Despite more acceptance for natural Black hair in the workplace nationwide, highly-skilled students of color hoping to enter broadcast journalism-related fields are often still deterred from pursuing their dream careers. This is due to concerns about the perception of their natural hair. Many broadcast journalism …
Through discourse analysis, this article seeks to compare the cable news coverage of the Columbine High School shooting and the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting (n = 81) in the first two days of coverage using field theory, with CNN broadcast transcripts as the unit of …
Glen Hale is vice president of digital content and audience development at Gray Television, which owns or operates 161 stations across 101 markets in the United States. However, in a world where broadcast journalism is streamed, posted, aired and scrolled, it has become increasingly important …
Fox News is one of the most popular news sources in the United States. Yet, there are those who reject the idea that Fox should be considered a news source in the first place, claiming it should be considered something more akin to propaganda. This …
Brit Stack, news director for KOAM-KFJX-TV in Joplin, Missouri, has spent a lot of years working with early-career TV journalists. She says before you even think about applying for TV news jobs, you need a strong resume. “I think that one of the biggest mistakes that I …
In the midst of the television news recruiting crisis, Fox News has been building a talent pipeline with a program called the Fox News Multimedia Reporters (MMR). The two-year program hires early-career journalists to report, shoot, produce, and edit their own original content for Fox …
In today’s digital age photojournalists are some of the most important people in the business. Their work not only tells you but shows you news events as they are happening whether it be through stills or video. From natural disasters to presidential assassination attempts, John …
During a discussion panel by the Broadcast Education Association (BEA), speakers asked various professionals what advice they would give to students in journalism who are about to enter their life as professional journalists. Here were their answers. Ben Russel, 10-time Emmy award-winning reporter for NBC 5 …
During a discussion panel by the Broadcast Education Association (BEA), speakers asked various professionals, mostly graduates from West Virginia University, what they wish they had known before entering their life as professional journalists. Here were their answers. Ben Russel, 10-time Emmy award-winning reporter for NBC 5 …
There is no such thing as a typical day for Peyton LoCicero Trist, breaking news reporter and fill-in anchor at WGNO, an ABC affiliate in New Orleans. When her alarm goes off at 2:30 a.m. each morning, she never knows where the day is headed. “I …
This study aims at determining the impact of location on television news audiences. During the COVID-19 pandemic, broadcasters were forced to leave their stations and to work from home because of safety reasons, altering basic journalistic practices. Researchers focused on the Para-Social Interaction and Para-Social Relationship …
Though television remains the predominant supplier of local news in the US, online media has become a great competitor. According to a study of the TV news industry, to understand news media trend lines clearly, there are two key things to consider: One is news …
