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%),…
Month: October 2009
Multimedia planning and production
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…
“12 Things I’ve Learned about Online News”
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…
How to simplify routine stories
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…
Overcome adjective addiction
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.…
Shepard Smith gives advice to young journalists
Making it big in small market TV
Get more from your social media
Is this post illegal?
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…
Broadcast journalists struggling to keep up with technology
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…