Most stories about the latest poll from the Pew Research Center focused on the growing popularity of the Internet as a news source. But the headline for me was the enduring popularity of television news, both local and network or cable. The trouble is, I’m not sure I believe it.
Sixty percent of Americans told the [...]
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Reporters who want to anchor often get their first opportunity as a “fill in” when a colleague is away. Some slide right into the chair and do just fine. But others worry that something will go wrong and they won’t ever get another chance. Having the jitters about an assignment increases the odds that it [...]
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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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As journalism organizations try to figure out how to make money in a Web-driven, free content world, MediaPost’s summary of new research from Nielsen offers some important information.
The topline summary suggests that pay-for-view news is going to be a tough sell as 79% of users say they would no longer access a Web site that charges them.
However, the [...]
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In case you haven’t seen them, here’s a link to the Radio Television Digital News Association ethical guidelines for the use of social media in gathering and disseminating news. The Poynter’s Al Tompkins was one of the architects.
We wanted to speak to how speed and space limitations can compromise accuracy and fairness. We wanted to speak [...]
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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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If anyone’s hiring these days–and some news organizations actually are–they’re looking for candidates who have it all. They want basic journalism skills and technical know-how. But you might be surprised at how different kinds of news organizations rank the importance of those two types of skills.
A study by Serena Carpenter of Arizona State University found [...]
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It’s a common complaint from college journalism professors: Their students, who say they want to be journalists, don’t actually follow the news. They’re on Facebook and YouTube all the time, says Michigan State’s Bob Gould, but even his broadcast journalism students don’t watch television news. And despite their connectedness, many of them somehow managed to [...]
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What should a group of freshly-minted journalism and mass comm graduates know about the future that awaits them? I asked that question on several social networks to prepare for a recent commencement speech at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
“Your real education begins today,” wrote Kim Green of WNCN-TV in Raleigh, N.C. “What [...]
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According to an outfit called Snapstream, there may be more substance in our network newscasts than TV journalists generally get credit for.
In its news release, Snapstream says it is a “service we run that lets you see how often words are mentioned, over time, on national TV news. We record and analyze transcripts from national TV news programs on [...]
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