by Deborah Potter • • Comments Off on How to build your digital skills
It’s hard enough to report, write, edit and produce the news these days but, even if you can do all of that well, you may need additional skills to survive and thrive in a digital-first newsroom. Some are obvious: You’d…
by Deborah Potter • • Comments Off on What journalism jobs are going to grow?
Most journalism jobs today require critical thinking and excellent writing, plus strong social media skills. That’s obvious. But what about the jobs of tomorrow? “We are genuinely in a revolution when it comes to getting information,” says Raquel Amparo, news…
by Debora Wenger • • Comments Off on Five steps to better visual storytelling
Derek Seals is one of those people who just knows how to tell a story. The multimedia work he’s produced for the Detroit Free Press since 1999 is award-winning and powerful. He says he thinks about visual journalism as if…
by Deborah Potter • • Comments Off on Tips for multimedia storytellers
You’ve done a TV story, rewritten it for the web and promoted it on social media. All good. But you can still do more with the story online by adding multimedia elements and there are good reasons for doing so.…
by Deborah Potter • • Comments Off on Using a game to tell a complex story
How can you help people understand what it’s really like to live through a major news story? Take the experience of people leaving their home countries to seek asylum in the United States. Video is one way of sharing what…
by Deborah Potter • • Comments Off on How to promote a TV investigation
One of the many challenges of a television investigation is figuring out how to make sure people see it. Josh Hinkle and the investigative unit at KXAN-TV in Austin, Texas, spent 10 months looking into killings of peace officers across…
by Debora Wenger • • Comments Off on Interacting with your news, from bots to voice assistants
There are thousands of them on Facebook Messenger alone, and journalism organizations with plenty of resources and lots of room for innovation have been experimenting with chat bots, voice interfaces and machine learning to engage their audiences. For the uninitiated,…
by Debora Wenger • • Comments Off on How Twitter feeds the web in local TV
Facebook may be the big dog when it comes to driving traffic to local TV news sites, but Twitter is an essential tool now for creating online content. Mark Becker has been a part of the reporting team at WSOC-TV…
by Debora Wenger • • Comments Off on Local TV news profitable on air, online
There’s certainly no reason to rest on your proverbial laurels if you work in TV news, but neither is it time to call the undertaker. The latest RTDNA/Hofstra University Annual Survey found that 2015 marked another strong year for the TV…
by Debora Wenger • • Comments Off on TV anchor/reporter sees advantages in live streaming
KFDM-TV in Beaumont has close to 140,000 page likes on Facebook and that makes up a sizeable instant audience for the station’s live streaming efforts. KFDM anchor Tiffany Murphy found out herself just how much reach Facebook Live can have…