Local news outlets are trusted in part because of proximity: When your local anchor describes the world, it’s the world you know and see on a daily basis. That four alarm fire doesn’t grab your ...

SAG-AFTRA has slammed Sinclair Broadcast Group in the wake of a company-wide directive forcing anchors to warn viewers about the prevalence of unsubstantiated news reports. The union, which represents ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The question now is whether 40 more stations will parrot Sinclair’s politics as they become part of the largest ...

Sinclair Broadcast Group is defending itself against criticism for a recent on-air promotional message many of its local news anchors were asked to read that warned viewers about "false news" on ...

Sinclair Broadcast Group has been the subject of widespread ridicule for forcing its local TV news anchors to read a script decrying “fake stories” and “false news.” But Sinclair’s stand against ...

Outrage over a one-minute Sinclair Broadcast Group media-bashing promotion is jumping across time zones and platforms with some calling for an advertising boycott or its employees to go on strike.

The Sinclair Broadcast Group executive behind a “must-run” script that made news this week defended the segment in a memo to Sinclair-owned newsrooms Monday, CNN reported. “The critics are now upset ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover media: innovators, tech disruptions and business strategies. The controversial promotional script that Sinclair Broadcast ...

One company. One script. Many, many voices. A video published by sports news site Deadspin over the weekend revealed dozens of TV anchors from Sinclair Broadcast Group reciting the same speech warning ...

The Sinclair Broadcast Group has been in the crosshairs of media criticism in recent weeks, notably after a video featuring anchors from Sinclair-owned local TV stations reading the same lines from a ...