Smart phones are revolutionizing journalism much the way computers did 20 or 30 years ago. But it’s going to take time for newsrooms to adapt to mobile newsgathering and distribution because it requires a new way of thinking, says Louis Gump, CNN’s vice president for …
Should you ditch your laptop for an iPad? Kerry Northrup votes yes. He's the brains behind the long-running NewsGear project, formerly based at the IFRA Newsplex at the University of South Carolina, and he issues an annual list of state-of-the-art mobile technology for journalists. This …
A good editor can make something out of almost nothing. Boring video? Pick up the pace in the edit and the viewer may not even notice how dull the shots are. A bad editor, on the other hand, can ruin even the best video. I …
Most reporters don't have the luxury of working on an investigative story for weeks on end. These days, being a "full time" investigative journalist often means filing daily stories while working on long-term projects. Doing that well takes lots of different skills, not the least …
Who's the best solo video journalist in the country? If you ask the NPPA, the answer is Dave Delozier, the winner of the first-ever solo VJ of the year award. That would be the same Dave Delozier of KUSA-TV in Denver who won the TV …
There’s a new battleground in local TV news, and it’s dark out there. In more than a dozen cities, anchors are on the set well before dawn, chatting live with reporters and meteorologists. And they’re not just talking to each other. Hard as it is …
Everybody's working on it, from Google to Verizon. "It" is the holy grail that will finally merge live television with the Internet, letting users watch and click in real time on any device they choose--TV, laptop, mobile phone or tablet. No, we're not there yet. Not …
Transparency, accountability and openness are among the core values of journalism. They're embodied in SPJ ethics code, after all, which thousands of journalists and news organizations subscribe to. So what would be the point of a pledge to support those three values--a pledge that comes with …
It's easy to criticize TV and radio news. So much of it is shallow, sensational or both. It's also easy to dismiss the criticism as uninformed, ill intentioned or both. Much of it is. But when the criticism comes from someone like Ira Glass, it …
Little interactivity and even less innovation. That's the headline from a new study of the state of mobile news from the University of Colorado. The report chides news organizations for playing it safe and creating apps that just do the basics. "Most of the news …
Finally some good news. Well, sort of. The good news is that there isn't bad news, says researcher Bob Papper, who's just come out with the latest RTDNA/Hofstra annual survey of salaries in TV and radio. The average paycheck in local television news was up 2.5 percent …
Very cool! The BBC is experimenting with a new prototype in data visualization called Dimensions "to bring home the human scale of events and places." A better name for it might be what they're using for a URL: "How big really?" It's a pretty simple …
