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MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry, who joined the NBC News-operated channel in 2012, announced a walkout in a note to staffers posted Friday on the website Medium.

MSNBC parts ways with Melissa Harris-Perry after host’s critical email

June 11, 2018 at 5:58 a.m.

MSNBC has parted ways with host Melissa Harris-Perry after she complained about pre-emptions of her weekend program and implied that there was a racial aspect to the cable-news network's treatment,...

Al Jazeera America employees prepare Aug. 20, 2013, for their first broadcast in New York.

Al Jazeera America news channel to close up shop

March 30, 2019 at 3:48 a.m.

Al Jazeera America, the low-rated cable news network that sought to take on Fox News and CNN, will shut down operations at the end of April, less than three years...

NBC has conducted an investigation into some of the stories anchor Brian Williams has told.

NBC News finds Brian Williams embellished at least 11 times: report

April 5, 2019 at 11:31 p.m.

A monthslong internal investigation of Brian Williams by NBC News has turned up 11 instances in which the anchorman publicly embellished details of his reporting exploits, according to a person...

Anchors might not carry all the weight

June 15, 2018 at 10:49 p.m.

Ever since television news began, conventional wisdom has held that viewers bond to a favorite news anchor. The Anchor Rule has been codified into an old saying: People don't watch...

Bill O'Reilly, Fox News Channel's prime-time star, is accused of claiming he had reported in a combat zone for CBS News during the 1982 Falklands War when he was more than a thousand miles from the front.

Bill O’Reilly cites conflicts that he witnessed. How much of that is true?

August 18, 2019 at 6:50 p.m.

In his long and sometimes stormy career as a journalist and cable-news pundit, Bill O'Reilly has occasionally mentioned his exploits in conflict zones around the world. "I've been there," he...

Within NBC, staff manages hurt feelings as debate over firing rages

June 23, 2019 at 1:46 a.m.

Senior NBC officials seriously considered firing anchor Brian Williams because he lied to his viewers about riding in a military helicopter hit by a rocket-propelled grenade during the Iraq war,...

NBC launches probe into Brian Williams’s statements

June 23, 2019 at 2:40 p.m.

NBC News launched an internal investigation Friday into statements made by its lead anchor, Brian Williams, about his reporting from Iraq in 2003, as well as stories he told about...

NBC’s Brian Williams apologizes for telling false Iraq story

May 17, 2019 at 12:21 p.m.

NBC News anchor Brian Williams conceded on Wednesday that a story he had told repeatedly about being under fire while covering the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was false. Williams...

Students walk last week past the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia's Charlottesville campus. Rolling Stone has backed down from an article that asserted a student was gang-raped at a party there.

Rolling Stone never asked university about rape allegations, according to emails

June 23, 2019 at 1:06 p.m.

A Rolling Stone reporter and a fact checker for the magazine never sought a reaction from officials at the University of Virginia about an alleged gang rape at a campus...

Rape article controversy has plunged Rolling Stone into its deepest crisis

June 22, 2019 at 11:47 a.m.

The story featured a sympathetic protagonist, some powerful accused villains and allegations of the most unspeakable kind. In September 2011, Rolling Stone magazine recounted the alleged sexual abuse of Billy,...

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