Audience research consistently shows weather is a primary driver of news audience in every TV newsroom. And in many markets, members of the weather team are some of the most popular people on air. At WTVA in Tupelo, Matthew Laubhan is a fan …
With television news becoming more and more visually driven, one noted cinematographer says broadcast journalists need to continue to evolve their skills to keep viewers captivated. “If you want to be a storyteller, then visualize the story you want to tell,” said Matthew Libatique, two-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer. …
Journalists who have clear long-term career goals are significantly better positioned for success than those who have not taken the time to think logically about their futures. That’s a pretty simple statement, but none the less true. In 30 years of running stations, I interacted …
“Preparation equals success.” That’s Wendy Salzman’s motto and it served her well as an investigative reporter in Atlanta and Philadelphia. She shared tips on preparing for interviews and more at the 2018 Excellence in Journalism conference in Baltimore. Do your research. Go online, collect documents, and …
Thomas Hayden is a co-founder of 360 Labs, a production company specializing in 360º immersive panoramic photography and video based in Portland, Oregon. With more than a decade of work exclusively in virtual reality, Hayden is a pioneer of 360° video. He has produced 360 …
There is a lot of discussion in the industry right now about improving the quality of local TV news. (Full disclosure: RTDNA researcher Bob Papper and I produced a report on the state and future of local TV news with funding from the Knight …
Photo by Abbie McIntosh. Bill Anderson is a veteran in the world of broadcast news. Anderson started out about 33 years ago when he accepted his first job as a photojournalist in Savannah, Georgia. A graduate of Missouri’s Journalism School, Anderson has worked in multiple markets, …
Photo by MacKenzie Ross. Steve Dorsey is currently the VP News Performance and Partnerships for GateHouse Media, Center for News & Design. Dorsey was previously the VP/innovation at the Austin American-Statesman, where he worked on product development & project planning and previously VP for R+D at …
Believe it or not, stations have been doing sweeps pieces for more than 40 years. The concept first became popular during the late 1970s, a time when stations had a virtually captive audience. The first efforts were big deals, designed to make viewers watch multiple nights. They …
Thousands of college journalists are graduating right now, but local TV hiring managers say they're still not getting enough candidates for what they need. That means job-hunting journalists have an opportunity to fill critical gaps. Mark Little, news director of WLBT in Jackson and Mike Smith, …
As design director at Pitchfork, a Condé Nast brand devoted to music journalism, Joy Zagar's responsibilities covered Pitchfork’s entirety and touched every aspect of the business: leading the team as they visualized the website on a daily basis, functioning as an independent studio for brand …
Maranatha Hay is a five-time Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker. Over the past few years, she has been working on Social Justice Warrior, the story of a group of California protestors who set out to join the demonstrators at the Standing Rock protests, but realize there …
