The presidential election, pandemic and racial reckoning were stories that drove intense interest and engagement to news outlets in 2020.
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The decline was less steep but still significant at broadcast television evening newscasts: 12% at ABC’s “World News Tonight” and the “CBS Evening News;” 14% at NBC’s “Nightly News,” Nielsen said. Perhaps that was most obvious at the cable news networks. They built a prime-time model almost entirely focused on political combat during the Trump years, which made it difficult for them to pivot to something different, said Tom Rosenstiel, a journalism professor at the University of Maryland.[Most read] Our 10 favorite Tribune Food stories from 2021Those networks remain focused on politics even as viewership interest wanes.
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