LOL: Stewart, Maddow, PBS, and Others Given Walter Cronkite Awards

December 10th, 2025 2:09 PM

For elite journalists, being compared to Walter Cronkite is considered a great honor, so when the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism announced their 2025 Walter Cronkite Awards for excellence in political journalism on Wednesday, it gave insight into who the industry views as the best of the best. For everybody else, the 2025 winners were a…

Jose Diaz-Balart Teams Up with Telemundo for a Sympathetic Portrait of

August 14th, 2014 4:00 PM
International human trafficking is a lucrative, exploitative, and deadly criminal enterprise, often operated by ruthless drug cartels who don’t mind branching out into sex trafficking. So it was a little shocking that Jose Diaz-Balart gave a platform to a fellow journalists who evinced some sympathy for the plight of the smugglers. On the August 14 edition of his eponymous MSNBC program,…