UPDATE, with comment from White House: Fox News has responded to the attention its coverage of former President Donald Trump’s speech got last night, when a chyron called President Joe Biden a “wannabe dictator.” “The chyron was taken down immediately and was addressed,” a Fox News spokesperson said on Wednesday. …

NBC News announced the class of nine journalists who will be deployed to cover 2024 presidential candidates and battleground states, tracking every movement of campaigns as the race unfolds. The embeds, as they are called, serve as the eyes and ears on the ground for the NBCU news platforms, and …

UPDATE, 7:09 PM: CNN issued a statement about its town hall with Donald Trump, amid some harsh criticism that it gave the former president a platform to spew falsehoods. A spokesperson said, “Tonight Kaitlan Collins exemplified what it means to be a world-class journalist. She asked tough, fair and revealing questions. …

Fox News is facing another defamation lawsuit, this time from the former executive director of a Department of Homeland Security division tasked with monitoring the threat of disinformation. Nina Jankowicz sued the network and parent Fox Corp. in Delaware Superior Court. That’s the same venue where Dominion Voting Systems was …

President Joe Biden spent a great deal of his speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on the fate of journalists held in captivity, vowing, “I promise you. I am working like hell to get them home.” Still in a tone of seriousness, Biden said, “I believe in the First …

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, as well as Vice President Kamala Harris and First Gentleman Doug Emhoff, will attend this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, underscoring how one of the biggest social nights of the year for Beltway media and politicos has lasted despite predictions of …

About 15 minutes after the surprise settlement with Fox, Dominion’s lead attorney Justin Nelson stood before a horde of reporters waiting for any details on how the case was resolved. “The truth matters. Lies have consequences…Today’s settlement of $787,500,000 represents vindication and accountability,” he said, as journalists feverishly tweeted and …

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), the chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, led a delegation of lawmakers last week for meetings in Hollywood and Silicon Valley, with an eye toward gathering information on how the two California-centric industries interact with Beijing. Their agenda in the entertainment …

UPDATE, Wednesday: A Delaware judge again scolded Fox attorneys over the disclosure that Rupert Murdoch is an officer of both Fox News and Fox Corp. and indicated that he is considering whether to issue some kind of a sanction in the case. Dominion’s attorney Justin Nelson asked Judge Eric M. …

UPDATE, Friday: NPR said that it has stopped tweeting from its main Twitter account after the platform labeled the news organization “state-affiliated media.” A spokesperson said that the outlet stopped posting from @NPR “after they attached that false label to it because each tweet we publish would carry it. We …

A New York grand jury today indicted Donald Trump on charges related to hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign, according to multiple media outlets. It’s a development that the former president has seized upon to rally his supporters against prosecutors. The news has been confirmed …

UPDATE, 12:39 PM ET: The judge presiding over Dominion’s defamation case against Fox pushed back on the network’s attorneys for their argument that Rupert Murdoch would be unable to testify live in the upcoming trial. In a hearing on Tuesday, Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric Davis cited a letter he …