Al Jazeera America did a lot of things right – hired solid journalists with solid credentials, built a state-of-the-art newsroom, and aggressively went after stories. Some say they should have named the news channel something else. Some say the public isn’t interested in long-form news stories. For whatever the reasons, it never caught on. Read a short column about the demise of the network here.
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It’s all about first impressions. It’s how we introduce ourselves. Find out how it works in a TV news story from a KARE-11 Murrow award winner here.
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Some very sharp words of criticism here from a Voice of America reporter based in Washington, DC, about how TV news departments are “reporting” on the Powerball lottery frenzy. Here’s one choice quote: “Much of what is seen and heard on local radio and TV comes from the minds of 20- and 30-somethings who are repeating what they heard on local stations when they were growing up. So it is, by definition, derivative, not to mention cliché, cringe-inducing, unoriginal, off-putting and unfunny.”
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It’s closer than you may think, and a lot of highly respected Journalism organizations are already talking about how it might affect story-telling. A short essay with links to those articles can be found here.
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This morning’s column from Chicago media critic Robert Feder is drawing a lot of comments from women who work in TV news, and reaction from the broadcast news community in general.
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This short article from RTDNA reminds us again, as working news professionals, that it can be very rewarding to share your real-world news-gathering experience with the next generation of working journalists and broadcasters.
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Some thoughts from a Washington Post columnist on the language being used by American news media to describe the men who’ve taken over a federal building in Oregon.
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