Howard Kurtz Announces New Fox Sunday Show, Media Buzz

 

On Monday afternoon, former Reliable Sources host Howard Kurtz announced his new Fox News show, Media Buzz, which will debut on September 8th at 11 a.m.

“The one-hour show will focus on the state of the news media in addition to the media’s shaping of current events and their role in politics while also featuring interviews with leading journalists and commentators,” Fox said in a release.

In addition to Kurtz’s media criticism, the show will “analyze how social media has evolved and the effect it has had throughout the industry, including the stories that are most popular over the various social networks and how pundits use those mediums to deliver their specific narrative.”

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Kurtz announced the show via Twitter:

Before departing for Fox in June, Kurtz was the host of CNN’s Reliable Sources for fifteen years, where he critiqued the media every Sunday afternoon. He also recently left the Daily Beast after the publication was retracted his article about Jason Collins.

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