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 | May 9, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In an utterance that could only be described as outrageous and irresponsible, MSNBC hosts Tamron Hall and Thomas Roberts went unchallenged by their combined four guests Monday morning and afternoon as they claimed that Bill Clinton’s voluminous instances of marital infidelity were just “alleged affairs” or “alleged misconduct” in context of…
Curtis Houck | May 6, 2016
See more in P.J. Gladnick's post on the NewsBusters blog.
Curtis Houck | May 6, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Making sure that it draws as many viewers as possible to avoid cancellation, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow repeatedly hailed the launch of Joy Reid’s weekend show during her eponymous show Thursday night as a significant move for “one of the smartest, best-informed, and most acutely observant voices in any media” that’s truly “a blessing” for news…
Curtis Houck | May 5, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Coming off a two-hour Hardball on Wednesday, MSNBC brought suffering viewers back to just one hour on Thursday, but host Chris Matthews made sure they got their money’s worth by presenting his closing Let Me Finish segment as “a Shakespearean choice facing Republicans this year” in “[t]o be a Republican or not to be” with presidential candidate…
Curtis Houck | May 5, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Speaking with host Erica Hill on MSNBC Thursday afternoon, Iowa conservative radio talk show host Steve Deace reiterated his commitment to the Never Trump movement and after comparing Donald Trump to Superman villain Lex Luthor, promised that he feels “no moral imperative whatsoever to help Lex Luthor finish off his memoirs.” When pressed by…
Curtis Houck | May 4, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. MSNBC viewers were treated to two hours of Hardball Wednesday night following Donald Trump being anointed the presumptive GOP presidential nominee and while previewing the believed match-up of Trump and Hillary Clinton, host Chris Matthews and a guest mocked Hillary Clinton scandals as “garbage” and conservatives invoking the 2012 terror attack…
Curtis Houck | May 4, 2016
See more in Randy Hall's post on the NewsBusters blog.
Curtis Houck | May 4, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Hillary Clinton gave her first interview following Donald Trump being anointed as the presumptive 2016 Republican presidential nominee Wednesday afternoon and in the midst of a classic softball, scandal-free interview by CNN's Anderson Cooper, Clinton demanded her liberal media friends “make the tough decisions” and “get serious” in attacking…
Curtis Houck | May 4, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Lacking any self-examination whatsoever, failed McCain campaign head and MSNBC political analyst Steve Schmidt lashed out late Wednesday evening on Mark Levin as the embodiment of “narcissism” and “self-aggrandizers” who have created a “cancer” that’s led “the demise of the conservative movement in the Republican Party.” If Schmidt wasn’t…