Posted on February 25th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
Just check out the comments section following the New York Times article on the potential layoffs announcement at ABC News. The news division is “seeking 300 to 400 buyouts and would resort to layoffs if necessary.” Depending on the person, the development is either another sign that journalism is dying or much ado about nothing.
What I am sure [...]
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Posted on December 31st, 2009 by Deb Wenger
OK, I may be taking a little poetic license with the headline, but I thought while every news organization in the country was doing “year in review” stories, Advancing the Story should, too. So, in case you missed any of them, here are the most trafficked posts for our blog this year.
1. Ten tips for [...]
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Posted on November 17th, 2009 by Deb Wenger
As more and more journalism professionals find themselves working both in front of and behind the camera, many are looking for suggestions on how to do it all well. Marc Schollett of TV7-4 in Traverse City, Michigan could be the poster child for this dilemma. Schollett not only shoots his own stories, he anchors three [...]
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Posted on August 24th, 2009 by Deb Wenger
Much has been written recently about the parallels between what’s happening to today’s media and the crisis in network radio during the late 1940s.
Thanks to Stephen Goforth for pointing out an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal that illustrates what history should tell us about today’s economic troubles.
Network TV lost vast amounts of money in its early years. [...]
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Posted on August 17th, 2009 by Deborah Potter
If you want to be a journalist, should you go to journalism school? What’s the value of a masters degree in journalism? My usual answer is: It depends. I don’t mean to be flip or evasive. It really does depend on a lot of factors.
At the undergrad level, J-school can be a good way to [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2009 by Deborah Potter
We know. It looks a lot like the old site. But Advancing the Story now stands on its own. The move gives us lots of new options for content that we plan to explore, so stay tuned for more changes soon. We hope new URL will make the blog easier to find and share, [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Deborah Potter
CNN’s Rick Sanchez has almost 90,000 followers on Twitter, making him one of the top TV news Tweeters in the US. His frequent posts are a mix of requests for feedback on the news, commentary and personal observations like this one yesterday:
i got to go slap on some make-up. be back in a jiff. hate [...]
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Posted on May 13th, 2009 by Deb Wenger
Joe Flint of the Los Angeles Times posted a very short, but interesting tidbit yesterday.
A study by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication found that over the last nine years, newspapers and wire services wrote more than two thousand stories about the woes of print and television. Leading the way were the Wall [...]
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Posted on May 8th, 2009 by Deborah Potter
Why would the University of Missouri’s well-regarded journalism school make an iPhone or iPod Touch a requirement for all incoming students? My first guess was that Mizzou was making a new commitment to multimedia journalism and requiring an iPhone so students could learn to gather and post online news on the fly. But no.
According to [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2009 by Deborah Potter
No doubt about it. You need to be able to work fast and juggle multiple deadlines if you’re going to succeed in online journalism. But you also have to be adept at marketing, which used to be a dirty word in newsrooms–as Alan Murray, deputy managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, notes in this [...]
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