RTNDA Blog
By Stacey Woelfel
The more transparency we offer the audience, the less they believe us. How does that happen?
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By Al Tompkins
A new generation of websites tells browsers what’s going on in their specific
ZIP codes. That’s what your news site should be doing.
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NBC's Local Media Division has made a very smart move in acquiringLX.TV, the production company that started out in 2006 as an
online-only destination. The move signals a commitment to the O&Os that the net will work with them to produce local, multi-platform content.
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The News & Terrorism Workshop in
Charlotte,
NC,
helped journalists and emergency officials better understand each others’ needs
during a tabletop terror scenario.
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By Stacey Woelfel
WEAU-TV news director Glen Mabie's resignation over a potential conflict of interest has RTNDA Ethics Committee chair Stacey Woelfel discussing industry guidelines. What do you think?
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Steve Safran
Can you have too much audience input? Some Facebook friends and I had an interesting discussion about the ABC News/Facebook Presidential debates this past week. It was prompted by a CNet article from January 6 called "Information overload in the Facebook-ABC presidential debates?"
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Steve Safran
Your station has set its budget for 2008, and you're probably putting more pressure on your sales staff to increase its numbers for the web. That's smart. But the web sales team will not meet those numbers without changing your approach to content.
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Bob Papper
Normally, for my RTNDA blogs, I go through the piles of research that cross my desk every day * take a look at the data to see whether it’s something that we should care about, ignore because the results were pre-determined, or whether it’s too early to tell.
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Steve Safran
You've all heard of Wikipedia and all its charms and controversies. But Wikipedia is just one use of the open source wiki software that is terrific for sharing ideas and the process of group editing. Read More...
Steve Safran
It's a down year, right? I've heard it everywhere I go. TV locals are experiencing a downturn (or at least a flat line) in local ad sales. Many of you are hoping for a kick from politics - but then what?
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Bob Papper
I attended "Pants on Fire" in DC this past Friday. The subtitle of the session was "Political Mendacity and the Rise of Media Fact-Checkers." FactCheck.org (
www.factcheck.org) and the Annenberg Public Policy Center put on the event to report findings for newspaper and television on the use of adwatch type election stories. I was there to present the findings from my part of the research * which many of you were kind enough to help with. Read More...
Steve Safran
When AR and D works with our clients, we help them affect cultural change in their newsrooms. The thing we hear most of all is "We've added blogs, but our staff complains 'that's just more work' and they don't keep up their blogs."
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Steve Safran
Only Hollywood could think that DVDs are "new media." That's right, the producers and the writers of Hollywood content are slugging it out over rights to new media, and they're so old media about it that they can't figure out how to share the money pie. The writers' strike is as predictable as a sitcom plot.
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Did you see the story about avatars doing the news? The most recent story comes out of Northwestern University, where a computer science team is working on having computer-generated characters (avatars) replace news anchors to deliver the news.
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If you are a news manager or reporter who needs something ... or a freelancer who has services to offer ... or a news manager with advice to share ... or you need to reach out to other newsrooms for any reason whatsoever, let us help you connect with your colleagues.
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Petra Mayer
Our last day on the program! No more meetings, no more briefings, just a train trip to the medieval town of
Bruges, sometimes called the Venice of Northern Europe.
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Bob Papper
I haven’t watched the Fox Business Network, but I don’t see why that disqualifies me from writing about it. People at my cable company (Cablevision) say they think it’s on my system, and they’re trying to figure out where; they said they’ll get back to me.
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Petra Mayer
So much has happened in the past few days that I can barely remember it all, despite taking notes!
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Steve Safran
At last week's Networked Journalism Summit in New York City, I discovered a terrific, disruptive product well worth your time.
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Petra Mayer
Petra Mayer is an associate producer for the NPR program Weekend All Things Considered. She is presently participating in the RTNDF journalist exchange program in Germany, a two week fellowship for American broadcast news staff interested in learning more about news, production, and culture from a European perspective. For more on the RTNDF exchange, click here Read More...
Bob Dotson
We're all faced with constant deadlines these days. The twenty-four hour news clock slices time too thin for thought. How can we squeeze out a few more moments for thoughtful writing?
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Steve Safran
This week, Belo announced it is splitting into two companies: one for its TV stations and one for its newspapers. It's not hard to figure why... Read More...
Bob Papper
I’m sure you saw the survey * it’s the kind of stuff newspapers love to print: 62 percent of Americans say TV programs are getting worse. The AP/AOL Television poll found that 22 percent said TV programs are getting better.
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Steve Safran
Want to see how disruptive Google is going to be in the '08 elections? Look at the page they have for the 2007 Australian Federal elections and you'll start to get a glimpse. Read More...
Bob Papper
Advertising.com just released a study that says “a majority of consumers (62 percent) are viewing video online.” And it’s not just young adults watching user-generated stuff, the report says, but “69 percent are ages 35 and older with a preference for viewing news clips online.”
I see this kind of stuff all the time, and I worry that people will start believing it.
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Steve Safran
I just heard a radio station in Boston refer to an interview with Hillary Clinton as an "exclusive." We need to rethink how we use this word.
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Bob Papper
It's a pleasure to be a part of the new RTNDA website ... and seems somehow appropriate given my new position as associate chair and professor of journalism at Hofstra University.
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Steve Safran
I'm honored to be part of the effort to blog here for the new RTNDA site, in no small part because this online effort embodies what the industry needs to do as a whole: change its approach to the web.
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