One study estimates that as many as 70 percent of journalists now use social media to do their jobs--mainly to find sources and information quickly. Chip Mahaney, director of digital content for Scripps TV stations, says that Twitter, Facebook and other social media tools can be …
New results from the RTNDA/Hofstra University study (pdf) show only 38% of TV and radio news directors say their staffs are "really on top of new technology and where they're headed." The rest have "a long way to go" (48%)or are "mostly winging it" (13.7%). The …
What is it with the Twitter police? Another screed on the triviality of Twitter has been dismissed as ignorant and foolish. Both sides are equally passionate about the subject: Is Twitter a threat to storytelling? The latest anti-Twitter rant came from journalist Philip Lee, …
by Mike Eisgrau I'm retired after 47 years in the broadcast news business, 24 of them on the air as Senior Reporter, Editor, and News Director of the late, great, WNEW Radio News in New York. I've had to oversee young reporters, at WNEW, as news …
If your goal is to make the online news experience more interactive, you've come to the right place. New tools that can help you do that were on display yesterday at a Washington conference honoring this year's winners of the Knight-Batten awards, and here's …
Going live on TV used to require a truck and a signal--microwave or satellite--to get the story back to the station for broadcast. Obviously, that's no longer the case. Now all you need is a Webcam and the Internet to go live via Skype, and …
Technology has made lots of jobs obsolete over the years. Remember telephone operators? Back in the day, TV photojournalists routinely went out on stories with a sound person and even a lighting tech. The days of the three-person crew are long over. Now, some …
Ask a roomful of journalists if they get enough feedback on their work and you'll rarely see any hands go up. Managers typically say they want to offer more but there's never enough time. And in a short-staffed, overworked newsroom, pulling people together for a …
What started as a means of keeping in touch with her pre-teen daughter has transformed TV veteran Amy Wood into …
The message is familiar to anyone who’s ridden the London Underground, but the warning to “mind the gap” doesn’t just …
If local television news is going to survive, it will have to get out of the living room. And the den. And the kitchen. Having …
A comparison study of live and taped reports By Charlie Tuggle, Dana Rosengard and Suzanne Huffman In terms of manpower and direct costs, live reporting is expensive. Satellite truck and microwave …
