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Rob Archer hosts Archer's Line Podcast, a news show with 92 episodes published.
I’ve sat through more “meet the new boss” meetings than I can count. The script is almost always the same. The new boss introduces themselves. Employees ask a few careful questions. Everyone remains professional. Sometim
The shutting down of CBS News Radio was big news. But there is a bigger story here, and it’s about jobs and the people who are disappearing behind the scenes: The reporters no longer covering beats. The editors no longer
The most successful news program in television just got handed to someone who has never run a television news program. Again. First, David Ellison installed Bari Weiss to run CBS News. Now Weiss has installed Nick Bilton
There’s a growing rebellion inside journalism over the proposed merger between Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery. Nearly 200 reporters, former anchors, documentary filmmakers, academics, and press freedom group
Ten years ago this month, I walked into the studios of KNX on Wilshire Boulevard for the first time as an employee. I passed by the CBS Radio logo, got my badge with the CBS eye on it, and felt a surge of pride. The logo
There’s a phrase quietly spreading through the media business right now that would have sounded insane just a few years ago: “Google Zero.” As in: prepare for a future where Google sends you no traffic at all. At Google
There’s an old rule in television news that eventually overrides everything else: ratings. You can survive criticism for a while. You can survive bad headlines. You can survive angry staff meetings, leaked memos, and med
This is Stephen Colbert’s final week on CBS. The last show is Thursday. And for people who grew up loving television — especially smart television — it feels strange. I’ve been a fan of Colbert since his days on The Dail
Once again, the President of the United States is accusing journalists of “treason.” This time it happened aboard Air Force One, where Trump lashed out at New York Times reporter David Sanger over reporting on the war in
CBS Evening News had a rough night in Taiwan. The network sent anchor Tony Dokoupil to Taipei for special coverage tied to President Trump’s trip to China, which is awkward enough on its own, considering NBC and ABC repo
The FCC’s lone Democratic commissioner just did something almost unheard of. Anna Gomez publicly warned The Walt Disney Company that her own agency appears to be targeting the company for political reasons. In a letter s
CBS Radio News is dying in less than two weeks. For most people, that won’t mean much. Another media brand disappears. Another corporate restructuring. Another quiet ending in an industry that has spent the past 20 years
The use of AI chatbots can be dangerous for people vulnerable to magical thinking — especially when they don’t understand what their own brains are doing. Pareidolia — the brain’s tendency to find patterns, faces, and me
For months, America’s major television networks have mostly responded to political pressure from the Trump administration the same way: compliance, caution, retreat. Now, one of them is pushing back. ABC has accused the
Most of the time, law enforcement and local reporters can work hand in hand. After all, a lot of reporting comes from information given to them by the police. But when the big crowds gather, in the heat of protests, wher
There’s a phrase in broadcasting for when you’re between gigs: on the beach. It sounds almost pleasant. It isn’t. It’s more like a kind of gallows humor. Like admiring the view when they’re putting a noose around your ne
The following is a fictional “what if” scenario. Day One — 9:00 a.m. | The House Floor The vote to impeach Donald Trump has been building for six weeks — slowly at first, then all at once, the way these things always go.
Global press freedom has hit its lowest point in the 25 years that Reporters Without Borders has tracked it. Far from being a dip, it’s a trend. And there are no signs of it bouncing back. In its 2026 World Press Freedom
Things aren’t looking good for radio. The audience is shrinking. Listening is at the lowest levels we’ve seen. But I still believe radio has a future, even taking that into account. More on that in a moment. First, the b
The federal government is preparing to do something it hasn’t done in decades. The FCC is moving to call in all eight Disney-owned ABC station licenses for early renewal — stations in major markets like New York and Chic
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