Whether it’s finding sources, engaging audience or creating effective tweets, Twitter’s new guide for newsrooms is a good read. As the folks at Mashable point out, it offers little new for anyone who already uses the social network consistently, but…
Month: June 2011
Better Skype live shots
Whether you work for a TV station on a budget or you’re still involved in a college broadcast, a new type of converter is making it easier and less expensive than ever to go live, air video from YouTube, even…
Local officials versus the news media
The mayor of Seattle is telling local TV stations to back off. In Georgia, the governor’s office went so far as to ban an Atlanta station from a public event. What’s going on here? Elected officials often don’t like the…
What does it mean to be “digital first?”
For the past several years, there has been a lot of talk about “Web first newsrooms.” The basic premise is that a news organization’s website should no longer be an afterthought, In fact, the idea is that the Web should…
College radio in an Internet world
Is your campus radio station threatened? A couple of high-profile cases lately have spotlighted what some college radio supporters call a trend of universities selling their FM licenses and moving their campus stations online. The most recent case involves Duquesne,…
Multimedia skills mean jobs for TV news grads
“There are currently good opportunities for broadcast journalism grads, at least in medium and small markets.” Talk about great news for thousands of students sporting brand new degrees and hunting for work. According to TVNewsCheck, the newly graduated may not…