As a video news aggregator, YouTube is just getting started. And local television news managers aren't quite sure what to think about its "News Near You" feature, launched earlier this year. Unlike Google News, YouTube isn't trolling for stories already posted on news sites. It's asking …
Smaller staffs, shorter deadlines and more platforms to feed. Is it any wonder mistakes get on the air and online? In today's short-handed, 24/7 newsrooms, it's more important than ever for anyone involved in producing content to double check it for accuracy. Don't think …
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 …
If your goal is to produce a sticky Web site, data is one way to get there. Providing lots of information that people can explore on their own will entice some of them, at least, to spend time on the site. That's part of the …
Turn on a local television newscast almost anywhere in the country and you'll see pretty much the same thing: a male-female anchor team delivering the news from behind a desk on a studio set. Sure, there's some variety. Once in a while, the woman anchor …
The message is familiar to anyone who’s ridden the London Underground, but the warning to “mind the gap” doesn’t just …
Expanding your political coverage on your Web site doesn't have to put a huge strain on your newsroom. If you're looking for ideas to try online or places to find good information, look no farther. During the 2008 campaign, we put together a list of …
Listen up, local television stations. Remember the monopoly you used to have on video? It's long gone. More than 1,000 U.S. newspapers …
Does interactivity affect comprehension and memory for online news? A study conducted by Hesham Mesbah at Kuwait University suggests that it does, but not always for the better. Mesbah had four groups of subjects listen to a radio newscast on computer speakers. All of the groups heard the …
By Ashley Wells Ninety-nine percent of the news "interactives" I've seen have nothing to do with storytelling. Most are simply reference material with navigation that amounts to a collection of categories or dots on a map. There are a million innovative ways to do these, but …
