Verizon Shuts FiOS1 News & We’re Back to Square One

Jaci Clement
5 min readAug 22, 2019

Follow the money.

Another week of heavily-laden headlines focusing on the further demise of local news — this time, the story centering on FiOS1 News.

In a nutshell: Verizon is pulling the plug on its contract with RNN News, which supplies the news content (but does not sell the advertising) for FiOS1 News, effective Nov. 15. It’s not what was wanted…

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Jaci Clement

Considered the most influential media scholar in the world today, Jaci Clement has been working for and with news media since the fourth grade.