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 …
Back in 1997 when television stations were first required to carry a minimum amount of children’s programming, I was a skeptic. With the explosion of children’s programming on cable, would kids watch a block of shows on adult oriented affiliates? Would the networks actually invest in quality programming? …
Sportswriter Wright Thompson equates the work of a profile writer to that of a lie detector. "The one thing I find myself talking about over and over again is the idea that you have to cut through myth and cut through brand," said Thompson, speaking as …
It’s time to retire the term “fake news,” says Margaret Sullivan, the media columnist for The Washington Post. Sullivan joined faculty and students at the University of Mississippi recently to discuss what she calls one of the leading threats to our democracy – fake news. Sullivan joined the Post …
Journalists know that newsrooms all over the country are changing. Digital and print media are ever-evolving, technology and innovation are changing the way we read, report, consume, photograph and design stories. “Print is dying,” some wail. “Print is not what it used to be,” they whine. Print is undergoing the …
In an ever-changing industry, one community newspaper is still shining a light on important Mississippi issues. First volume of The Northside Sun. Printed Nov. 30, 1967. Photo by Ryan Ward.Since the first volume was printed on Nov. 30, 1967, The Northside Sun newspaper has delivered news …
We’ve all read the stories. Former cable and satellite viewers who now live exclusively in a world of Netflix, Amazon Prime and whatever other content can be found on the internet. I’ve always been amazed by how these articles ignore the most important element of …
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 …
