You’ve seen it time after time. That brand-new general manager who is now running your station came from, you guessed it, sales. On rare occasions, a news director, or even a creative services director, becomes a general manager, but those seem to be the oddities. …
Hank Price is always interesting ... and frequently provocative. But I'm going to disagree with him on a few points made in his NewsLab article "Winning news no longer TV station’s #1 goal" from October 7. The number of independent TV newsrooms actually peaked in 2004/2005 …
What’s the difference between weather reporting and general news reporting? Tony Russell believes that, while general news is a cornerstone, weather reporting holds the newsroom together. “Weather is more than half of why we show up,” said Russell, a veteran weather reporter for WeatherNation and multiple local TV stations, …
Few people working in television news realize just how devastating the 2009 recession was to stations. Some actually faced going out of business. Many others found they could no longer support news departments. Today’s MMJs, automated newscasts and centralized master control rooms are all the …
Happy Anniversary, readers! The School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi took NewsLab over from founder Deborah Potter two years ago. We're happy to report our reach is up 50% from the first year and we know we have you to …
Walter E. Hussman Jr., publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, is a third-generation newspaper publisher who has next-generation ideas. His latest innovation? Giving away free iPads to his subscribers. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock has stopped printing the Monday-Saturday editions and instead is giving free iPads to those …
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 …
In many cases, journalists, like police and firefighters, are the first responders when there’s an accident, natural disaster or violent incident. They often witness catastrophes and share firsthand information about the events and the victims in news reports. Often journalists are affected psychologically, facing trauma …
Hundreds of journalists from around the country are heading to San Antonio for the Excellence in Journalism conference this week. Lucky them because one of the most frustrating things about working in broadcast journalism is the lack of ongoing training and development. This has always …
A recent article in AdAge highlights an interesting trend: Big companies are ditching their chief marketing officer positions. It’s not just CMOs themselves getting the boot—the job has always been a revolving door—but the very position itself is morphing or vanishing altogether. Johnson & Johnson, …
People get weather warnings from sirens, see the text at the bottom of the screen and watch reports on television; they hear alerts over the radio, and receive notifications on their smartphones. Still, there are deaths each year not just from tornadoes, but also hurricanes, …
