Since publishing this story and posting it to the Stortytellers page on Facebook on March 19, at least 25 stations have indicated they have also begun having producers work from home and more are in the planning stages. We'll soon be posting a "how-to" for …
Fran Bi is a storytelling engineer for SBNation. His focus is on taking sports features and finding new ways to tell them. "So, a lot of that is with graphics, whether it’s data visualizations or animations or any type of movement or something else where we …
It should be simple, right? Thousands of young people get broadcast journalism degrees every year, so why is it so hard for TV news stations to fill producer jobs? Part of the problem is that many students have dreams of anchoring the nightly newscast or …
Running a newsroom is both a sprint and a marathon. You have to move fast as things change, sometimes minute to minute, while also planning for the long term. How do you manage? Some of the most popular tools in newsrooms are free and open source, …
There's more local TV news on the air than ever, and more is on the way. That's the headline from the latest RTDNA research conducted by Bob Papper. The median amount of news aired on weekdays, 5.5 hours, broke the old record by half an …
You knew it had to happen, right? A local TV news station has gone "100% iPhone." The station in question is based in Switzerland. Over the summer, Léman Bleu outfitted each of its reporters with an iPhone 6 kit to shoot their stories and to use for live shots. News …
You do it. I do it. We're all watching more video on small screens--on our mobile phones or tablets. Lots of it is stuff that shows up in our social networks. My Facebook feed is overrun by cat videos, and I know I'm not alone; …
In the early days of online video, interactivity looked something like this: A person on camera would point above, below or to the side of the video frame and suggest that the viewer might want to "click the link" to learn more about whatever they were …
6 Lessons from a Murrow Award Winner by Deb Halpern Wenger Lisa Leko is a producer at WBIR in Knoxville, Tennessee, which won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for best newscast among stations in small markets in 2014. Leko recently took part in an RTDNA-sponsored webinar on …
How many local television stations still have old videotape, or even old film, lying around in a dusty back room or basement? "A priceless perspective on the last half century," says WRAL reporter Laura Leslie, whose station in Raleigh, N.C., is now digitizing its videotape …
Stop me if you've heard this before: A local TV station is creating the "newsroom of the future." It will soon launch "an interactive, social newscast with viewer generated news content." This time around, it's the Fox station in Philadelphia, announcing a weekend morning show with "unique" content provided by …
Forty years ago, as a newbie producer at the ABC affiliate in Washington, DC, I had to juggle live coverage of the Watergate hearings. The length of our midday newscast depended on when the network dumped out, and they usually gave us little warning. Some days …
