Jon Banner

The Media Divide: Who's Keeping up with the Joneses? - Posted September 16, 2009
Politico's Michael Calderone and Mike Allen take an in-depth look at how the news these days looks different depending on where you watch. From birthers to tea parties to town halls and - not to mention President Obama's speech last week to school children and the background of former White House aide... [TVNewser]

The Media Divide: Who's Keeping up with the Joneses? - Posted September 16, 2009
Politico's Michael Calderone and Mike Allen take an in-depth look at how the news these days looks different depending on where you watch. From birthers to tea parties to town halls and - not to mention President Obama's speech last week to school children and the background of former White House aide... [TVNewser]

Diane Sawyer to Anchor 'World News': 'Another Nail in the Coffin of the Old Boys' Network' - Posted September 3, 2009
Anyone predicting a Diane Sawyer - Katie Couric "cat fight" come January "needs to get a life," says Connie Chung. "It's a chauvinistic question," explains Chung, 63, Dan Rather's co-anchor on "CBS Evening News" for about a minute and a half in the early '90s. "The question should be, 'How... [TVNewser]

Obama & The Press: A Match Made In Ratings Heaven? - Posted July 6, 2009
"Obama should change his middle name from Hussein to Nielsen," said Gail Shister, a writing instructor at the University of Pennsylvania (and TVNewser columnist) to AP's David Bauder for a piece on President Obama's relationship with the networks. Strong public interest in the president and his policies explains why so many people... [FishBowlDC]

Four Hours of Pres. Obama or "More of 'The Biggest Loser'?" - Posted July 6, 2009
The AP's David Bauder takes a closer look at the TV news coverage of the Obama administration, specifically through two recent specials - "Inside the Obama White House" on NBC and the health care reform special on ABC. Says ABC "World News" EP Jon Banner: "We will take every opportunity that's given... [TVNewser]

Network Newsers Reflect on First 100 Days - Posted May 4, 2009
David Bauder of The Associated Press talks to a member of each network news organization about President Obama's first 100 days and recent polls which look at how the current administration has been covered: ABC World News EP Jon Banner: "My eyes are always open to everything, including studies like these. I... [TVNewser]

Obama Meets the Anchors: "It Did Have a 'Picture Taking with Santa' Kind of Feel To It" - Posted February 4, 2009
The AP's David Bauder follows up on Pres. Obama's sit downs with the network anchors. "Gibson was first, followed by Williams, Couric, Cooper and Wallace. "It did have a 'picture taking with Santa' kind of feel to it," NBC's Brian Williams tells Bauder. "The timing, one of the worst days of Obama's... [TVNewser]

Gibson and Banner Play Santa for Charities - Posted December 20, 2008
A TVNewser tipster sends this along: In lieu of holiday presents this year -- and in light of the difficult economic times -- Charlie Gibson and World News EP Jon Banner made contributions on behalf of the World News staff to two charities: the Robin Hood Foundation in New York and... [TVNewser]

Cable News Gain Is Evening News Pain - Posted November 20, 2008
While the cable news nets benefited greatly from the presidential campaign season, the LATimes' Matea Gold reveals the evening newscasts didn't. ...the overall number of people watching the network evening newscasts actually shrank slightly in the last months of the presidential campaign, despite the programs' heavy political focus -- down 280,000 viewers... [TVNewser]

Jon Banner Comments on ABC/New Yorker - Posted September 22, 2008
World News EP Jon Banner, whose quote in this TVNewser post was cited in the response letter by New Yorker columnist Steve Coll today, emailed this comment: Imagine my surprise when I read Steve Coll's response to David Westin's letter regarding the New Yorker's factually incorrect story about ABC News' interviews with... [TVNewser]

Jon Banner Comments on ABC/New Yorker - Posted September 22, 2008
World News EP Jon Banner, whose quote in this TVNewser post was cited in the response letter by New Yorker columnist Steve Coll today, emailed this comment: Imagine my surprise when I read Steve Coll's response to David Westin's letter regarding the New Yorker's factually incorrect story about ABC News' interviews with... [TVNewser]

Westin Responds to New Yorker's "Inaccurate Reporting" - Posted September 22, 2008
ABC News president David Westin wrote a strongly worded letter, published in today's New Yorker, responding to the charges raised in columnist Steve Coll's article last week. As TVNewser reported, Coll's column, about ABC's blurring of the news/entertainment lines with its Gov. Sarah Palin interview, drew the ire of ABC News execs... [TVNewser]

Westin Responds to New Yorker's "Inaccurate Reporting" - Posted September 22, 2008
ABC News president David Westin wrote a strongly worded letter, published in today's New Yorker, responding to the charges raised in columnist Steve Coll's article last week. As TVNewser reported, Coll's column, about ABC's blurring of the news/entertainment lines with its Gov. Sarah Palin interview, drew the ire of ABC News execs... [TVNewser]

Gibson's Palin Interview: When, Where, How - Posted September 8, 2008
Expect to hear Gov. Sarah Palin answer her first mainstream media questions shortly after 6:30pmET on Thursday this week. Confirmed last night, ABC News' Charlie Gibson was picked by the McCain campaign to conduct the first interview with Palin, and today we learned more details of how it happened and what the... [TVNewser]

Inside the Tent at ABC News - Posted August 29, 2008
As the Democratic convention ends and the Republican convention is about to get underway, the one constant will be the media — either en route to or already broadcasting from St. Paul. And one of the constants of the media presence is the set up — large tents and small trailers that... [TVNewser]