Curtis Houck

NewsBusters Managing Editor

CurtisHouck

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 eight 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 Times, The Mark Levin Show, Mediaite, New York Times, Red State, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Resurgent, Townhall, Washington Examiner, Washington Free Beacon, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and The Wrap. He’s also made over 200 television appearances on the Fox News Channel, Newsmax, One America News Network, America's Voice, Cheddar, Fox 5 D.C., NRA-TV, and over 700 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 in Vienna, Virginia.

CBS, NBC Continue to Omit ‘Conservative’ Tag in Descriptions of Rand Paul

Curtis Houck | April 7, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Following Republican Senator Rand Paul’s announcement that he’ll be entering the 2016 presidential race, the major broadcast networks each devoted a full segment to the Kentucky Senator’s event in Louisville on their Tuesday night newscasts. After all three networks declined to label Paul a conservative during their morning news shows, ABC’s…

NBC Nightly News Uses D.C. Power Outage to Argue for More Infrastructure Spending

Curtis Houck | April 7, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On the heels of a power outage that struck key government buildings in Washington D.C. and surrounding areas in the Maryland suburbs on Tuesday, NBC Nightly News seized on the story to advocate for the increased infrastructure funding and the need to defend against “cyber attacks.” In a tease at the top of the broadcast, interim anchor Lester…

NBC Cheers New Clinton Staffer While Promoting ‘Embarrassing Situation’ for Jeb Bush

Curtis Houck | April 6, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. After NBC’s Today touted the latest hire for Hillary Clinton’s expected presidential campaign, Monday’s NBC Nightly News also gushed over the move in addition to blasting possible Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush for creating an “embarrassing situation” by identifying as a Hispanic on a voter registration form. Interim anchor Lester…

NBC Pushes Hope ‘Some Minds’ 'May be Changing’ on Iran Framework

Curtis Houck | April 6, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. During its coverage of the Iran framework on Monday, NBC Nightly News touted the hopes of proponents and the Obama administration that the “details of a deal may be changing” the minds of “some” critics as President Obama and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz began selling the agreement in press conferences, interviews, and calls with world leaders…

Networks Again Hail Iran Framework; ‘Legacy Defining Moment Now Within Reach’ for Obama

Curtis Houck | April 3, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The favorable coverage of the agreed framework for future talks over Iran’s nuclear program continued on Friday morning as the network newscasts hailed the “legacy defining moment now within reach” for President Obama and compared Iranian “hardliners” to deal skeptics in the U.S. and Israel. Today co-host Savannah Guthrie began the program’s…

NBC Nightly News Moves on from Scandal Involving Democratic Senator Menendez

Curtis Houck | April 3, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. NBC became the first network to move on from the scandal involving Democratic Senator Robert Menendez (N.J.) on Thursday as NBC Nightly News made zero mention of the story and that entered a plea of not guilty in a Newark, New Jersey federal courtroom. As fellow networks ABC and CBS, ABC’s World News Tonight aired a one-minute-and-25-second…

ABC, NBC Tout ‘a New Era’ and ‘Historic Deal’ with Iran

Curtis Houck | April 2, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Thursday night, ABC and NBC cheered the “historic” agreement on the outline of a nuclear deal with Iran as “the United States could be entering a new era in its relationship” with the world’s leading state-sponsor of terrorism. Reporting from Lausanne, Switzerland for NBC Nightly News, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell…

CBS’s Pelley: Middle East Chaos Not ‘What’ Obama ‘Had in Mind’ in Cairo Speech from 2009

Curtis Houck | April 2, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Wednesday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Scott Pelley devoted a few moments after a news brief on the Iran deal negotiations to explaining the centuries-long divide between the Shia and Sunni branches of Islam and, in the process, also took time to reflect on President Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo, Egypt on June 4, 2009. After noting that the…

Networks Attack Indiana, Arkansas Bills; CBS, NBC Skip Threats Against Indiana Pizza Shop

Curtis Houck | April 1, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Following five straight days where the network evening newscasts slammed Indiana for passing its Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), Arkansas joined the barrage of criticism on Wednesday after Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson requested the legislature make changes to its own version that had passed on Tuesday. In a example of bias…

CBS Downplays Indictment of Democratic Senator Robert Menendez

Curtis Houck | April 1, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. While all three of the major broadcast networks covered the indictment of Democratic Senator Robert Menendez (N.J.) on Wednesday night, the CBS Evening News chose to largely downplay the news by spending just 22 seconds on the story and hailed Menendez as someone “who often seems to relish a fight.” Additionally, the “big three” of ABC, CBS,…