Few people working in television news realize just how devastating the 2009 recession was to stations. Some actually faced going out of business. Many others found they could no longer support news departments. Today’s MMJs, automated newscasts and centralized master control rooms are all the …
Hundreds of journalists from around the country are heading to San Antonio for the Excellence in Journalism conference this week. Lucky them because one of the most frustrating things about working in broadcast journalism is the lack of ongoing training and development. This has always …
From the Washington Post to MarketWatch to The Atlantic, reporters have been writing stories about increased enrollments at a number of the nation's journalism schools. Those bigger numbers are sometimes described as a "Trump Bump," suggesting students are being drawn to the profession in the …
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 …
Effective journalism requires a concrete foundation of ethics for it to succeed and endure. According to Fred Young, former senior vice president for Hearst TV, there are two powerful incentives for ethical journalism: the moral incentive, which concerns decency and honesty, and the practical incentive, …
As newspaper readership continues to decline and local TV news struggles to maintain its share of the audience, much is written about the impact on the business challenges for both. What can get lost in the conversation is the fact that local media are often …
