station to curb their coverage of Pride Month events in 2023. Fox wrote and sent the memo at Tang’s direction; in the letter, she noted that the TV station covered an area of Michigan that is politically conservative.
After an internal investigation, both were fired, with Nexstar citing a violation of company policy. Two newsroom employees were also...
- 5/28/2025
- by Matthew Keys
- The Desk
People who want to see what Brian Stelter has planned for CNN’s “Reliable Sources” media newsletter won’t have to wait as long as they might think.
Starting Monday, “Rs” will publish each weekday morning, Monday through Friday, and the next edition — the first to be issued since Stelter returned to CNN last week after a two-year absence — could post as soon as 30 minutes after the article you are reading right now sees the light of day.
The A.M. posting and the new five-days-a-week schedule -– “Reliable Sources” had most recently been published evenings Monday through Thursday — are “experimental, in beta mode,” says Stelter, during a brief conversation Sunday evening, while he worked on the newsletter and prepared his kids to get ready for bed. “I also think there’s a space to be a little more forward looking to the day ahead,” he adds, noting that the...
Starting Monday, “Rs” will publish each weekday morning, Monday through Friday, and the next edition — the first to be issued since Stelter returned to CNN last week after a two-year absence — could post as soon as 30 minutes after the article you are reading right now sees the light of day.
The A.M. posting and the new five-days-a-week schedule -– “Reliable Sources” had most recently been published evenings Monday through Thursday — are “experimental, in beta mode,” says Stelter, during a brief conversation Sunday evening, while he worked on the newsletter and prepared his kids to get ready for bed. “I also think there’s a space to be a little more forward looking to the day ahead,” he adds, noting that the...
- 9/9/2024
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Oliver Darcy, the author of CNN’s influential “Reliable Sources” newsletter, has left the Warner Bros. Discovery-backed outlet, leaving the direction of the company’s media-industry franchise in doubt.
A new newsletter from Darcy, called “Status,” landed in email inboxes Thursday morning.
“Drawing on a deep well of sourcing and industry expertise, ‘Status’ delivers hard-hitting reporting and unflinching analysis on the Fourth Estate, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley,” Darcy wrote in an email delivered via the Beehiv platform. “There will be no sugarcoating, no pulling punches, no sparing sensitive egos — just the unvarnished truth about the companies and individuals who shape our world.” He said the newsletter would be published Sunday through Thursday.
One person familiar with the matter said Darcy was eager to pursue his own path and felt he could turn his reporting and media presence into a scalable business. He won’t be the first journalist associated...
A new newsletter from Darcy, called “Status,” landed in email inboxes Thursday morning.
“Drawing on a deep well of sourcing and industry expertise, ‘Status’ delivers hard-hitting reporting and unflinching analysis on the Fourth Estate, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley,” Darcy wrote in an email delivered via the Beehiv platform. “There will be no sugarcoating, no pulling punches, no sparing sensitive egos — just the unvarnished truth about the companies and individuals who shape our world.” He said the newsletter would be published Sunday through Thursday.
One person familiar with the matter said Darcy was eager to pursue his own path and felt he could turn his reporting and media presence into a scalable business. He won’t be the first journalist associated...
- 8/8/2024
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
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