Category Archives: News

Milwaukee station helps students considering career in journalism

A television station in Milwaukee is helping college students get a hands-on preview of what it’s like to have a career in TV journalism. Janet Hundley, RTDNA Region 4 Director, writes that WTMJ-TV works with UW-Milwaukee to offer a class titled “The Making of Television News” that meets in a... - MORE -

Is your newsroom hard to reach?

Is it difficult for a listener or viewer to contact someone in your newsroom? You might want to put yourself in their shoes and give it a try after reading this piece about how difficult it can be to reach someone in a newsroom. If you have good examples... - MORE -

What’s happening to audience for local news?

The Knight Foundation is taking a look at the current and future state of the audience for local news. It’s Part Five of a five part series titled “Local TV News and the New Media Landscape.” Key findings from this report: • The local TV news audience is slowly —... - MORE -

Making investigative pieces more visual

It’s tough to make investigative pieces work well on TV, especially when the stories involve a lot of paper. That said, they are important stories to tell. Poynter now has some tips for journalists on how to make investigative stories more visual. Some have turned this into an art... - MORE -

What makes for award-winning audio?

The RTDNA is looking behind the scenes to see how this year’s Murrow Award winners are making award-winning content. In this article, they talked to Daniel Wanschura, the reporter behind Interlochen Public Radio’s Excellence in Sound win, about how “Tuning Pianos at Interlochen is a Job That Never ... - MORE -

Wisconsin anchor promotes leadership from anchors

Wisconsin TV anchor/reporter Charles Benson is participating in a RTDNA effort to promote leadership from news anchors. Charles Benson (WTMJ-TV) will participate in an event titled “Anchor Leadership: Truth and Trust in the Digital Age” on July 12-13 at the University of Loyola in Chicago. Ahead of the... - MORE -

Could AP be run by robots?

Can the people at the Associated Press be replaced with artificial intelligence? It’s already happening, in some areas, and how AP promises to expand its use of IA and improve it. One area of potential expansion: video. How far can robots come to replacing human news gathering?... - MORE -

RTDNA Coverage Guidelines You May Never Need

Mass shootings. They always happen somewhere else, except when they don’t. That’s why it’s best to review some guidelines now, even though you may never need them. The RTDNA article with a link to the guidelines is here. Posted by Tim Morrissey... - MORE -

A New Twitter Policy You May Have Missed

Many news people are active on Twitter, sharing their stories and often sharing events in their personal lives. So, it’s not likely that any of us will run afoul of Twitter’s new policies regarding those who “detract from the conversation”. But you should be aware of what Twitter is doing... - MORE -

The Future Of TV News?

What if you changed the channel and saw/heard the same news you just heard on another station? It happens. But in this Pennsylvania market, it’s not a coincidence. More from the Washington Post. Posted by Tim Morrissey... - MORE -

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