After graduating from The University of Mississippi in 2021, Griffin DeMarrais landed his first job as a multimedia journalist at the Gray TV-owned KAIT 8 in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Fast forward two years, when moved within Gray to a bigger market and his second job at …
Thousands of college graduates are just three or four months away from the broadcast job hunt. They’re entering a profession known for low pay and high rates of burnout. But there’s still a lot to love about working in news, according to some first-year TV …
WKRG-TV News Director Gene Kirkconnell has more than 30 years of TV news experience and says he has reviewed more than 10,000 demo reels in his career. Kirkconnell says a demo reel is not just a video resume; it's a "trailer for the movie that …
With the development and democratization of technology, journalism as a profession has evolved in the past decades. New technologies introduced new platforms and new audiences, and newsrooms are trying to adapt. “We are genuinely in a revolution when it comes to getting information,” says Raquel Amparo, …
It's job hunting time for tens of thousands of journalism graduates and though the current crisis is making things much more challenging, there are still some jobs to be found in TV news. For those looking to work as newscast anchors, it's going to be …
There is a lot of discussion in the industry right now about improving the quality of local TV news. (Full disclosure: RTDNA researcher Bob Papper and I produced a report on the state and future of local TV news with funding from the Knight …
Thousands of college journalists are graduating right now, but local TV hiring managers say they're still not getting enough candidates for what they need. That means job-hunting journalists have an opportunity to fill critical gaps. Mark Little, news director of WLBT in Jackson and Mike Smith, …
There’s never been a better time to be interested in sports journalism, according to Chuck Swirsky, the play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Bulls. Swirsky has also called play-by-play for both University of Michigan basketball and football and was formerly the play-by-play voice of the Toronto …
