For sheer emotional impact, nothing rivaled the pictures. Few people who were anywhere near a television set a year ago this month will ever forget the sight of a commercial jet slamming into the World Trade Center, live. Television has the power to take viewers …
Participants in the Sensing the News workshop worked in small groups to develop reports on the new technologies explored during the conference. NewsLab and the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota asked them to put issues of cost aside, and simply …
Innovation is all around us: cameras that shoot 360-degree video, audio that makes the user feel immersed in the scene. What journalists need to know is whether these new technologies will result in more engaged and informed news consumers. That was the focus at our …
Television newscasts these days are replete with graphics, in part because new, inexpensive technologies have made it relatively easy …
By Deborah Potter and Tom Grimes Watch television news these days, especially on cable, and you’re likely to see more words than pictures. The graphic look pioneered …
The assignment desk is the nerve center of your newsroom. If it works well, things go smoothly. If not... Assignment editors are managers, and not just of information. They need to know how to manage people as well. But few assignment editors get any training …
Research on television news suggests strategies for making stories more memorable. But most of it is written in dense academic language and published in journals that aren't read by working journalists. This summary--in simple language--is based on a review of 15 years worth of academic …
By Julie Jones Online journalists have a multimedia toolbox full of storytelling possibilities. But since an online story can be told in any combination of words, audio, still photos, graphics and video, some journalists may consider multimedia to be code for multiple confusion. Perhaps the most …
By Amy Reynolds and Gary Hicks Campaign events. Generic video. Candidate soundbites. Those were the staples of local TV stations' election coverage two years ago-in other words, business as usual. And despite the increasing importance of the Internet in providing campaign information, new research finds that …
I-Teams, once endangered in local television news, appear to be making a comeback. "It sets a mood that you are determining your future," says KRQE-TV news director Dan Salamone, whose Albuquerque station recently set up an investigative unit. Salamone and others say that I-Teams can …
By Deborah Potter and Gary Hanson Every news director dreads the angry call: “They put my name on the screen over someone else’s picture!” It’s the kind of mistake that happens all too often in a busy newsroom but it shouldn’t surprise anybody who works in …
by Ashley Wells Ninety-nine percent of the news "interactives" I've seen have nothing to do with storytelling. Most are simply reference material with navigation that amounts to a collection of categories or dots on a map. There are a million innovative ways to do these, but …
