by Stephen Stock, Investigative Reporter, NBC Bay Area (KNTV) San Jose, California Whether we like it or not, collaboration between various media partners is fast becoming the way many big journalism projects get done. In fact, a vast majority of the Peabody, IRE, DuPont and other …
Any journalist searching for a new job should be well aware that employers routinely Google potential hires and check them out on Facebook. That's one good reason to make sure you know what your profile says about you and to clean it up, if necessary. …
If there's one complaint I hear in every newsroom I visit, it's that everyone wishes they had more time. Time to dig for stories. Time to write. Time to edit. The perception is that nobody has enough time to do everything they need to do. …
By Bob Gould, former NPPA president I teach broadcast news at Michigan State and one day last year I decided to take the students out and shoot a story with the students watching me work. I figured it was much easier to SHOW them as opposed …
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So said Isaac Newton in his third law of motion. And so it seems to me when it comes to opinions on the present or future state of television. What else can you think when, …
It's a given in today's newsrooms. Twitter, Facebook and other social media are just part of the job. Reporters and anchors are expected to feed the beast, drum up followers and interact with them, and promote their stories and newscasts. But who should own the …
What's a bigger threat to journalists' ability to hold government accountable--the Obama administration's crackdown on leaks or the roadblocks thrown up by public information officers? I suspect most reporters outside Washington, DC, would point to PIOs, some of whom seem to think their No. 1 …
Everybody has a story, it's often said. CBS's Steve Hartman turned the adage into a franchise. NBC's Bob Dotson does something similar in his American Story features for the Today Show. They make it look easy, but often times it's not. Just because people have a …
Let me begin by fessing up. I don't know how to code and I doubt very much that I'm going to learn. But I'm blown away by journalists who understand coding and know enough about it to enhance their digital work. So I'm always interested …
For all the gloom and doom you hear about the future of the news business, new opportunities seem to pop up all the time. Take the job Holly Edgell has at WCPO, the Scripps-owned television station in Cincinnati, Ohio. She's the "community editor" for WCPO-Digital, …
Talk about a harsh assessment: "2013 marks the year when ABC World News finally rejected the mission of presenting a serious newscast." That's the conclusion analyst Andrew Tyndall reached after reviewing what the networks covered on their evening newscasts last year. Sadly, the numbers bear him out. ABC …
One of the most common criticisms of local TV news is that stations spend far too much time covering crime. It's a well-founded complaint. Daily crime can be easy and cheap to cover--one stop shopping, so to speak--making it a popular rundown-stuffer. In many markets, …
