What motivates a person to devote almost as much time to a neighborhood blog as they do to a full time job? For Jacqueline Dupree, it’s a desire to document history. Dupree works for the Washington Post, maintaining the company’s…
Forget my MTV, I want my high-speed Internet access. The Pew Internet & American Life Project just released its latest survey on broadband penetration in the U.S., and even in these tough economic times, broadband adoption is growing. According to…
It’s an unfortunate reality that a good portion of students go into broadcast journalism because they want to be on TV. They dream of being someone like Oprah or of anchoring a newcast because they think it looks fun and…
The folks behind voiceofsandiego.org, an online news source run as a nonprofit, firmly believe that they way they’ll succeed is by staying focused entirely on San Diego. Could their site and other “hyperlocal” Internet outlets fill the void caused by failing…
Some veteran TV photojournalists have argued for years that bigger is better when it comes to video cameras. Only a heavy professional model could produce rock steady, broadcast quality images, the long-timers said. Or at least they used to. Oscar…
Almost every broadcast newsroom in the country is facing the same challenge. How can they continue to produce quality journalism on more screens with fewer people? “It’s a struggle but we’re doing it as a team,” said Dan Salamone, news…
Bloomberg is reporting on what could be a significant trend for local TV stations – they’re dropping syndicated programming and adding more local news. TV station owners, facing a record drop in advertising, are pushing their news crews to fill…
The Internet has taught old media plenty of lessons, but none more significant than this: “News as the product of mass production no longer seems sustainable now that it is feasible to create content for an audience of one.” So…
There are few surprises in the sixth annual State of the Media report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism. The news business is in bad shape, especially local television. “Local television remained the nation’s most popular source for news,…
Many local TV Web sites leave a lot to be desired. They’re better than they used to be, thank goodness, but they still have a long way to go. Too many sites remain hard to navigate, crammed with news, ads,…
