In 2020 I had 244 bylines on CNN.com. I used this list of every single story to choose the most memorable ones. This is in reverse chronological order, from December back to January…
Experts warn about the radicalizing power of right-wing media networks
A day of news that captured the best and worst of 2020
Mark Shields, political analyst on PBS ‘NewsHour,’ is stepping down after 33 years with the network
Disney+ announcements are an ‘earth-shaking’ development in the streaming wars
As Covid-19 deaths hit a numbing record, ‘our hearts and our minds block out the enormity of it’
Taxpayer-funded news outlet Voice of America subjected to more leadership turmoil
Newsmax TV scores a ratings win over Fox News for the first time ever
The end of the Trump era has the cable news wars heating up
MSNBC is getting a new president, the first Black person to run a major cable news network
Biden’s media diet: Newspapers, magazines, books, and Apple News
‘No fake news:’ Biden and Harris sit down for a ‘very normal’ interview with Jake Tapper
Covid-19 is a ‘split screen’ scenario heading into 2021. Here’s how the news media should cover it
‘Firehose of falsehood:’ How Trump is trying to confuse the public about the election outcome
Fox News staffers thought Newsmax was a joke. But they’re not laughing anymore
Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham start to adjust to the reality of a Biden presidency
Biden aides fill the void on TV while Trump remains off the air
Election denialism is a middle finger to democracy
Post-election media coverage reveals two Americas on parallel tracks
Obama’s highly anticipated book ‘A Promised Land’ sells 890,000 copies on its first day
Two weeks after the election, far-right TV shows are providing false hope to Trump fans
Obama’s book tour doubles as a warning about ‘deeply divided’ media landscape
The Trump-Fox News relationship is coming to a head. Here’s what might be coming next
Trump voters are flocking to a TV channel that claims Biden is not president-elect
Five alarm fire: How right-wing media is encouraging Trump’s election denialism
Trump election dead-enders have a home on Fox News and right-wing radio
Biden aide: The president-elect knows the media’s job is to ‘hold him accountable’
Analysis: Are Fox News and Murdoch world turning on Trump?
The election might be driving us crazy — but massive ratings and traffic show no one’s turning away
Fox News tells anchors not to call Biden ‘President-elect,’ then seems to change its tune
Analysis: In a moment of truth for America, Biden leads with facts while Trump leads with feelings
Fox News and AP scrutinized for projecting Arizona while other outlets hold off
For the media, 13 burning questions that the election may start to answer
‘Surreal.’ Reporters share what it was like to cover the Trump and Biden campaigns
What will TV and social networks do if Trump prematurely declares victory?
Analysis: Fox News is misleading its audience about Trump’s election chances
Analysis: Election Day is also a referendum on Trump’s era of ‘fake news’
Nine things the press should do as 2020′s election season nears an end
Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation triggers a prime time celebration by the GOP
Fox News management says there are a ‘few positive COVID-19 cases’ at the company
Analysis: The year 2020 is defined by lines
More than 63 million people watched the final presidential debate
More than 57 million people watched the vice presidential debate
Both left and right praise debate moderator Kristen Welker while Trump keeps fact-checkers busy
Some Americans are just tuning into the election now. Here’s the news they really need
Jeffrey Toobin suspended from New Yorker, on leave from CNN, after he exposed himself on Zoom call
More people watched Biden on ABC than Trump on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC
Savannah Guthrie’s questions at NBC’s town hall exposed Trump’s warped information diet
Why NBC is getting lots of grief about its Trump town hall
Trump thrived in the ‘attention economy,’ but now he is hitting its limits
Despite disinformation, there is ample evidence that the truth still matters
With town hall debate canceled, Biden and Trump seek out their own town halls
Susan Page praised for questions but criticized for failing to follow up during VP debate
Analysis: The reality TV President won’t miss the next debate, no matter what he says now
It’s now up to journalists to get to the truth about Trump’s health
New York Times reporter infected with Covid-19 says the White House is not doing contact tracing
Americans are relying on leaks for information about Trump’s health
Analysis: Why Trump’s newest credibility crisis feels like deja vu
As Trump is treated for coronavirus, the press can’t lose sight of the nationwide story
Journalists who work at the White House are testing positive for Covid-19
Trump downplayed Hope Hicks’ Covid diagnosis on Fox hours before announcing he also tested positive
Failure of imagination: Why Trump can still shock the media
Trump-Biden clash was watched by at least 73 million viewers
Analysis: US presidential debate quickly devolves into disgrace without strong moderation
Dr. Anthony Fauci says some Fox News coverage of the pandemic is ‘outlandish’
The New York Times’ coverage of Trump’s taxes is an emperor-has-no-clothes moment
The media needs to do more to show real Americans’ pain during the pandemic
New signs of Covid-19 complacency even as the American death toll nears another dreaded milestone
‘He was lying through his teeth.’ ABC town hall participants weigh in on Trump’s performance
Trump says weekly calls on ‘Fox & Friends’ are returning; Fox says maybe not
While Trump defies coronavirus safety guidelines at rally, TV networks exercise caution
What to read and watch on the 19th anniversary of 9/11
Bob Woodward’s reporting prompts the question: What if Trump had risen to the occasion?
What a time capsule of 6-month-old headlines tells us about coronavirus now
Analysis: Fox News segment prompts Trump to target diversity training
Trump calls on Fox News to fire reporter who confirmed some parts of Atlantic story
Biden had a bigger TV audience for his convention, but Trump keeps declaring victory anyway
Stelter: America’s problems are real, but the news coverage needs to keep it in proportion
Biden hits Trump where it hurts: in the convention speech ratings
QAnon is conspiratorial, dangerous, and growing. And we’re talking about it all wrong.
As Tucker Carlson justifies violence, Fox News is paying him $10 million a year
Trump insists he doesn’t watch much TV despite years of evidence to the contrary
Sean Hannity receives special White House access for Republican convention
“Hoax” book excerpt: At Fox News, ‘the inmates are running the asylum’
Voices from Fox News to MSNBC praise Joe Biden’s acceptance speech
First night of 2020 DNC TV ratings down 25% from 2016
The Democratic convention in the age of a pandemic: hundreds of live feeds and four stages
GOP congressman Adam Kinzinger urges Republican leaders to denounce QAnon
Journalists mourn the loss of newsrooms as publishers give up office space to save money
Stelter: Trump has taken up residence at his own Potemkin Village
From Belarus to Hong Kong, journalists ‘are bearing the brunt of the global surge in repression’
Democratic women leaders call out sexist news coverage of female vice presidential candidates
Three top executives depart WarnerMedia as CEO Jason Kilar announces focus on HBO Max
Why ‘negative partisanship’ explains so many of America’s political problems
James Murdoch resigns from News Corp, citing ‘disagreements over certain editorial content’
Stelter: The threat to democracy we all should have seen coming
Reese Schonfeld, CNN’s founding president, has died at 88
Why Fox News’ Jesse Watters seized on QAnon
As Major League Baseball begins to play ball again, advertisers clamor for ad time
Fox News parts ways with a morning host who caused a Covid-19 scare
How Fox News has changed in the four years since Roger Ailes was ousted
Right-wing media plays up Portland protest ‘violence’
New poll reaffirms that most Americans don’t trust the President, but they do trust Dr. Fauci
Journalists are demystifying Covid-19 by sharing first-hand accounts on what it’s like to be sick
Mary Trump is releasing a book. Michael Cohen is finishing a book. Both are being restricted
MSNBC’s Joy Reid to host new evening newscast ‘The ReidOut’
As Twitter and Facebook find fake networks of accounts, are they merely scratching the surface?
Former Fox News anchor Shep Smith heads to CNBC to host evening newscast
Mary Trump’s scathing book claims Trump paid someone to take his SATs
The explosive tell-all book by Trump’s niece is coming out two weeks earlier than expected
From Disney to NASCAR, brands are breaking away from the president’s racial rhetoric
White House hasn’t approved requests for TV interviews with Fauci, official says
What the Russian bounty leaks really say about the Trump administration
GOP senators express outrage over mass firings at global media agency led by Trump and Bannon ally
Ed Henry fired from Fox News over sexual misconduct allegation
John Bolton’s memoir has sold a staggering 780,000 copies in its first week on sale
The fates of two leading newspaper publishers are up in the air
WarnerMedia plans to sell CNN Center
Pro-Trump media outlets are in denial as many states report new surge in coronavirus cases
Hannity’s town hall with Trump and evidence of an ‘information tragedy’
Bolton says his best seller about Trump is ‘a book about how not to be president’
‘Wednesday night massacre’ as Trump appointee takes over at global media agency
Trump says coronavirus is ‘dying out;’ Dr. Sanjay Gupta says the virus is not dying
Former Trump adviser John Bolton’s impending book elicits angry reaction from President Trump
Voice of America top officials resign as Trump-appointed CEO takes over international network
Trump’s latest target on Twitter: Comcast
Tucker Carlson ad boycott causes headaches for Fox News
Conservative media is living in the past as unrest subsides across the US
In newsrooms, ‘a raging debate over the role journalists should be playing’
White House turns press corps into anti-social distancing props
Stelter: Trump encourages people not to believe their eyes, ears or lungs
ACLU files suit on behalf of journalists in Minnesota
Journalists covering protests face assault and arrest
Arresting reporters at a protest is an affront to the First Amendment
Trump tweets threat that ‘looting’ will lead to ‘shooting.’ Twitter put a warning label on it
USA Today front page honors the Americans who have died from coronavirus
He asked Twitter to remove Trump’s false tweets about his dead wife. Twitter refused
Twitter remains silent about Trump’s appalling attack against Joe Scarborough
New York Times publishes names of 1,000 lives lost to coronavirus”
In public, Trump bashed Fox. Behind closed doors, he had a friendly chat with its top correspondent
News industry lobbyists say Congress needs to include relief in next stimulus package
Matt Lauer responds to rape allegation from Ronan Farrow’s ‘Catch & Kill’
Phyllis George, pioneering sportscaster and former Miss America, has died
News reporters become subjects of ire at anti-lockdown protests
Fox News staffers will continue working from home through mid-June, according to new memo
New York attorney general has investigated harassment allegations at NBC News
CNN sends Trump campaign cease-and-desist letter for misleading ad
Andy Lack, NBC News chairman, out in reorganization
CBS News’ Lesley Stahl recovers from Covid-19
Stelter: Hard times call for hard truths from public officials
World Press Freedom Day in the ‘coronavirus crackdown’
Anderson Cooper announces the birth of his son Wyatt: ‘Our family continues’
Americans confront the coronavirus stress test in very different ways
Writing about the dead during a pandemic: ‘They are not a statistic or data point’
Nearly three quarters of US senators call on Trump administration to help local news
YouTube CEO says people are discovering different kinds of videos as the pandemic rages
Trump’s inconsistent coronavirus messaging ‘compromises public trust,’ former surgeon general says
A new generation of White House reporters hold Trump accountable
Piers Morgan says his friend President Trump is ‘failing the American people’
“It’s OK to not be OK right now.” A month of grief, worry and frustration
During a national emergency, Trump clings to his television home, Fox News
Propaganda on full display at Trump’s latest coronavirus task force briefing
‘What Day Is It?’ and other ways media companies are getting creative amid the pandemic
Stelter: Federal response to pandemic is a 9/11-level failure
Chris Cuomo shares covid-19 experience: ‘The beast comes at night’
WarnerMedia names Hulu’s founding CEO as new chief
Journalists challenge Trump’s ‘revisionist history’ regarding coronavirus response
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo diagnosed with coronavirus; he will continue working from home
Trump is self-isolating at his safe space: Fox News
Facebook is giving $25 million to news organizations, and spending $75 million more to help
CBS journalist Maria Mercader dies at 54 of coronavirus
As coronavirus death toll rises, Trump focuses on a different set of numbers: TV ratings
Trump in crisis mode uses Hannity interview to attack the media and Democratic governors
The scariest aspects of the coronavirus are what we can’t see on TV
Broadcasters adapt to social distancing and the new realities of covering a pandemic
How the Fox News presidency has politicized a national health crisis
Global coronavirus crisis inspires creativity and kindness
Doctors using TV and social media to sound the alarm: ‘We need masks today’
Virus shutdowns prompt sweeping questions about the future of news and entertainment
Dr. Sanjay Gupta urges Americans to stay home: ‘We’re in this together’
Broadway, symphonies and employers come up with creative solutions to coronavirus shutdowns
Newsrooms exercise caution as coronavirus pandemic continues
CBS News gets first-hand experience with coronavirus, disrupting its New York operations
AT&T tells employees to work from home
The great shutdown of 2020: How newsrooms and media companies are adapting
The day coronavirus became real for millions of Americans
Media companies encourage employees to work from home as virus spreads
Tucker Carlson delivers coronavirus warning as his Fox colleagues attack media’s coverage
Trump makes spurious claims about coronavirus in phone call with Sean Hannity
Bloomberg News staffers breathe a sigh of relief after Mike Bloomberg drops out
John Bolton’s book has been delayed until May due to White House review
Chris Matthews retires from MSNBC after string of recent controversies
Joe Biden sees an ‘earned media tsunami’ after a night of endorsements
The power, and limits, of Pete Buttigieg’s ‘press-friendly strategy’
How health officials and social media are teaming up to fight the coronavirus ‘infodemic’
Despite criticism, more than 15.3 million people tuned into chaotic Democratic debate on CBS
Trump’s war on truth takes a dangerous turn as he attacks the media’s coronavirus coverage
Bob Iger steps down as Disney CEO. Bob Chapek replaces him
Reporters who investigated Harvey Weinstein react to his conviction
What is MSNBC’s problem with Bernie Sanders?
Beijing expels three Wall Street Journal reporters
Michael Bloomberg still has multiple opportunities to qualify for Wednesday’s debate
Justice Department drama is temporarily overshadowed by New Hampshire primary results
Longtime CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera running against AOC
Right-wing media condemn Mitt Romney after GOP senator casts vote to convict Trump
Nancy Pelosi ripping Donald Trump’s speech may not have been planned, but it was effective
White House excludes CNN from annual pre-SOTU lunch with news anchors
Rush Limbaugh says he has been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer
For newsrooms, a ‘balancing act’ between Iowa caucuses and the impeachment trial
Sean Hannity will face a big audience and scrutiny during Trump Super Bowl interview
Democratic senators take to Fox News airwaves to score points for Trump’s impeachment
NPR wants answers from Pompeo after State Department removes reporter from trip
Ben Smith is leaving BuzzFeed for the New York Times
John Bolton goes from Fox News contributor to subject of criticism
State Department drops NPR from Pompeo trip after Ukraine dust-up
John Bolton’s memoir, ‘The Room Where It Happened,’ gets March 17 release date
Longtime PBS NewsHour anchor Jim Lehrer is dead at 85
Cable, not broadcast, is the main stage for Trump’s impeachment trial
Sean Hannity says Republicans shouldn’t give impeachment trial ‘one iota of legitimacy’
Chicago Tribune staffers seek new owners amid fears of hedge fund takeover
Capitol Hill press corps shows support for Manu Raju after GOP senator’s smear
How the pro-Trump echo chamber has changed impeachment
Final debate before Iowa caucuses scores 7.8 million viewers
Stelter: The ‘projector in chief’ poses a perpetual challenge for journalists
The Salt Lake Tribune’s switch to nonprofit status may inspire other newspapers to do the same
In ten years, the number of scripted shows on American TV has more than doubled
Trump schedules another interview with Fox as concerns about credibility persist
‘Fox & Friends’ rally around Trump after missile attack: The Iranians are ‘terrified of us’
It is patriotic to question America’s leaders in wartime
Rush Limbaugh renews radio show contract in a ‘long-term’ deal
Fox’s Tucker Carlson breaks with colleagues and criticizes Trump’s strike on Iranian general
‘Tune out the noise,’ plus other New Year’s resolutions from media and tech executives