An independent non-profit due to launch early next year will enlist students at the U.C. Berkeley graduate school of journalism to expand local news coverage in the San Francisco area. The Bay Area News Project, funded by a $5 million grant from a local philanthropist, will produce news primarily for the Web and mobile delivery, [...]
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3G, WiFi, WiMAX, LTE or Skype.
No, those letters are not the result of fingers run amok on a keyboard, they’re all now part of the multimedia journalist’s toolkit.
An article from TVNewsCheck does a great job of describing how wireless broadband is changing news reporting, specifically what each option can and cannot do.
The trick to using wireless [...]
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If you want to be an investigative reporter, you may need to look beyond traditional newsrooms for job opportunities. Many local television stations have trimmed or dropped their I-Teams. Local newspapers like the Oregonian and Toledo Blade have cut back, too. But investigative reporting is still being done, just not the old-fashioned way.
Since we last [...]
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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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Many young journalists dread the idea of working in a tiny TV market for obvious reasons. Some worry they will have no social life, others shudder at the low salaries and some worry they’ll get lost in obscurity forever.
Lindsey Brown, on the other hand, has found a lot to love in her job at WTOK [...]
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New results from the RTNDA/Hofstra University study (pdf) show only 38% of TV and radio news directors say their staffs are “really on top of new technology and where they’re headed.” The rest have “a long way to go” (48%) or are “mostly winging it” (13.7%).
The study shows 99.1% of all TV stations surveyed have Web [...]
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More than a year ago we reported CNN was hiring what they call “all-platform journalists” to expand their coverage in ten U.S. cities. So far, they’ve hired four.
Victor Hernandez, director of coverage, says it’s because they’ve had trouble finding people who meet all their criteria.
Speaking to a crowd of broadcast journalists at an RTNDA workshop, Hernandez [...]
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I’ll be honest, I don’t really enjoy Facebook, Twitter or even LinkedIn. Often times keeping up with them feels like just one more chore. But, if you’re going to be a journalist, I think it’s inevitable that you’ll have to get plugged into the social media scene.
Consider these excerpts from a job description for an “Interactivity Editor” at Gannett:
Adept [...]
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Whatever you call them–VJs, MMJs or backpackers–reporters who shoot and edit their own material are becoming more common in large market television stations. WUSA-TV in Washington, DC, was the first in a top-10 market to make solo journalists the norm. So what’s it like? Georgetown University grad student Deborah Lynn Green, who interned at WUSA [...]
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A reporter in her early 20s starts losing her hair. Another loses weight and has symptoms of depression. Everyone knows journalism is a tough business, but that doesn’t make it any easier to cope with the stress of feeling overworked and unsatisfied in your chosen profession.
Scott Reinardy of the University of Kansas surveyed young journalists [...]
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