Smart strategies for using VJs

Posted on April 7th, 2009 by Deborah Potter

TV newsrooms that are replacing reporter-photographer teams with solo video journalists might benefit from the experience of stations that have always had them.  News8 Austin, the cable news channel in  Texas, has used VJs ever since it launched 10 years ago. News director Kevin Benz told Poynter’s Jill Geisler that managers need different strategies to [...]

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Paying for news stories – is it ever ethical?

Posted on April 7th, 2009 by Deb Wenger

There’s no doubt about it; the journalism industry has to reinvent itself to remain viable in a world where the old model of advertising-supported content is unlikely to work. But where should news organizations draw the line?
In Oklahoma, stations KOTV and KWTV are both running stories within their newscasts about a state-sponsored insurance program and [...]

Filed under: 09. Producing for TV, 11. Multimedia Ethics | 2 Comments »