With all the new demands on TV reporters these days, who would have thought that going live over the phone would be a challenge? Turns out that it is, at least for Marissa Pendergrass, a reporter at WHBF in Rock Island, Illinois, who started work …
If you sometimes think you're drowning in Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the rest, you are not alone. I'm feeling slightly more overwhelmed than usual, myself, after listening to a webinar that was all about helping journalists get control of their social media streams. Maybe that's …
When and where is it OK to shoot video without getting permission? Can generic file video get you in legal trouble? These kinds of questions come up in newsrooms all the time and often lead to heated debates. Next time, check the Photographers' Guide to Privacy …
Journalists are notorious for hating anything to do with math. If we'd been any good with numbers, I often joke, we might have chosen a different career. But it's essential for today's journalists to get comfortable working with data, and the good news is that …
Forgive me for tooting my own horn, but I'm pleased to announce the publication of the second edition of my book, Advancing the Story: Broadcast Journalism in a Multimedia World, co-authored with Deb Wenger. It's available now from CQ Press or Amazon, and we hope you'll …
Remember when websites used to measure traffic in hits? The results didn't signify much of anything, of course, because every element on a page generated a hit. Page views came to be considered a better way of counting online traffic, but they couldn't tell you …
Keeping an eye on Twitter is pretty much mandatory in most newsrooms--or at least it should be. Yes, there's a lot of worthless chatter out there, but every so often you can find a pony. Take the story Kara Matuszewski, a Web producer at WBZ in Boston, …
We've all heard and seen what's been happening to journalists trying to cover the uprising in Egypt. Some have been detained and beaten. One Egyptian journalist was shot to death while taking pictures from his office balcony on his mobile phone. What can journalists do …
by Joe Enea All stations have about the same equipment and physical resources. What makes one station different from the rest? The people working there. Chemistry among the team is important in this business. Dealing with people under pressure with major time …
There's no shortage of video online these days; in fact, it's become almost ubiquitous. But if everyone's bought in to the importance of posting video, not everyone has figured out how to get people to actually watch it. There's no single "holy grail," of course, but …
For days now, I've spent every spare minute glued to just about every media source I can find, looking for the latest news from Egypt. It's an amazing story, and it's no real surprise that the Arabic TV network Al Jazeera has been all over …
I'm a sucker for lists, especially lists for journalists. So I had to read the 25 commandments for journalists posted by a former editor of the Guardian. Tim Radford's "manifesto" is a useful reminder of what really matters in journalism, and it's not today's cool tools, …
