Every time you turn around, it seems like there are new social media tools to try out. From Rebel Mouse to Storyful Multisearch, they just seem to keep coming. For journalists, it’s important to keep up with what’s going on…
For all the gloom and doom you hear about the future of the news business, new opportunities seem to pop up all the time. Take the job Holly Edgell has at WCPO, the Scripps-owned television station in Cincinnati, Ohio. She’s…
You’ve seen the statistics — millions of Americans will watch more than a billion videos online today. And who better to dominate the online video audience than TV stations? Yet, how much video gets aired that never makes it’s way…
The AP’s Eric Carvin, Pro Publica’s Amanda Zamora and CNN iReport’s Katie Hawkins-Gaar pulled together some excellent advice for anyone hoping to do a better job with content contributed by the audience. In true UGC style, they crowdsourced many of…
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…
Gannett has a new social media policy for journalists, and though it is similar to those established by many other news outlets, it does serve as a reminder that it’s getting harder than ever for journalists to draw the line…
The Annual Surveys of Journalism & Mass Communications Graduates is out, and once again it’s critical reading for anyone looking for a job in the industry. Here’s a list of some of the key findings as they relate to multimedia…
Maybe this is merely anecdotal evidence, but it seems like more and more online editors are coming from the newscast producing ranks. Take Renee Johnson, for example, who runs the website for WLOX-TV in Biloxi; the former producer is now…
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.…
When it comes to teaching broadcast journalism, most schools tend to focus on reporting. Sure they teach video skills, too, and a few also prepare newscast producers, but there are many other jobs at TV news stations that rarely get…
