Fran Bi is a storytelling engineer for SBNation. His focus is on taking sports features and finding new ways to tell them. "So, a lot of that is with graphics, whether it’s data visualizations or animations or any type of movement or something else where we …
Professional journalists can broaden their scope from local to international news if they are aware of the similarities and differences between the two, says the US editor of Apple News. Maggie Brito, who joined Apple News in August 2018, also says that newsworthiness has universal principles …
Forget “digital first,” you need to be “digital now,” says Tanita Gaither, digital content manager for Gray’s WIS-TV in Columbia, South Carolina. The 2011 graduate from the University of Georgia says it’s simply not enough to post regularly to your own personal social accounts and then consider …
Television has a bright future if it can adapt to the times and focus on its brand, its consumers and the technology its viewers have chosen, says a veteran industry executive. “The brand is not television,” Hank Price said. “Television is an extension of the brand. …
As an investigative reporter, Brendan Keefe of WXIA-TV in Atlanta is accustomed to people assuming he works with more than one photographer when shooting his trademark long-form interviews. When his stories air, viewers see him asking questions on camera and interviewees responding from several different …
I love the Wall Street Journal. It’s the best written, most informative business publication there is, and I read it daily. I don’t always agree with their editorial stance but the international news and especially the marketing sections are top notch. I’ve been a loyal subscriber …
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 …
