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 | December 22, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Appearing as a guest on Wednesday’s Hardball, The Root political editor Jason Johnson told his fellow MSNBC panelists that Russian President Vladimir Putin was the biggest winner of 2016 because he succeeded where Mikhail Gorbachev and the late Fidel Castro couldn’t in “[taking] over the United States” via a “coup” through “Manchurian candidate…
Curtis Houck | December 20, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On the Tuesday edition of the Fox News Channel’s Special Report, Media Research Center president Brent Bozell and the show’s “All Star Panel” collaborated for a thorough trashing of the news media for their “sick, twisted,” and “ridiculous” narrative that the Electoral College could stop Donald Trump from becoming president. Bozell kicked off…
Curtis Houck | December 20, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Closing out Monday’s 11th Hour on MSNBC, host Brian Williams couldn’t help but join the chorus of media tributes to outgoing First Lady Michelle Obama as he hailed her as a “formidable presence” whose “future appears limitless.” Williams teed up a clip from the hour-long CBS special between Mrs. Obama and Oprah Winfrey by touting “Oprah's exit…
Curtis Houck | December 19, 2016
See more in the NB Staff post on the NewsBusters blog. On the Monday edition of the Fox Business Network’s Intelligence Report, Media Research Center president Brent Bozell reiterated his hope that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will keep “to his word” and maintain a genuine “interest at the top at Facebook to go after fake news not to go after policy.” However, Bozell warned that the MRC will “…
Curtis Houck | December 15, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Yes, folks, you read that headline right. Near the tail end of Wednesday’s Hardball, rapper Pharrell Williams lauded MSNBC host Chris Matthews for being someone Williams has “been watching...for years” because of “the way that you keep people straight” and slice through spin.  Williams was on-set with Matthews for a taped interview promoting…
Curtis Houck | December 14, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Based on the logic of MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews on Tuesday night, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Oklahoma conservative Scott Pruitt will have himself blame for “creating these nests of trouble” within the EPA and among its allies in the media even though Matthews conceded they…
Curtis Houck | December 14, 2016
[See NewsBusters for more.] The Media Research Center's Rich Noyes on Wednesday blasted the media’s “Hail Mary passes” to stop Donald Trump or undermine his presidency. Appearing on Fox Business, the research director spotlighted the failed recount attempts in Wisconsin, saying of the networks: “They have several minutes of air time in the networks. It wasn't laughed at.... Now we have had a…
Curtis Houck | December 13, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Amidst the discussion on MSNBC’s Hardball late Tuesday concerning President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to lead the State Department, host Chris Matthews was apoplectic at the notion that a Trump administration would “desecrate” Jerusalem by moving the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv.  Matthews emphasized…
Curtis Houck | December 12, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Monday, ABC’s World NewsTonight and NBC Nightly News saw no reason to keep their viewers abreast of two embarrassing failures in Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein’s recount efforts to alter the presidential election results as the recount ended in Wisconsin while a judge blocked it in Pennsylvania.  With ABC and NBC missing in…
Curtis Houck | December 12, 2016
See more in Randy Hall's post on the NewsBusters blog.