Month: September 2011

Crime reporting tips

For many journalists, covering crime is their least favorite part of being on general assignment. The late shift at many stations is a steady diet of crime scenes and victims. Lots of newsrooms send their greenest reporters out on crime…

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Surviving the epic fail

Everybody makes mistakes. The trick is to learn from them and survive them. CNN has generously shared “epic fail” moments from nine of its journalists, including anchor Brooke Baldwin, who admits to having locked up during a local news live…

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CNN’s O’Brien on what’s different for today’s journalists

When Soledad O’Brien joined NBC in 1991, she says the woman training her gave her some bad news. “She said that the evening news was dead,” laughed O’Brien.  “Now, I just avoid the naysayers.” Twenty years later, the evening news…

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Must-haves for mobile journalism

“Everyone should have a smartphone in the future; it’s baseline gear,” says Damon Kiesow of Boston.com. Speaking at the Society of Professional Journalists convention in New Orleans, Kiesow says newsrooms have to get more “intentional and strategic” when it comes…

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Prize-winning local TV strategies

If you’ve been feeling despondent about the current state of local TV news, just take a look at the latest issue of Quill, the SPJ magazine. Here’s all you need to know about the section that cheered me up: Despite…

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Newsroom goal? Any screen, any time

Bill Tallent’s company has an impressive client list.  From USA Today to Fox News to Showtime, Mercury has an app for that. Yet, his view is that news organizations need to have more than a three-screen strategy, they have to…

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NBC stations have new hiring initiatives

According to TV NewsCheck, NBC’s O&Os have just started two new programs aimed at recruiting new, diverse journalists. The News Associates program focuses on finding recent graduates, and the Reporter Training program is designed to target journalists who may be…

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Are your online ethics different?

The Washington Post has now put its digital publishing guidelines online. Section titles include: Social Media, Taste and Tone and Third-Party Content. The Post’s ombudsman says that some people aren’t going to like the fact that the guidelines allow reporters…

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