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 WTMJ conference room for two… Read More: Milwaukee station helps students considering career in journalism »

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 of news websites that make it… Read More: Is your newsroom hard to reach? »

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 — but not consistently — shrinking.… Read More: What’s happening to audience for local news? »