Month: September 2015

Creating stronger audio for your TV stories

Turns out you can learn a lot about creating better TV stories from a guy who focuses on audio.  Adam Ragusea teaches at Mercer University’s Center for Collaborative Journalism and hosts a podcast called The Pub.  He presented at the…

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Searching Instagram for news sources

Different social networks seem to appeal to different audience demos, so understanding how to search several of them for content and sources is critical for a journalist.  For example, according to SproutSocial, 53% of Instagram’s users are aged 18-29. “Imagine…

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Online news video survey says…

…long and high quality is better. Research published in the Newspaper Research Journal, “Longer, Higher Quality Videos Preferred by News Viewers” had several key findings: Viewers preferred high-quality videos over low-quality videos. (Not exactly a big surprise!) While prior research indicates that…

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