After 2024 Presidential Election Call, NewsNation Hopes for New Viewers in 2025

variety.com:

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor NewsNation wants its viewers to know the cable-news outlet is keeping an eye on them, no matter how complex the headlines may get in the weeks ahead.

The Nexstar-backed network is making a slight tweak to its slogan that it thinks carries outsize meaning. Starting Monday, NewsNation will tout itself as delivering “News For all Americans” instead of “News for All America.” As Thanksgiving approaches, the network hopes to emphasize that welcomes everyone to its screens, not just viewers who may have partisan leanings. “I think that’s the foundation, hearing from the people,” says Cherie Grzech, president and managing editor of news and politics for the network, which relaunched as NewsNation in 2020 after operating for years as WGN America, based on the Chicago superstation.

In months to come, she says, expect producers to “look for ways both in series and in potential town halls that will allow us to hear first and foremost from people versus the politicians or the parties,” getting takes on what the most important issues are and reactions and feedback to policies being put into practice.

Brian Entin, a senior national correspondent, spent weeks traveling across I-80 and nine different states, showing how individual voters and groups are more complex than simple “red” or “blue” labels.