The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland put out a paper Friday, the day after a gunman killed five people working in the newspaper’s office.
— Capital Gazette (@capgaznews) June 29, 2018
This article from Poynter shared the many front pages dedicated to the shooting that appeared in other papers today.
A panel at the WBA Summer Conference discussed important topics surrounding the safety of journalists and broadcast facilities.
The panel was moderated by Juli Buehler, News Director, WLUK-TV and member of the WBA Board. The panel included:
Dan Shelley, Executive Director RTDNA
Ben Hart, News Director, WISN-TV
David Oxenford, Partner, Wilkinson, Barker, Knauer
Michael Kass, Brown Deer Police Chief
Mike Kemmeter, News Director, Woodward Radio Group
Katie Crowther, Reporter, WTMJ-TV
The panel took questions and talked about methods broadcasters are using to protect their personnel in the field and in their own buildings.
Because of the importance of the topic, the WBA is attempting to bring this panel discussion back to a future WBA conference.
The latest release from the 2018 RTDNA/Hofstra University Newsroom Survey shows that while more women and people of color are working in newsrooms, those numbers are down for radio and the growth in minorities in the newsroom is not keeping up with the percentage of minorities in the U.S. population.
Here are a few more takeaways from the report:
What to you take away from this report?
Are you new to flying a drone?
The Missouri Drone Journalism Program has flown more than 450 sorties since December and has learned a lot. They’re sharing with us five lessons they’ve taken away from their experiences. You can read about them here.
One of the key lessons: Plan everything.
“There’s always room for serendipity in aerial shooting, but you should go in with a plan.”
There is much news coverage right now regarding the rights immigrants have in our federal court system. Here in Wisconsin, it’s unlikely we’d have to do a story about immigrants and the federal court system. It’s far more likely we’d be doing a story that somehow involves our state’s court system.
There is a special section of the WBA Newsroom site to help you quickly understand the basics of how Wisconsin’s court system is structured and how it works.
It’s also a good refresher for veteran reporters who’ve covered court cases in the past.
You can find it here.
Posted by Tim Morrissey
A couple of researchers, whose work has just been published by the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard, say there are three distinct biases that come into play, determining how fake news gets into the social media feed.
The summation of their work is here. It’s fascinating!
Published by Tim Morrissey
A lot of people working in broadcasting in Wisconsin are graduates of the UW-Oshkosh RTVF program. Journalism professor Vincent Filak’s book “Dynamics of News Reporting and Writing” is ranked the #1 new book in Journalism by Amazon.
Here’s a short article about Prof. Filak and his latest publication.
Posted by Tim Morrissey
That’s the title of an opinion piece published this morning by long-time newsman Paul Fanlund, Editor and Publisher of The Capital Times.
His thoughts relate to both print and electronic journalism, and are, I think, well worth reading for anyone who works in any kind of newsroom.
The piece is here.
Posted by Tim Morrissey
EIJ18 will be in September in Baltimore. Registration details are here.
Posted by Tim Morrissey
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