Take a mobile phone and a broadcast quality microphone and the world is your storybook. That's what multimedia guru Stephen Quinn believes. Quinn, who teaches at Deakin University in Australia, shared a bit of his enthusiasm about mobile journalism at the World Jounalism Education Conference in …
Editor & Publisher has released its annual list of Eppy award finalists. The Eppy honors the best of the Web and it's always interesting to see which local TV news sites make the list of nominees. This year, as in the past, the list is short -- …
Brett Akagi surprised more than a few people when he left a great job as director of photography for KARE and moved to what his TV colleagues called "the dark side." As senior video producer for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Akagi's mission was to help the …
For years, many local TV websites were just promotional vehicles, featuring smiling anchor photos and broadcast schedules. No more. The latest RTDNA/Hofstra survey finds local news is now front and center on TV sites, including the websites of many stations that don't even have news …
What distinguishes a TV news website from a newspaper or magazine site? If you said video, think again. According to Scott Woelfel of Armchair Media, news sites still haven't really embraced video "even though it's a differentiator." At the RTDNA convention in Las Vegas this week …
With a newsroom staff of just 23, WIBW-TV in Topeka, Kansas, has a wide reach--and not just over the air. The station is a longtime market leader, drawing more than twice as many viewers for its late newscasts in November as the other two stations …
For a long time a lot of smart people have been talking about the need for news organizations to deliver more content to mobile devices, but most of time, the discussions are a little light on how the move will actually change the job of …
As more and more journalism professionals find themselves working both in front of and behind the camera, many are looking for suggestions on how to do it all well. Marc Schollett of TV7-4 in Traverse City, Michigan could be the poster child for this dilemma. …
Tired of aggregators "stealing our content," News Corp's Rupert Murdoch is threatening to make his sites invisible to Google and other search engines. "They shouldn't have had [our content] free all the time and I think we've been asleep," Murdoch told Sky News, in a …
Paywalls are back but will they backfire? That's one of the biggest questions surrounding the move by some big media companies toward paid content online. Last week, Cablevision-owned Newsday made its full content accessible only to subscribers. Bloomberg News is considering charging up to $1,000 a …
While there's still some disagreement about what kind of video works best online, especially in terms of length, there's no debate about the value of raw. But not just any raw video will do. It has to be compelling and visceral, says Andrew Fitzgerald of Current …
If hyperlocal is the future of news, as we keep hearing almost daily, what can we learn from sites that have gone belly up? Mark Potts, who founded one of the original hyperlocal sites, BackFence, shared his top lessons for keeping a site afloat at a …
