I keep reading that linear broadcasting is in an inevitable decline, but it doesn’t have to be. The jackpot market that can save the industry is the ability to broadcast and datacast directly to wireless mobile devices including 300 million-plus smartphones and over 200 million tablets in …
TVB today released a new study highlighting the importance of media platforms that influence consumers during the purchase decision process. Study findings confirm that linear TV remains the most important influence by far among a variety of different media platforms (traditional and digital including streaming), …
At a moment when American newspapers seem to be hurtling down a mountain toward insignificance, it’s time for news alumni to step up in support of their young, hard-working heirs. […] The post A message to grumpy veteran journalists: The kids are working hard and deserve …
The Foundation of Individual Rights and Expression blasted the FCC for its news distortion investigation of CBS News, calling it an “unconstitutional abuse of regulatory authority” and “illegitimate show trial.” The broadside from the free-speech advocacy group was co-authored by Robert Corn-Revere, FIRE chief counsel and …
The RTNDA presented its annual First Amendment Awards to leading broadcast journalists Thursday evening, providing a platform for those reporters and others to express their deep concerns about the Trump administration’s on-going efforts to suppress press freedoms and to encourage each other to resist them. “[T]hings …
Like those of us who came of age with the internet, freelance multimedia journalist Brandon Tauszik viewed the web as permanent — once something was on the internet, it was […] The post As websites disappear, link rot threatens journalism. One Stanford fellow is working on …
If the TV content ecosystem were a highway, the past few years would have seen all its old lanes blurred, its flyovers rerouted and new on- and off-ramps mushrooming between the old, familiar ones. It’s a radically new infrastructure for an irrevocably changed, multiplatform world …
Nobody cares about your investigative journalism. Not really. We do. There’s nothing more glamorous in a newsroom than the reporter who “speaks truth to power” and is known as the dogged “watchdog” of local government. It’s difficult, time-consuming, at times scary, and, occasionally, drives real change. But …
TV broadcasting is facing the same digital disruption that reshaped newspapers and radio. History should compel broadcast leaders to aggressively transform their business, yet many are focused on staff and expense reductions with cautious AI implementation. While AI is a great start, it alone cannot …
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) will honor legendary broadcaster and former NAB Television Board Chair Marci Burdick with the Chuck Sherman Television Leadership Award during the NAB State Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 2025. Created in 2003, the Chuck Sherman Television Leadership Award recognizes an individual …
The Scripps News Group, comprised of national and local journalists from across The E.W. Scripps Company, will present a news special featuring stories from local communities nationwide in anticipation of President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress. Reporters from across the Scripps News …
“Innovate” is the key buzzword for the local TV news industry right now. Some new technologies and platforms undoubtedly require changing procedures and approaches to sharing news. As someone who has frequently represented journalists involved in pilot programs over the last decade, I notice a …
