Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis Category Truth Under Fire Breaking the Deadlock Network: PBS This year’s awards will be held in two consecutive ceremonies at the Palladium Times Square Theater in New York City, on Wednesday, May 27 and Thursday, May 28.
Originally posted at Axios Andy Lack, former chair of NBC News and MSNBC and co-founder and executive chair of Deep South Today, a network of local nonprofit newsrooms in Louisiana and Mississippi, is committing $7 million to support nonprofit journalism, he told Axios in an interview. Why it matters: The new funds, in addition to the […]
Veteran journalist and media executive Andrew Lack recently spoke at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication during the event “Democracy in the Balance,” a discussion focused on journalism’s role in sustaining democratic dialogue. In conversation with SJMC Director Kathleen Bartzen Culver, Lack shared insights from his decades-long career leading major news […]
The PBS public affairs series Breaking the Deadlock premiered its first new episode of 2026 on Tuesday night, tackling complex questions about personal freedom and the role of government. The episode, titled “A Matter of Life and Death,” featured a moving segment with social justice activist and writer Brittany Packnett Cunningham. She shared her personal […]
Media veterans Andy Lack and Andrew Morse shared their insights with more than 200
Andy was at NBC with Stephanie Ruhle on Oct 20 on her show, “The 11th Hour,” to promote a program for PBS that actually Stephanie’s featured in called “Breaking the Deadlock.” They had a lot of fun talking about how do we get people to talk to each other. That’s what Breaking the Deadlock means: talking […]
The Emmy Award®-nominated GBH series “BREAKING the DEADLOCK”
Andy Lack, former chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, joined Dylan to examine the crises facing television news—from CBS’s Trump settlement to MSNBC’s uncertain future. He also shared his latest venture: launching local news startups across the Deep South to build sustainable journalism amid mounting challenges.
JPMorganChase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon, Mississippi businessman Tommy Duff and award-winning journalists joined local civic changemakers and hundreds of attendees.
As part of his ongoing commitment to powerful investigative journalism, especially at the local level in the South, Andy Lack presented the top investigative journalism award at the 85th Annual Peabody Awards in Los Angeles to Phil Williams of WTVF-News channel 5 Nashville for his series “Confronting Hate.” As described by Peabody, Phil uncovered “…the […]