Monthly Archives: September 2017

Christopher Jones-Cruise thinks the reason is that so many young reporters have heard the horrible syntax of “NewsSpeak” from others in the newsroom, and they think they have to emulate it.

Some of it, to me, is simple laziness. How many cop shop stories conclude with “the incident remains under investigation”, simply because that’s the last sentence of the police report? As a lot of my news coaches told me, decades ago, “journalism is not stenography”, a phrase that’s come back into vogue lately.

Read Jones-Cruise’s interesting column for the RTDNA here.

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One look at this  from Axios and you’ll see what the problem is.

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Newly-installed RTDNA executive director Dan Shelly writes about it in his column.

Many of us who are broadcast news personnel spent time working on a student print publication in college.

The chilling story of universities suing their own student publications is here.

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Be accurate when using psychological terms. This article will help.

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A thousand reporters, eventually – at least that’s the goal. Read the interesting article from Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard here.

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An interesting look at the Voice Artificial Intelligence developments that may impact how consumers get their news.

The article from the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard is here.

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It’s a special section of the WBA Newsroom site, designed for student participation. Submit your video and get reaction from working professionals in Wisconsin broadcast newsrooms!

Find it here.

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I’m talking about Katy Tur’s book “Unbelievable”. I paid for the Kindle download and read it this weekend. It’s full of great, “inside baseball” stuff about how network news really operates – which was more fascinating to me than the first-hand history Tur provides, regarding the Presidential campaign.

I don’t generally review books and seldom suggest a title for other people to read, but this book was far from a dry and wonky analysis of the most strange campaign ever run in political history. As working media, we don’t have time for a lot of recreational reading, because there’s so much work-related stuff to absorb. But Tur’s book is a real page-turner, well-written and appealing, with the kind of stories that any TV reporter will identify with.

Here’s a professional review of the book, from the Washington Post – although, reviewer Carlos Lozado really doesn’t “get it” about the behind-the-scenes TV stuff Tur writes about.

Put “Unbelievable” on your “must-read” list. You’ll enjoy it.

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The numbers tell the story. Read it here.

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Long story short, not really. Here’s the interesting piece from Buzzfeed.

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