"Everyone should have a smartphone in the future; it's baseline gear," says Damon Kiesow, senior product manager at Boston.com. Speaking at the Excellence in Journalism convention in New Orleans, Kiesow said newsrooms have to get more "intentional and strategic" when it comes to mobile. "It doesn't work to …
The Murrow Award for writing "demonstrates excellence in writing that conveys the feeling and significance of events to the listener or viewer." That's the goal of great storytelling, isn't it? To help make the news matter. Last year's national winner in the small market TV category …
Many journalists already use their smartphones as news gathering and publishing tools, but Mark Briggs of KING5.com in Seattle and the blog Journalism 2.0 says mobile devices can do so much more. "Few reporters use smartphones as a research device," Briggs says--a missed opportunity, in his …
What happens when a newsroom values diversity?Reporter Jessica Chapin of KGUN-TV in Tucson, Ariz., says it leads to better storytelling and better decision making. "Tucson is an hour from the border, so diversity in the newsroom and Spanish as a second language is definitely a plus," …
Take a mobile phone and a broadcast quality microphone and the world is your storybook. That's what multimedia guru Stephen Quinn believes. Quinn, who teaches at Deakin University in Australia, shared a bit of his enthusiasm about mobile journalism at the World Jounalism Education Conference in …
Editor & Publisher has released its annual list of Eppy award finalists. The Eppy honors the best of the Web and it's always interesting to see which local TV news sites make the list of nominees. This year, as in the past, the list is short -- …
For a long time a lot of smart people have been talking about the need for news organizations to deliver more content to mobile devices, but most of time, the discussions are a little light on how the move will actually change the job of …
When I took a spin through the first 200 or so news apps on the Apple Web site earlier this year, WKRG in Mobile, Alabama, was the only local TV station featured. So, why is that? It may be that many local news organizations are …
As more and more journalism professionals find themselves working both in front of and behind the camera, many are looking for suggestions on how to do it all well. Marc Schollett of TV7-4 in Traverse City, Michigan could be the poster child for this dilemma. …
Read this before it's too late. Tom Curley of the Associated Press and Rupert Murdoch of NewsCorp are putting those of us in the blogosphere on notice: Re-publish our content and we will make you pay. According to an AP story, the two men made their comments …
One study estimates that as many as 70 percent of journalists now use social media to do their jobs--mainly to find sources and information quickly. Chip Mahaney, director of digital content for Scripps TV stations, says that Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools can be …
New results from the RTNDA/Hofstra University study (pdf) show only 38% of TV and radio news directors say their staffs are "really on top of new technology and where they're headed." The rest have "a long way to go" (48%)or are "mostly winging it" (13.7%). The …
