Jeff Daniels isn't just gonna wait for his bosses' approval to report that The Newsroom has been renewed 

Always willing to go rogue and say the things his corporate cable overlords are too afraid to in a TV show, Jeff Daniels has taken it upon himself to declare that The Newsroom will get a third season—even if HBO doesn’t like it, or hasn’t actually made an official announcement. But that’s just the sort of maverick-y, truth-to-power-speaking Daniels pretends to do as principled anchorman Will McAvoy, who similarly wouldn’t sit back and wait for his bosses to give him the go-ahead to say it had renewed the show, or even confirm that Aaron Sorkin has worked out the scheduling issues HBO’s Michael Lombardo hinted would be the chief impediment to a third season. Still, with the show’s ratings outperforming its first season, and Lombardo saying the odds for renewal were “excellent,” it seems likely that a more official announcement will be forthcoming. And when it happens, you’ll remember that Daniels broke the story first, because damn it, that’s what he’s hired to pretend to do.