News organizations are using analytics for numerous purposes, including attracting advertising, informing structural changes as well as comparing their performance against that of their competitors. To examine how newsrooms use editorial analytics to inform their day-to-day news production and distribution practices, three researchers interviewed 21 online …
People get weather warnings from sirens, see the text at the bottom of the screen and watch reports on television; they hear alerts over the radio, and receive notifications on their smartphones. Still, there are deaths each year not just from tornadoes, but also hurricanes, …
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 …
You’re on Facebook and Twitter, of course, but are you making the most of each platform? What about Instagram and LinkedIn? Tracy Davidson, morning anchor at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, is on all of the above, early and often. “I start at 1:15 [a.m.] when I wake …
With the ubiquity of personal mobile phones and the low cost of data, Mobile Instant Messaging applications have become popular with ordinary citizens and professionals. WhatsApp, one of the MIM applications, is growing rapidly, allowing its users to send and receive not only text but …
Journalists inform and enlighten their audiences through their writing every day. Political journalists play a key role in helping people form their political decisions. But lifestyle journalism has become recognized in terms of its economic success, its broadening of journalism’s financial base and its cultural …
The data journalists use in their reporting often comes from sources like large government agencies, but concerns arise over whether this “black-boxed” data decreases on-the-ground reporting and local source cultivation. Wilson Lowrey, professor in the Department of Journalism and Creative Media at the University of Alabama, Ryan Broussard, assistant professor …
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, …
As design director at Pitchfork, a Condé Nast brand devoted to music journalism, Joy Zagar's responsibilities covered Pitchfork’s entirety and touched every aspect of the business: leading the team as they visualized the website on a daily basis, functioning as an independent studio for brand …
Sportswriter Wright Thompson equates the work of a profile writer to that of a lie detector. "The one thing I find myself talking about over and over again is the idea that you have to cut through myth and cut through brand," said Thompson, speaking as …
It’s time to retire the term “fake news,” says Margaret Sullivan, the media columnist for The Washington Post. Sullivan joined faculty and students at the University of Mississippi recently to discuss what she calls one of the leading threats to our democracy – fake news. Sullivan joined the Post …
In an ever-changing industry, one community newspaper is still shining a light on important Mississippi issues. First volume of The Northside Sun. Printed Nov. 30, 1967. Photo by Ryan Ward.Since the first volume was printed on Nov. 30, 1967, The Northside Sun newspaper has delivered news …
