"One month into 2012, are you making progress achieving your financial
resolutions? If not, we rounded up a few tips to make your goals a
reality when it comes to money. Keep reading!
According to Business Insider, there are several tips to help your audience members. A few are listed below and they continue inside the link:
1. Set Short Term Goals:
If you’re goal is to pay off about $2,000 of credit card debt by the
end of the year, give yourself a monthly and a weekly amount of money
that you can gather to throw towards this debt. Maybe it’s around $50
per week or $200 per month – if you stick to those numbers, you should
have this debt paid off..."
Team up with over 1000 American and German journalists who have participated in the RIAS Fellowship. The 2012 summer program will run for two weeks in mid-June, and take radio, TV, and multimedia journalists to Berlin, Cologne, and Brussels. Along the way you will meet senior German officials, policymakers, and fellow journalists. And you will learn about European press coverage and standards.
By Dr. Lydia Reeves Timmins, University of Delaware
I can. I do. And I teach.
The implication of the title statement is that if you have skills,
of course you use them in the professional world. Before I entered
academia, I must admit I thought that people only became teachers
because they couldn’t do whatever it was they were teaching. I thought
(in the news biz) that all those profs just couldn’t cut it in TV; that
they were unwilling to work hard, just wanted an easy schedule, or only
cared about theories and all the crap that doesn’t matter in the
trenches.
Many of you reading this might think along those lines. Perhaps you remember a professor who was all talk, but no experience...
RTDNA has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Murrow’s pursuit of excellence in journalism embodies the spirit of the awards that carry his name. Murrow Award recipients demonstrate the excellence that Edward R. Murrow made a standard for the electronic news profession.
In 2011, 600 Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards were handed out and of those 600, 95 went on to win National Edward R. Murrow Awards.
OK, that headline is a joke on the old teases like "when sneakers kill..." I couldn't resist!
(And please note: I prefer spelling '"lead," for example, '"lead line"as "lede" to avoid confusion in print.)
Our job as journalists is to discover and report news. If you're
anchoring, it's unlikely you've done the discovery but it's certainly
your job to know the story so that you can share it with us from a base
of intelligence and context.
You know those really funny replies you leave beneath your friends Facebook posts?
You know the comments I’m talking about, the really snarky ones that have lots of “likes” and “LOLs”?
Those comments that show your friends you should really be working for The Daily Show, not some stuffy NPR outlet?
OK, maybe that’s just me. But how would you like to see any of the
comments you leave on your friend’s Facebook page show up the next day
on the front page of the newspaper, as a quote, attributed to you?
Every year RTDNF honors individuals in the field of broadcast journalism for their work on behalf of press freedom.
The 22st Annual RTDNF First Amendment Awards Dinner, a black-tie
event, will be held March 15, 2012, at the Ritz-Carlton, 1150 22nd
Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. The evening begins at 6:30 p.m. with a
cocktail reception followed by a 7:00 p.m. dinner. For table and ticket
information, contact Jen Wafalosky at 216.409.8314 or jenwafalosky@sbcglobal.net.
By Dr. Lydia Reeves Timmins, University of Delaware
A new year, and a new kind of class to teach. My university has
“winter session”, a whole semester’s worth of class jammed into the
month of January. It’s a whole lot of classtime in a short amount of
time (well, short in the academic sense. Not in the news sense).
I’m teaching a basic course on Mass Media in Society. So not just
news—but all kind of media. A very interesting change from my usual
broadcast and journalism roster. One of the biggest differences is in
the students...
The premature and erroneous initial reports this past weekend about
the death of former Penn State legendary coach, Joe Paterno, once again
raise troubling issues about the “need to be first” mentality, despite
the fact that information is unconfirmed and unsourced.
These problems are compounded in our 24/7, multi-platform news and
social media world—but the lessons to be learned are really no different
than in the days when Americans had little more than a few radio and TV
stations and a local newspaper in their markets.
But what has changed—and, unfortunately, increased the “we need to
be first” pressure is that traditional media is competing not only with
itself...
From Illinois Statehouse News:
"It is time for Illinois courts to become more transparent by allowing
cameras into courtrooms, Illinois Chief Justice Thomas Kilbride told
Illinois Statehouse News in an exclusive interview."
"On Tuesday, the state Supreme Court is expected to announce it will
allow trial court proceedings to be filmed and tape recorded for the
first time in the state’s 194-year history, Kilbride said."
"Illinois is one of 14 states where cameras in trial courtrooms are
either not allowed or not used, according to the Radio Television
Digital News Association, a professional organization serving the
electronic news profession and dedicated to setting standards for news
gathering and reporting... "
Please take a moment to complete this five-question survey regarding the 2012 Excellence in Journalism Conference. This is the annual joint convention held by RTDNA & SPJ.
One survey participant will be chosen at random to receive a free session-only registration to the 2012 conference!
RTDNA honors outstanding achievements in the coverage of
diversity with the RTDNA/UNITY Award. The award is part of the covenant
the association has adopted with UNITY: Journalists of Color, to achieve
diversity in the newsroom through developing news content and editorial
staffs that reflect the changing face of communities. The purpose of
the award is to encourage and showcase journalistic excellence in
covering issues of race and ethnicity. It is presented annually to news
organizations that show an ongoing commitment to covering the diversity
of the communities they serve.
Enter your radio, television or online news organization in the
RTDNA/UNITY Awards and showcase your ongoing commitment to covering
diversity issues. This prestigious award will bring recognition to your
news team and increased respect from your audience.
Edward
Esposito, chairman of the Radio Television Digital News Association
from 2007-2008, and an instrumental figure in the success of the RTDNF
scholarship and fellowship programs has been named secretary and
treasurer of RTDNF, the educational arm of the Radio Television Digital
News Association.
Esposito (right in the photo) has had a place on the
RTDNA/F board since 2003, and has served in various roles, including
chairman and trustee. His most recent appointment to the RTDNF secretary
and treasurer position will have him oversee Foundation investments and
continue to work on the Foundation's scholarship programs. Esposito
fills the unexpired term of Mike Cavender, who resigned his position as
Foundation Treasurer to serve as RTDNA/F Executive Director.
The holiday feeding frenzy has come to an end. Your audience is ready to
shed some of that winter weight, and they've made a resolution to join a
gym. But which gym do they join? Should they take gyms up on those
introductory personal training sessions? And what’s all this small print
on the contract?
Among the most interesting and, perhaps, entertaining aspects of the
corruption trial of former Cuyahoga County Commissioner and County
Democratic Party boss Jimmy Dimora, is its treatment by the media.
By far, most of the Cleveland-based news organizations following the
trial -- The Plain Dealer, all four television stations, and some radio
stations -- follow as any spectator would: inside the courtroom of U.S.
District Judge Sara Lioi at the Seiberling Federal Building in Akron.
Lioi has adopted the anti-Judge Ito (my term, in honor of O.J. Simpson presiding criminal trial Judge Lance Ito) view of managing the reporters covering the People v Jimmy Dimora...
On September 20 - 22, 2011, the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA), the largest association of electronic journalists, again joins forces with the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) is hosting Excellence in Journalism 2012.
Our national conference in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. will be more than a partnership;
it will be a gathering of professional journalists with shared
interest. As a student journalist, we want you to be part of it!
We invite you to apply to be an RTDNA Reporter or volunteer on our logistics team.
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Team up with over 1000 American and German journalists who have participated in the RIAS Fellowship. The 2012 summer program will run for two weeks in mid-June, and take radio, TV, and multimedia journalists to Berlin, Cologne, and Brussels. Along the way you will meet senior German officials, policymakers, and fellow journalists. And you will learn about European press coverage and standards.
By Dr. Lydia Reeves Timmins, University of Delaware 
By Joanne Stevens, Stevens Media Consulting LTD
By Vince Duffy, RTDNA Chairman-Elect
By Dr. Lydia Reeves Timmins, University of Delaware
From Illinois Statehouse News:
RTDNA honors outstanding achievements in the coverage of
diversity with the RTDNA/UNITY Award. The award is part of the covenant
the association has adopted with UNITY: Journalists of Color, to achieve
diversity in the newsroom through developing news content and editorial
staffs that reflect the changing face of communities. The purpose of
the award is to encourage and showcase journalistic excellence in
covering issues of race and ethnicity. It is presented annually to news
organizations that show an ongoing commitment to covering the diversity
of the communities they serve. 
The holiday feeding frenzy has come to an end. Your audience is ready to
shed some of that winter weight, and they've made a resolution to join a
gym. But which gym do they join? Should they take gyms up on those
introductory personal training sessions? And what’s all this small print
on the contract?
By Edward Esposito, RTDNF Secretary / Treasurer
