Monthly Archives: August 2018

Treat yourself this Election Day

From joshuamiranda on Morguefile Election Day is traditionally a long and stressful day for newsrooms. Newsrooms have often soothed themselves on these days with pizza and sweets. WBA Newsroom knows a newsrooms needs some stress relief today and encourages reporters, producers, photographers, news directors, and everyone else in the newsroom to do what... - MORE -

Lessons learned as a news director

News directors have a lot of people to think about. Their GM, their reporters, their audience. It’s a lot to balance. If you’re a news director or just someone looking to appreciate the challenges of being one, you’ll want to check out this article from RTDNA written by Austin Kellerman,... - MORE -

This innovator changed newsrooms

You probably never heard of Dr. Joe Flaherty, but his innovations revolutionized television, and TV news in particular. Flaherty worked for CBS and is credited with ending the use of 16mm film for news gathering and replacing it with electronic news gathering. This ended the long and tedious process of... - MORE -