Ask an entire generation of journalists what inspired them to go into or stay in the news business and the answer often comes down to one word: Watergate. Forty years ago this month, two young reporters at the Washington Post filed their first stories about …
It's no secret that television newsrooms are expecting more production from everyone on staff. And there's nothing really new about reporters being expected to file multiple times a day for multiple outlets. Heck, I did that 30 years ago at CBS, filing for radio and …
I know this is a touchy subject. Maybe I'd be smarter to leave it alone. But a piece in the new issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism and a recent exchange I had with a freelance photojournalist have me thinking again about this apparently …
Police invariably keep journalists so far back from crime scenes that it's almost impossible to see what's going on with the naked eye. That's the situation KTUU's Jason Lamb faced earlier this month, as police prepared to search a frozen lake for the body of …
Quick: What do Wynton Marsalis, Elizabeth Smart and Chelsea Clinton have in common? They have well-known names, certainly, but that's not all they share. All three are now employed by network news divisions, which speaks volumes about both the power of celebrity and the current …
He was a ground breaker who became a CBS News icon; a game show host and pitchman who became such a hard-nosed journalist that his name made up half of "the four most dreaded words in the English language: 'Mike Wallace is here.'" His death …
It's not a first, but it's exceedingly rare. This year's IRE Medal, the highest award for investigative reporting by Investigative Reporters and Editors, went to two broadcast outlets: KRTK and KQED. Only once before in the 18-year history of the medals has broadcast recorded a …
Finally, some good news. Two pending cases against police departments for civil rights violations have been settled in favor of the photographers. What's not clear is what impact the settlements will have on the continuing problem of professional photojournalists being arrested for doing their jobs. In …
More than 30 journalists in Wisconsin were discovered this week to have signed petitions for the recall of the state's controversial Republican governor, Scott Walker. The first news organization to publicly disclose its employees' involvement was Gannett, whose newspapers published a letter to readers noting this "breach …
by Holly Edgell When I graduated from Michigan State University in 1990 with a bachelor’s in newspaper journalism, I had a vague sense that I might like to dabble in broadcasting as well. I’d done a radio internship and really liked it. I was not overly excited about newspapers. The …
This won't come as a huge surprise to anyone working in local TV news, but there's more of it than ever and more people are watching. "To quote Mark Twain, ‘Reports of our death are greatly exaggerated,’” says Hearst Television’s vice president for news, Brian Bracco, …
A New York station's decision to dump one of its veteran anchors has people up in arms--and not just the anchor's fans. Sue Simmons is an institution at WNBC, having anchored the news there for 32 years. But at age 68, she's been informed that …
