My hometown newspaper, The Washington Post, has been rocketing up the comScore rankings of top digital media companies. Last August, it wasn't even in the top 50. Two months later, the Post ranked 36th, beating the New York Times (37th) for the first time ever. How much of that improvement is …
You knew it had to happen, right? A local TV news station has gone "100% iPhone." The station in question is based in Switzerland. Over the summer, Léman Bleu outfitted each of its reporters with an iPhone 6 kit to shoot their stories and to use for live shots. News …
This time, Bob Schieffer says, it's for real. After 46 years with CBS News, he plans to step down as host of Face the Nation and retire this summer. He's talked about retirement before, but it didn't take. The truth is he was having way too much …
It only took a week. It must have felt much longer to Brian Williams. The network suspended its main news anchor last night, saying his actions were inexcusable. Taking him off air for six months without pay, said NBC Universal CEO Steve Burke, was a "severe and …
Three more hours of news in one day? OK, so not all three hours are on the same station. But the announcements by stations in Chicago, Grand Rapids and Portland, Oregon that they're adding news all came on the same day, and that says something about …
Riddle me this: If big TV station groups keep getting bigger, what happens to local news? It's a question I tried to answer, in part, in this year's State of the News Media report. Over the years, as stations have been bought and sold and joint …
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, …
Another year comes to an end with another year-in-review post. I guess you could call it a NewsLab tradition. Taking a look back at the year gone by is one way to get a sense of what NewsLab readers are most interested in; it's also …
He has a memorable name and a prominent job, but public radio’s Kai Ryssdal followed anything but a typical career path on his way to anchoring the daily business program Marketplace. His story proves the truth of his own maxim: “Do what you love.” After eight …
For the first time in four years, local TV news salaries have taken a dive. The latest RTDNA/Hofstra University survey says pay was down on average by almost 2% in 2012. If you factor in the rate of inflation, real wages were down by about 4%. Just …
Research a few years ago suggested that the bloom was off the rose for news-sharing agreements between TV stations and newspapers. An uptick during the recession may have been fleeting, according to the latest RTDNA survey, and there's nothing in this year's data to indicate a …
Local television news can be so easy to mock. Happy-talk anchors, meaningless live shots and enough on-screen grammar goofs to send an English teacher into orbit. The good news is that it's not all terrible. But a lot of it is and, sadly, there's not …
