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| Sally Buzbee |
Former Washington Post executive editor Sally Buzbee is coming on board at Reuters as news editor for the United States and Canada, effective Dec. 11. Buzbee joined the Post in 2021 and was the first woman to lead its newsroom. She left the paper in June following disagreements with William Lewis, its new CEO, about a reorganization. Before her stint at the Post, Buzbee was the executive editor and SVP of the Associated Press. “Her journalistic chops, her management experience, her global understanding, and her positive and pragmatic approach are just what we need in this time of upheaval for the world and for the news industry,” said Reuters editor-in-chief Alessandra Galloni.
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| Chuck Scarborough |
Chuck Scarborough, who has been news anchor at NBC 4 New York since 1974, is stepping down to become a periodic contributor to special station projects and programming. While Scarborough, 81, left the anchor’s chair on the station’s 11 p.m. newscast in 2016, he has remained co-anchor for the 6 p.m. weekday news. Before coming to WNBC, he held anchoring jobs in Atlanta and Boston. A series of commemorative events held to celebrate his 50th anniversary with the station on March 25 included the ceremonial lighting of the Empire State Building in his honor. “Chuck Scarborough is the gold standard in American broadcast journalism,” said NBC 4 New York president and general manager Eric Lerner. Scarborough’s 6 p.m.successor will be announced at a later date.
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Union members at The Guardian and its sister paper The Observer have voted to strike for 48 hours over the Observer’s planned sale to Tortoise, the company run by former editor of the Times and former director of BBC News James Harding. The strike is set for Dec. 4 and 5 and further strike dates may follow. A strike by National Union of Journalists members would be the first such industrial action by the staff at the newspapers in decades. More than nine out of ten (93 percent) of the union members who voted supported the action. Tortoise has said it plans to continue to publish the Observer on Sundays and build its digital presence. A Guardian spokesperson said that it did “not believe a strike is the best course of action” and that its chief aim was to ensure that both publications continue to “thrive in a challenging media environment.”
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is being bought by the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, a nonprofit that is the parent organization of the Baltimore Banner... The British Broadcasting Corporation is axing approximately 2,000 jobs, about 10 percent of its work force... Snap, the company behind Snapchat, is also succumbing to layoff fever, announcing plans to lay off 16 percent of its employees, about 1,000 people.
CBS News Radio will go off the air on May 22, part of the axe-swinging managerial plan put into play by CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss... The Economist, which was first published in 1843, is changing hands. Canadian billionaire Stephen Smith has agreed to acquire a 26.9 percent stake in the publication from Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, her family and family foundation... Nexstar Media Group says it has closed its acquisition of TEGNA, the broadcast, digital media and marketing services company that was formed in 2015, when the Gannett Company split into two publicly traded companies.
USA TODAY brings on Jamie Stockwell as VP of news, effective March 30. Stockwell was most recently deputy managing editor of news for the Washington Post... YouTube expands its likeness detection capabilities to a pilot group of government officials, journalists and political candidates... The AP Fund for Journalism adds 50 news organizations to its local news program, bringing the total number of participating newsrooms to 100. 
Versant Media Group, the NBCUniversal cable TV spin-off, today reported its first financial results as 2025 revenues dipped 5.3 percent to $6.7B and standalone EBITDA dropped 9.1 percent to $2.2B.
Trump Media & Technology Group is discussing a spin-off of the Truth Social platform following the expected closing of its $6B merger deal with TAE Technologies... Condé Nast sells off Them, the digital LGBTQ-focused platform it launched in 2017, to Equalpride, publisher of Out, The Advocate, Out Traveler, Health PLUS Wellness and Pride.com... CBS News has parted ways with longevity influencer Peter Attia, one of the 19 contributors that editor-in-chief Bari Weiss brought on as part of her plan to present a wider variety of voices on the platform. 
