Kim Cross is in her second round of freelancing as a career. But the former editor for Southern Living and Cooking Light says this time she's feeling much more prepared. "My first job out of college I worked for a business magazine in San Francisco called …
Anyone overseeing a newsroom's social channels quickly learns that they're all unique. Tanita Gaither is the digital content manager for Gray's WIS-TV in Columbia, SC. She tries to develop strategies that leverage the most powerful elements of each. "There’s this old saying, 'You break news on …
Think you don't have a voice for podcasting? That's what Amber Hunt, a reporter at the Cincinnati Enquirer, had been told. When she recorded Accused, an investigation into an unsolved murder, she struggled to get used to the microphone and had to keep reminding herself to …
“Some photographers and reporters nicknamed me ‘the devil,'” Geoff Roth, news director at Nexstar's KREX/KFQX in Grand Junction, CO, says with a wry grin, but he has no doubts about what he preaches. “MoJo [mobile journalism] is the way we are moving in the 21st …
Giving Tuesday is set for November 27 this year. Giving days have become a popular way for colleges and universities, as well as other groups, to raise money and engage alumni. According to a 2015 study, 42 percent of schools surveyed employed days of giving …
Steve Hartman has what looks like a dream job. He travels the country, telling uplifting stories that run once a week on the CBS Evening News. “On the Road” is a legendary franchise once the province of the great Charles Kuralt. Now, the time is Hartman’s …
It’s 2018 and the media is in “crisis mode,” undergoing heavy scrutiny from the White House and oftentimes involving itself in perceived or real bias, clickbait and one-sided reporting. What’s a journalist to do in navigating the changing tides? Nationally known political reporter Peter Boyer, who has …
Good research can help guide great decision making. NewsLab has created a round-up of some of the most relevant academic research about the newspaper industry. From what happens to your publication when you go fully digital; to a review of what actually gets corrected when …
Effective journalism requires a concrete foundation of ethics for it to succeed and endure. According to Fred Young, former senior vice president for Hearst TV, there are two powerful incentives for ethical journalism: the moral incentive, which concerns decency and honesty, and the practical incentive, …
Film documentaries as they are known today have been around since 1922 when Robert Flaherty made the first feature-length documentary, “Nanook of the North,” but recently they have moved into a space of notoriety and intrigue for moviegoers and streaming platform users. Last year alone, the …
Today, it's more important than ever for businesses and organizations to have a crisis management plan. And though no one likes to relive a crisis, you can learn from doing so. In 1982, consumer research specialist Leslie Westbrook was in the "war room" during …
There’s never been a better time to be interested in sports journalism, according to Chuck Swirsky, the play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Bulls. Swirsky has also called play-by-play for both University of Michigan basketball and football and was formerly the play-by-play voice of the Toronto …
