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%),…
USA Today puts together some amazing online interactives with a surprisingly small staff. Just five people are typically involved in putting together major projects, says Chet Czarniak, managing editor of USAToday.com–a designer, programmer, producer, IT person and database editor. The…
By Stephen Goforth, University of Mississippi (former CNN writer/producer) The Online News Association convention in San Francisco included a session titled, “Design Solutions from News Experts.” While panelists from the New York Times revealed a glimpse into new features coming…
Every newsroom is stressed to the max these days, with too few people producing news on more platforms than ever. How can you free up time for enterprise reporting or multimedia projects? By saving time on the routine stories. Simple…
Shocking! Tragic! Unbelievable! Not the stories that came with those labels attached, but the way they’re written. It’s shocking how many worthless adjectives are being crammed into the average newscast! Tragic to think that many writers may not know better.…
Having worked for more than 20 years in TV news, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith spoke enthusiastically about his job and the future of journalism before a crowd at the University of Mississippi. Smith says he got into the news business with…
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…
As we reported a couple weeks ago, one study estimates that as many as 70 percent of journalists now use social media to do their jobs. They said they were using social media to find sources and information quickly. Chip Mahaney…
Read this before it’s too late. Tom Curley of the Associated Press and Rupert Murdoch of NewsCorp are putting us in the blogosphere on notice: Re-publish our content and we will make you pay. According to an AP story, the…
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…
