When Tony Russell heads out to cover a story for KOTV in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his toolkit includes two phones and a host of apps. His favorite is Instagram. “I use Instagram because I like to show viewers what I’m working…
One of the strongest broadcast journalism programs in the country is located at the University of Montana, and Professor Denise Dowling is one of the best instructors in the school. She gets students started on video storytelling by following a…
What if you’re working a story and stumble across some good information in an email, but don’t know who the heck sent it? Amit Agarwal on the tech site Digital Inspiration has a great primer on how to track down…
It’s a rare TV newsroom that does not require its journalists to write a Web version of their stories. Lynn Walsh, who produces multimedia for the Scripps National Digital Desk has done more than her fair share. She offers some…
Reporting a story on social media as it happens is one more task that reporters like Beth Parker at Fox 5 DC have to work into their days. Parker recently covered the aftermath of a storm that brought a tree…
When ice covers the roads, it can be just as hard for news crews to get around as it is for the general public. So, reporter Margaret Ann Morgan and some of her colleagues at Raycom-owned WDAM in Hattiesburg, Miss.…
The need for mobile skills among broadcast journalists has gone through the roof. In research from 2010, just 2% of TV job postings mentioned mobile — by the end of 2012, mobile skills were referenced in about 27% of job…
One of the toughest part of a journalist’s job is coming up with a good story to tell every day, but what if you had to find stories that would work across the entire country? That’s the job of those…
Think Web first. A sign with those three simple words hangs in the Raycom-owned WDAM-TV newsroom in Hattiesburg, Miss. The idea is to remind reporters, producers and everyone else to push to Web, and smartphones make that job much easier.…
Sometimes somebody just says it so well, that you feel like sharing it, right? So, check out this summary of a post on Mashable, that explores the best features of the photo app, Camera+. Or better yet, watch the 2:00…
