Most television Web sites have left the age of shovelware behind, thank goodness. It took a while, but stations finally figured out that simply posting TV scripts online wouldn’t entice anyone to visit a site twice. That said, there’s still…
Student journalism taken seriously
The fact that the Web gives almost anyone a publishing platform has created significant opportunity for student journalists. Instead of producing class work for an audience of one – the instructor – students now have the opportunity to create their own Web sites…
Writing great Web headlines
If you aren’t already reading any of Jakob Nielsen’s work about online writing, you should start. Just recently he published his pick for the news organization with the best Web headlines. And the winner is….the BBC. According to Nielsen, good headlines should…
How TV news reports audience decline
Joe Flint of the Los Angeles Times posted a very short, but interesting tidbit yesterday. A study by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication found that over the last nine years, newspapers and wire services wrote more than…
There will be jobs
Optimism doesn’t exactly rule in newsrooms today, but the AP’s Micah Gelman is bucking the trend. He’s just been named executive producer for domestic video, a job that didn’t exist when he got into the business a decade ago as…
VJ interviewing tips
It’s not easy to prepare for and conduct a TV interview if you’re working alone as a “backpack journalist.” Steve Mort should know. He reports, shoots and edits for Feature Story News, and says interviews are one of the most…