It can be very stressful as a future college graduate to apply for a first job in the TV industry. News directors from TV stations all over the South give advice on how to make a good candidate. The news directors present in the panel were James …
When applying for a position at a television news station, it’s important to come equipped with the tools necessary and attractive to news directors. How should you carry yourself in an interview? What should be in your reel? What common mistakes should you be aware …
You're hired! Now what? That first full-time job in a newsroom can be an intimidating experience. There's so much to learn, and most of the veterans are way too busy doing or protecting their own jobs to help a newbie out. But it's critically important to make a good …
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. …
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, …
It's a perennial question and the answer keeps changing: What are TV news directors today looking for in new hires? For Geoff Roth, who's building a new television newsroom from the ground up at Fox 46 in Charlotte, N.C., the list is long and challenging. …
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 …
How many local TV stations have reporters whose primary responsibility is the Web? It's an idea whose has come at WPRI, the LIN-owned station in Providence, R.I., which now has two digital beat reporters, one covering economics and business and the other, politics. "I don't know …
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 …
Some issues just won't go away. More than a decade ago, I wrote a column for American Journalism Review in which I posited that some of the best and brightest J-school grads probably weren't going to work at local TV stations because the salaries were …
A front row seat to history. The privilege of sharing life's most amazing moments. And the God-given right to eat behind the wheel. Nobody ever said working in TV news was all glamour, right? If you've ever been on a six-hour stake-out with no bathroom in sight, you've …
