Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by Deb Wenger
Nikki Burdine is the anchor and producer for the noon and 5 p.m. show at WHAG-NBC25 in Hagerstown, Maryland. She also blogs for RTDNA where she recently posted a description of her experiment with LiveStream during a newscast.
It was very simple, I set up an account, had someone hold their iPhone up during the show, [...]
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Posted on October 30th, 2009 by Deb Wenger
According to research at the University of Mississippi, a review of more than 500 job openings in television news revealed producer jobs topped the list. Here’s how about half the openings in the Top 10 TV companies broke down: producer (18.8%), photographer (12.2%), reporter (11.6%).
Bob Noonan, assistant news director at WREG-TV in Memphis says producers are always in [...]
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Posted on June 25th, 2009 by Deborah Potter
“The greatest innovator and producer in the history of television journalism.” That’s how Ralph Engelman of Long Island University sums up the late CBS News great Fred Friendly, even as he wonders whether students today have ever heard of him.
Engelman’s new book “Friendlyvision” describes the man who was Edward R. Murrow’s producer on “See it [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Deborah Potter
What does it take to be a successful newscast producer? More than you might think. There’s a lot more to producing than just stacking a show. The decisions a producer makes about what stories to run and in what order are important, of course, but only a small part of the job.
Holly Edgell, executive producer [...]
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Posted on May 6th, 2009 by Deborah Potter
The folks behind voiceofsandiego.org, an online news source run as a nonprofit, firmly believe that they way they’ll succeed is by staying focused entirely on San Diego. Could their site and other “hyperlocal” Internet outlets fill the void caused by failing news organizations?
This CNN story does a decent job of reviewing the state of play.
Generally, the [...]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2009 by Deborah Potter
Almost every broadcast newsroom in the country is facing the same challenge. How can they continue to produce quality journalism on more screens with fewer people?
“It’s a struggle but we’re doing it as a team,” said Dan Salamone, news director at WOIO-TV, Cleveland, Ohio, at an RTNDA panel I moderated on Tuesday. His newsroom [...]
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Posted on April 17th, 2009 by Deb Wenger
The Kovsky Miller Media Research firm just released data on the amount of story and topic repetition in newscasts. It may or may not be a surprise to you just how much of the content is rehash.
For the years 2004-2008, the fim looked at more than ”2,500 half hours of news and 21,000 stories. Stories were designated as repeat [...]
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Posted on April 16th, 2009 by Deb Wenger
Bloomberg is reporting on what could be a significant trend for local TV stations – they’re dropping syndicated programming and adding more local news.
TV station owners, facing a record drop in advertising, are pushing their news crews to fill expanded schedules, allowing programmers to eliminate more costly syndicated programs such as “Dr. Phil.” In Los [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2009 by Deborah Potter
TV news producers take pride in crafting their rundowns, putting stories in just the right order so the newscast flows seamlessly. At ESPN, the rundown sometimes shows up on the air. Both SportsCenter and Pardon the Interruption use an on-screen rundown to show what stories are coming up next. A few local TV stations use [...]
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