BRIAN THOMPSON

September 26, 2007 - 11:34am

Fern Thompson, mother of reporter, dies

Fern Thompson, the mother of WNBC-TV reporter Brian Thompson, passed away early this morning.   She was 88 and lived in Madison, Wisconsin.

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October 23, 2007 - 11:59pm

At The Record, the columnists dominate

Next time someone criticizes New York-based network news coverage of local politics in New Jersey, consider this: WNBC-TV’s Brian Thompson covered the mass defection of Lyndhurst Republicans, but The Record – Bergen County’s daily newspaper -- did not.   This cycle, The Record’s columnists, specifically Charles Stile, Alfred Doblin and Herb Jackson, have been at the top of their game, and clearly dominating political coverage.  Stile broke the story that Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli traveled to Italy on a vacation with State Senator Joseph Coniglio, the target of a federal criminal probe.  It took The Record a week to run an editorial on Molinelli, and they never actually covered it as a news story.

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