Newspapers play on TV’s turf
Listen up, local television stations. Remember the monopoly you used to have on video? It's long gone. More than 1,000 U.S. newspapers …
Citizen journalism as ‘You Witness News’
If it hadn't been for a cell phone camera, the world would never have seen video of Saddam Hussein's execution. The first video of the London subway bombings came in via cell phone, too, not from journalists but from commuters who saw it all happen. …
Advice for new news directors
From the outside looking in, the job doesn’t seem that hard. “I remember as a producer looking into that news director’s …
US blind to global TV news game
What if they launched a news channel and nobody here could watch? Would anyone care to know what they're missing? The latest entries in the global TV news game, Al …
Secrets of Fox News’ success
Remember the CNN Effect? Back when the first cable news network had the field to itself, scholars used to argue about its impact on foreign policy. Some said that CNN's 24/7 coverage forced the U.S. government to act too quickly in response …
Leadership lessons
What can a group of broadcast news managers learn from a college basketball coach? The participants at the 2006 …
What’s the cost of going all VJ?
The fear and loathing are palpable on TV industry message boards. On the Web site b-roll.net, some photojournalists call the phenomenon "cheap" and "lame" – and those are the polite terms. What's upsetting them is the spread of what used …
Gaffes go global
Whoever said there's no such thing as bad publicity didn't work in TV news and live in the age of the Internet. Back in the old days, when you made a mistake on the air or did something just plain stupid, you …
When cable networks break in–and why
By Andrea Miller, LSU All three cable news networks have strayed from the traditional definition of "breaking news" but Fox News Channel uses the label far more liberally than the others. The definition has changed so much that a breaking news label is no longer helpful to …
CBS breaks the mold
The buzz about Katie Couric becoming the next anchor of the "CBS Evening News" was so loud, and at times so nasty, you'd have thought something important was at stake. It was. Couric is making history, and it's about time. Half a century …
The perils of branding news
Just when you think the broadcast news business couldn't possibly be more about marketing than it already is, another deal comes to light that further fuzzes the line between journalism and advertising. Remember when stations kept them separate? The idea was to protect …
The Rosenbaum note-taking method
Great reporters often cover the same stories everyone else does, but somehow they do it better. David Rosenbaum of the New York Times was one of those reporters whose stories left competitors muttering to themselves, "Why didn't I see that?" "David beat all of us by …