Samir Husni is the director of the Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi, as well as Professor and Hederman Lecturer at the School of Journalism. Husni conducted research about a surge in magazines displaying Black people on their front covers. “Starting this summer I …
The Knight Foundation’s Beyond "Live at Five": What's Next for Local News? summarizes research the organization commissioned from University of Mississippi journalism school Assistant Dean Debora Wenger and Professor Emeritus Bob Papper of Hofstra University's j-school. The study titled, Local TV News and the New Media Landscape, focuses …
You already know that Americans have little confidence in what they see, hear or read in the news media. Last year, according to Gallup, trust in media set a new low with just 7% saying they have a great deal of confidence in the news. What’s to be done? A new …
Three more hours of news in one day? OK, so not all three hours are on the same station. But the announcements by stations in Chicago, Grand Rapids and Portland, Oregon that they're adding news all came on the same day, and that says something about …
If you just look at the bottom line, local TV stations appear to be thriving. Revenue was up substantially last year, thanks largely to a flood of political advertising. But viewership was down in every key time slot in every sweeps period in 2012, according …
The "more with less" mantra has become so ingrained in TV newsrooms that the latest data may come as a surprise. Yes, once again, local stations set a new record for the amount of news they aired but they also staffed up to do it. On …
We all know by now that social media are meant to be, well, social. It's not enough to post links on Twitter and Facebook to something you've written and consider the job done. What you really want is for people to retweet, like and comment on your …
When is it news when nothing much changes? When the lack of change signals little to no progress in making broadcast newsrooms more diverse. The latest research from Hofstra University's Bob Papper, produced for RTDNA, says the percentage of minorities employed in radio and TV newsrooms …
by Tim Blotz The Associated Press alert that chimed on my newsroom computer a few years ago was short and direct. “Bulletin: Jeane Kirkpatrick has died.” I leapt from my desk and shouted across the room to my 5 p.m. newscast producers, “Folks, we have to add …
Hold the obituary. Finally, there's some good news for network TV news. Ratings are up this year, both evening and morning, and not just a little. But hold the celebration, too, because it could just be a blip. At first glance, the numbers are nothing to …
For decades, foundations have poured money into journalism training around the world in the belief that strong, independent news media are a vital component of democracy. And for just as long, those funders have wondered if the investment was worth it. Trainers who spent weeks …
Insightful, creative, provocative, irritating. Choose your description--they all applied to Jeff Gralnick, who died this week after a long battle with cancer. He spent more than 50 years in the news business, starting out as a desk assistant at CBS. He served as a senior …
