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 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 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.

Curtis Houck | November 25, 2015
See more in Brad Wilmouth's post on the NewsBusters blog.
Curtis Houck | November 25, 2015
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Closing out the Wednesday edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell remarked how the presidential candidacy of Republican Senator Ted Cruz (Tex) would have been sunk and declared “a non-starter” under so-called normal circumstances due to so many of Cruz’s Senate colleagues having a disdain for him. Mitchell was speaking…
Curtis Houck | November 25, 2015
See more in Brad Wilmouth's post on the NewsBusters blog.
Curtis Houck | November 25, 2015
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. While awaiting President Barack Obama’s remarks on Wednesday concerning national security as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, ABC News chief anchor, former Clinton staffer, and Clinton Foundation donor George Stephanopoulos couldn’t help but repeatedly gush over the President’s supposedly “forceful rhetoric” on ISIS following the Paris…
Curtis Houck | November 25, 2015
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Taking its cues from Monday’s New York Times, Wednesday’s CBS This Morning offered a similarly fawning profile of some young girls in California who are “scouting for change” as they try to force the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to admit them as members as they preferred the BSA over the Girl Scouts.  Co-host Noah O’Donnell teased the upcoming…
Curtis Houck | November 25, 2015
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Following in the footsteps of Monday’s CBS This Morning, the CBS Evening News featured on Tuesday a segment sounding the alarm on opposition to the U.S. accepting Syrian refugees with the comparison that those Syrians who have settled in the U.S. are facing “another brewing problem” in those opposed to their settlement (after having survived…
Curtis Houck | November 24, 2015
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The latest verbal battle between Megyn Kelly and liberal Fox News contributor Richard Fowler took place during Tuesday’s Kelly File over a Black Lives Matter activist getting right up to the face of a Chicago police officer as live coverage unfolded of protests in Chicago related to the shooting death of LaQuan McDonald.  Kelly alluded to the…
Curtis Houck | November 24, 2015
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In NBC Nightly News’s coverage of President Obama’s Tuesday meeting with French President Hollande, the newscast complained that Turkey’s decision to shoot down a Russian fighter jet had “managed to overshadow” the “crucial meeting at the White House” and further “derailed” an attempt to forge a more cohesive coalition to fight ISIS with Russia…
Curtis Houck | November 24, 2015
See more in Brad Wilmouth's post on the NewsBusters blog.
Curtis Houck | November 23, 2015
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Amidst all the news about gas prices and weather forecasts for this Thanksgiving week, Monday’s morning and evening newscasts on ABC and NBC found no time to mention that Washington Post reporter and U.S. citizen Jason Rezaian had been sentenced by Iran’s Revolutionary Court to an unspecified prison term after being detained in July 2014. A…