On April 16, 2014, Sohn's, and the whole network's credibility were tested when one of JTBC's reporters asked a very controversial question to one of the survivors of the Sewol ferry sinking.
오늘(16일) 낮에 여객선 침몰 사고 속보를 전해드리는 과정에서 저희 앵커가 구조된 여학생에게 건넨 질문 때문에 많은 분들이 노여워 하셨습니다.
제가 그나마 배운 것을 선임자이자 책임자로서 후배 앵커에게 충분히 알려주지 못한 저의 탓이 가장 큽니다.
Today (16th of April), so many audience were angered by the question that our reporter asked a rescued student during our coverage on the ferry's sinking.
He even became a trending topic on Naver.com after he had a moment of silence while interviewing Baek Jeom-gi, a shipbuilding engineer professor at Busan University.
On 18 April, two days after the incident, Sohn had a ground-breaking interview with the deep sea diving expert Lee Jong-in.
[13] Sohn Suk-hee was praised by viewers as he was the only news presenter who covered the search and rescue efforts live from Jindo.
[22] JTBC assembled a special report team on October 3 to dig deeper into the Mir and K-Sports foundations,[23] consisting of the then-weekend presenter and Director of Politics Division 1 Jeon Jin-bae, Director of Social Affairs Division 2 Son Yong-seok and reporters Shim Soo-mi, Kim Pil-joon, Seo Bok-hyun, Shin Hye-won, Kim Tae-young and Park Byung-hyun.
The anonymous employee provided testimony and evidence showing Choi met frequently with the various heads of Mir and K-sports.
However, JTBC found out by examining the tablet that Choi also revised documents of President Park's remarks just hours before a meeting.
A JTBC reporter (Lee Ga-hyuk) also ran a live broadcast that day from outside one of Choi's abandoned homes in Germany, knocking on the door and interviewing neighbors.
[33] Later, the prosecution admitted they were aware of Choi having foreign residences and the overseas investigation, contradicting their previous claim of not knowing where she was.
On December 8, a day before Park's impeachment trial, Shim Soo-mi appeared on Newsroom to explain how they obtained the tablet.
After an internal meeting, Shim decided to return to the building and obtain the tablet while copying the files inside it, then submit it to the prosecution.
[35] In December 2019, Sohn Suk-hee announced his resignation as presenter of JTBC Newsroom following a large-scale organization reshuffle.
This marked JTBC's transition from the Trust Building in Digital Media City, which will now be used by JoongAng Ilbo, to the Creation Hall just beside it.
[46] Seo Bok-hyun and Ahn Na-kyung presented the second part of JTBC News' special election coverage titled Our Choice 2020: Ask, Vote.
Seo Bok-hyun and Ahn Na-kyung presented from the Gwangju special studio, while Han Min-yong joined them from Sangam-dong.
The United Daily News newspaper in Taiwan, considered one of the country's largest, highlighted the effort to emphasize the event's significance in an article posted on its website.
The segment is hosted by the former Political Desk National Assembly captain Yang Won-bo and reports on stories with a lighthearted tone.
On July 8, 2020, a new segment named "Economic Innovations" (발품경제) began, hosted by Lee Joo-chan of the consumer lifestyle team.
On December 7, 2020, the show once again underwent reorganization with the first time slot change in the weekday edition in six years and a new Fact Check host, Choi Jae-won.
Oh Dae-young (social issues), Jung Jae-yoon (international affairs) and Lee Seung-nyeong (economy) joined the show as well as Park Sung-tae (politics), whose "Behind Plus" segment ran on weekends.
Media Today first reported on May 25 that another large-scale JTBC News reorganization is scheduled to happen on June 7 in an effort to save the show from dismal ratings.
[50] Oh Dae-young is set to replace Seo Bok-hyun as main anchor, with both Ahn Na-kyung and Han Min-yong retaining their respective positions.
As the presidential and local elections passed, the program's start time changed again to 7:50pm KST and the runtime reverted to 60 minutes.
Another major reorganization loomed in the horizon with the program's third anchor change since 2020, with former Washington correspondent and then-head of news production Lim Jong-joo and weekend anchor Han Min-yong set to take over current presenters Oh Dae-young and Ahn Na-kyung on a yet-to-be-announced date, according to a Media Today report on July 5, 2022.
The reorganization was set to take effect that November, which also included a brand new format every Friday where people can watch the program inside their headquarters live.
Mydaily reported about another anchor change,[54] this time with both Park Sung-tae and Ahn Na-kyung leaving the program, the latter after nine years of being the sub-presenter, with seven of these in the weekday edition in the longest-serving Newsroom tenure ever.
In addition, she is the youngest main anchor of a Korean flagship newscast ever, taking over just two days shy of her 34th birthday on July 19.