The body camera video of five Memphis police officers using excessive force to arrest Tyre Nichols will be released Friday afternoon, the Tennessee Sheriffs’ Association said. The arrest occurred Jan. […] The post Video of Memphis police’s ‘excessive force’ against Tyre Nichols is coming. What should …
The ABC Owned Television Stations’ Neighborhood Safety Tracker is a new interactive website and app that provides viewers with up-to-date crime and safety information tailored to each individual market. Working with data collected from local police departments, the Neighborhood Safety Tracker provides the latest crime data …
A couple of months ago, I wrote an article about the way TV news covers crime and suggested there must be a better way. Thanks to the National Press Foundation, the Radio Television Digital News Association and Arnold Ventures, I believe a new path is …
In today’s world, video ads are the most effective way for businesses to reach their target audience and promote their products or services. During my SMX Next presentation, we reviewed three innovative trends for video, which helped create a deeper conversation around the role that data …
The U.S. Justice Department has just filed its second antitrust lawsuit against Google, signaling that the government is continuing to pursue cases against tech firms. This new lawsuit, which aims to make Google divest parts of its online advertising business, is the first against the …
Less than 25 minutes after an SUV plowed into more than two dozen sheriff’s recruits on a jog through Whittier, a city in Los Angeles County, images of the horrific scene were beamed from the KCBS chopper to the station’s airwaves. Details of the unfortunate …
In a recent column, Harry Jessell reacted to recent pronouncements of linear TV’s impending death by providing (cold?) comfort to broadcasters that their spectrum could always be used exclusively for datacasting, or simply auctioned off for other uses. Harry’s equation of over-the-air (OTA) broadcasting’s television content …
According to six sources and documents reviewed by Forbes, TikTok and ByteDance employees frequently engage in “heating,” which is a manual process that guarantees certain videos receive a specific amount of views. Heating is cheating. Six current and former employees of TikTok and its parent company, …
Instagram now allows users to schedule posts on the photo- and video-sharing platform. Posts can be scheduled up to 75 days in advance. Our guide will show you how to schedule a post in the Instagram mobile application. Note: These screenshots were captured in the …
“Linear TV is … marching towards a great precipice and is going to be be pushed off,” Bob Iger said at a Los Angeles conference last September. “I can’t tell you when, but it goes away.” Not exactly what you want to hear about broadcasting and …
EACH MONTH, Covering Climate Now speaks with different journalists about their experiences on the climate beat and their ideas for pushing our craft forward. This week, we spoke with Mary Annaïse Heglar, who cohosts the climate podcast Hot Take with Amy Westervelt. Heglar’s writing has …
Social media was ablaze last week as people hungrily consumed C-SPAN’s coverage of Rep. Kevin McCarthy slogging his way to becoming the 55th speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. […] The post Democracy in action or ‘C-SPAN gaze’: The cases for and against more cameras …
