Posted on June 27th, 2011 by Deb Wenger
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 pull graphics from a PC screen to incorporate into a show. TV News Check does [...]
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Posted on April 4th, 2011 by Deb Wenger
Where are the jobs in TV news? Just ask news director Bruce Barkley of WAPT in Jackson, Miss. “Want to be a producer? asks Barkley. He’s not kidding, either. Year after year, news directors lament that for every reporter job they get dozens of applicants, if not more. For a producer job, some in small [...]
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Posted on January 17th, 2011 by Deb Wenger
Each year, the Project for Excellence in Journalism produces a report on “The Year in News.” Can you guess what the Top 3 stories were for all media this year? Breaking it down to network evening, network morning and cable news, we find that cable spent a major chunk of it’s time (15.3%) on the [...]
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Posted on December 12th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard a call to do away with TV sweeps periods, but Brad Adgate makes the case in Advertising Age that there are more reasons than ever before to finally put an end to the practice. According to Adgate, the emphasis on sweeps periods leaves resources depleted throughout the rest of the [...]
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Posted on October 7th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
How do you go beyond reading tweets on the air to make social media an integral part of the newscast? CNN International’s Etan Horowitz is charged with making that happen daily. “It used to be the reverse,” says Horowitz. “We were trying to put TV online; now we’re bringing interesting social media to air.” Horowitz says [...]
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Posted on August 22nd, 2010 by Deb Wenger
Whether you’re a TV reporter or producer, it’s quite likely that you will also be working for your station’s website, but just what duties are most common? New research from Michael Cremedas and Suzanne Lysak of Syracuse University provides important insight. According to the study, knowing how to write “print style” or “Web-friendly” stories is a [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
Thousands of recent or soon-to-be journalism grads are combing media company websites and shooting out resumes all across the country right now. So what types of jobs are they likely to find? In doing content analysis of more than 500 broadcast news job postings from the ten biggest TV news companies in the U.S. at [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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