Despite the importance of the Web to all news organizations, many of them still treat their online teams like poor relations: Stick them in a corner and feed them scraps. But senior web producer Rich Murphy at WTTG-TV in Washington has worked hard to change …
By Holly Edgell, Executive Producer, KOMU-TV and Assistant Professor, The Missouri School of Journalism While producers don’t have the official title of manager, they must develop leadership strategies to manage resources and empower their peers to do their best work. I have found that the best way …
Live at 5 is dead in Miami. It was killed off temporarily in New York, too. The NBC-owned stations in both markets took the unusual step of scrapping their long-running 5 p.m. newscasts last fall and replacing them with syndicated programs. But WNBC and WTVJ …
From the outside looking in, the job doesn’t seem that hard. “I remember as a producer looking into that news director’s …
What can a group of broadcast news managers learn from a college basketball coach? The participants at the 2006 …
The assignment desk is the nerve center of your newsroom. If it works well, things go smoothly. If not... Assignment editors are managers, and not just of information. They need to know how to manage people as well. But few assignment editors get any training …
I-Teams, once endangered in local television news, appear to be making a comeback. "It sets a mood that you are determining your future," says KRQE-TV news director Dan Salamone, whose Albuquerque station recently set up an investigative unit. Salamone and others say that I-Teams can …
Many newsrooms are well-prepared to cover a major disaster. They have a plan in place, they practice it often, and they've used it more than once. But others either don't have a plan or can't remember where they put the one that somebody (who no …
