When Soledad O’Brien joined NBC in 1991, she says the woman training her gave her some bad news. “She said that the evening news was dead,” laughed O’Brien. “Now, I just avoid the naysayers.” Twenty years later, the evening news…
For all the emphasis on multimedia and technology in today’s newsrooms, the basics are just as important as ever. That’s what journalism professor Laura Smith concluded after spending a month this summer working at KXAN-TV in Austin, Texas. In a…
The average network news station airs more than five and a half hours of news every weekday. That’s according to the latest figures from the annual RTDNA/Hofstra Survey, which found that 42% of stations increased their news production in the…
Jerry Gumbert, CEO of AR&D, a local media strategy firm, says the No. 1 reason why TV news is flagging “has been a failure of news management to sustain focus on a formal beat system.” News leaders have to realign…
Hiring has been steady in TV newsrooms and will continue through 2011. That’s according to the latest survey from RTDNA/Hofstra University. Total local television news employment is now 26,522. That’s an increase of 2.9 percent in the last year. Other…
If you’re just starting out in the news business or even thinking about a career in journalism, you may feel a little overwhelmed by everything you think you need to know. Don’t be. Every good journalist learns on the job.…
After two grim years, the state of local television news is much improved, thank you. That’s the bottom line of the chapter I wrote for this year’s State of the News Media report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism,…
Each year, the Project for Excellence in Journalism produces a report on “The Year in News.” Can you guess what the Top 3 stories were for all media this year? Breaking it down to network evening, network morning and cable…
“When you want to start something new, you need new people to do it.” Those are the words of Llewellyn King, a long-time PBS journalist and one of the keynote speakers at “Media in Crisis, Crisis in Media,” a conference…
Two pieces of news should give TV executives pause and remind young journalists that video is a cross-platform skill, so be sure you know how to work with it. First, a survey from TubeMogul indicates that newspaper websites have now surpassed…
