NewsBusters Managing Editor

Curtis Houck currently serves as the Managing Editor of NewsBusters after almost two years as a news analyst in the Media Research Center’s News Analysis Division. During that time, he served as the sole evening news analyst, chronicling the best and worst of the network evening newscasts, primetime cable shows, and late-night comedy programs. From January 2016 to April 2016, he also acted as the Sunday news analyst for NewsBusters.

In the ten years that he's been with NewsBusters, his work has been featured on various Fox News Channel programs and outlets such as The Blaze, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, Drudge Report, The Federalist, FoxNews.com, Los Angeles TimesThe Mark Levin Show, Mediaite, New York Times, Red State, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Resurgent, TownhallWashington Examiner, Washington Free Beacon, The Washington PostThe Washington Times, and The Wrap. He’s also made over 600 television appearances on the Fox News Channel, Newsmax, One America News Network, America's Voice, Cheddar, The First TV, Fox 5 D.C., NRA-TV, and over 1,000 radio appearances from coast to coast on both local and syndicated programs. His articles and tweets have been shared by conservative leaders such as Dan Bongino, Erick Erickson, Greg Gutfeld, Mark Levin, Kayleigh McEnany, Stephen Miller, Dave Rubin, Ryan Saavedra, and Ben Shapiro.

He returned full-time to the MRC after serving in summer 2013 as an intern with CNS News. Curtis is a 2014 graduate of Penn State University with Bachelor of Arts degrees in History and Political Science. He also had the pleasure of interning with The Heritage Foundation in fall 2013. A proud native of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania, Curtis is also an Eagle Scout and lives with his wife in Alexandria, Virginia.

Curtis Houck | June 13, 2025
Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! The embodiment of the kind of acceptable liberal journalist to today’s left, CBS Evening News Plus has always ended with anchor John Dickerson let it rip on whatever issue he desires weighing in on. Increasingly, it’s been political and snide, giving his opinion on how much he loathes Trump and the MAGA agenda. Thursday was no exception…
Curtis Houck | June 10, 2025
Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! In the Trump era, MSNBC’s Deadline: White House has served as the hotbed of apocalyptic, deranged rhetoric and almost encouraging defining your mental health on our politics. Monday’s show opened with host Nicolle Wallace by saying America’s in “a uniquely alarming moment” with Trump using “an unfolding situation as a political…
Curtis Houck | June 10, 2025
Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! In the Trump era, MSNBC’s Deadline: White House has served as the hotbed of apocalyptic, deranged rhetoric and almost encouraging defining your mental health on our politics. Monday’s show opened with host Nicolle Wallace by saying America’s in “a uniquely alarming moment” with Trump using “an unfolding situation as a political…
Curtis Houck | June 9, 2025
Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Following a weekend of far-left riots laid waste to parts of Los Angeles and shutdown vital thoroughfares, ABC, CBS, and NBC used their lead Monday morning news shows to show sympathy with the “anti-ICE” “demonstrators” and “protesters” grappling with President Trump’s “remarkable and unprecedented escalation” by sending in the…
Curtis Houck | June 9, 2025
Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Following a weekend of far-left riots laid waste to parts of Los Angeles and shutdown vital thoroughfares, ABC, CBS, and NBC used their lead Monday morning news shows to show sympathy with the “anti-ICE” “demonstrators” and “protesters” grappling with President Trump’s “remarkable and unprecedented escalation” by sending in the…
Curtis Houck | June 6, 2025
Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Wednesday’s CBS Mornings and CBS Mornings Plus featured exclusive, heartbreaking interviews with the family of Sarah Miligrim, who was murdered by an alleged far-left anti-Semite last month outside the Capital Jewish Museum. After the segment on the latter show, co-host Adriana Diaz tried to insinuate there’s some equal risk of threats…
Curtis Houck | June 6, 2025
Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Wednesday’s CBS Mornings and CBS Mornings Plus featured exclusive, heartbreaking interviews with the family of Sarah Miligrim, who was murdered by an alleged far-left anti-Semite last month outside the Capital Jewish Museum. After the segment on the latter show, co-host Adriana Diaz tried to insinuate there’s some equal risk of threats…
Curtis Houck | June 5, 2025
Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! On Thursday during the third hour on FNC’s Fox & Friends, senior White House correspondent and Briefing Room purveyor Peter Doocy excoriated Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre over her proclamation that she’s left the Democrat Party and has penned a book Independent with a subtitle implying the place she worked for…
Curtis Houck | June 5, 2025
Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Few foreign leaders in recent decades have engendered as much fawning, pathetic adulation in the American liberal media like New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern, who served as the leftist prime minister from 2017 to 2023 and thus, with a memoir out, they’d be lining up to sing her praises. Tuesday’s CBS Mornings filled that quota with co-host…
Curtis Houck | June 4, 2025
Check out the link to the full post here from NewsBusters! Since launching the CBS Evening News Plus, anchor John Dickerson has ended the show with a “Reporter’s Notebook” segment disguised as an often partisan commentary (and not that he needs one given the absurdity of his CBS Evening News the half-hour prior), but for Tuesday’s installment, he ghoulishly tied rural health care and men’s…