You know the story — the good news is that there’s a light at the end of the tunnel; the bad news is that it’s an oncoming train. That pretty much sums up the current situation at many local television stations. They are running out …
Silas Morgan, the 22-year-old son of Walmart employees and a first-generation college student, had an important call to make. Morgan was part of an investigative news team at the University […] The post Meet the student journalists who report on Florida’s most influential and powerful elected …
Lorena Lopez came to the United States from her home country of Nicaragua, where she was an investigative reporter, in 1992. But it wasn’t until 2016 that she managed to return to her passion, as the founding editor of La Prensa, a Spanish-language newspaper serving …
The images filled television screens across a rattled country on a hot Saturday evening — former President Donald Trump reaching for his bloodied ear as he moved down to the floor of a stage at a Pennsylvania campaign rally and U.S. Secret Service agents rushing to …
Hearst Television will be honored with the second annual Library of American Broadcasting Foundation’s (LABF) Excellence in Broadcast Preservation Award in recognition of the company’s outstanding dedication and commitment to preserving broadcast history. The presentation will take place during the annual Giants of Broadcasting luncheon celebration on Tuesday, Nov. …
Aside from major conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, U.S. audience interest in global topics often ranges from spotty to nonexistent. Articles about war in Sudan or violent gang warfare in […] The post What will get Americans interested in international news? appeared first on Poynter.
The best reason for news broadcasters to invest in new technology is to tell better stories. Augmented reality graphics and virtual sets have long held that promise, but historically local call-letter stations have found the technology to either be too difficult to implement or not …
“But how do we get people to trust and care about our journalism?” “How do we engage audiences who think our reporting is partisan?” “People don’t even want to be […] The post How and why we should bring the living room into our newsrooms appeared …
Poynter’s Beat Academy, a yearlong slate of webinars designed to help journalists cover emerging and evolving beats, recently awarded several grants to news organizations inspired to take on reporting projects […] The post Here are the newsrooms awarded grant money for reporting projects inspired by Poynter’s …
Facing unprecedented media industry disruption, local TV broadcasting’s leaders will gather for a day of conversation about strategies for capitalizing on a multiplatform media ecosystem at TVNewsCheck’s Local TV Strategies Conference. Kicking the day off will be a financial forecast and trend analysis from Rick Ducey, …
Imagine you had virtually unlimited money, time and resources to develop an AI technology that would be useful to journalists. What would you dream, pitch and design? And how would […] The post The assignment: Build AI tools for journalists – and make ethics job one …
Here’s the third dispatch from our summer series sharing how-tos, tips, projects and guides from the 2023-2024 Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellows. This week, we’re featuring Elizabeth Myong, an Arts Acces reporter for KERA […] The post How one Dallas reporter took on deepfakes appeared first on Poynter.
