RTNDA Cover-It-Live Sessions

January 28, 2010 - News & Terrorism Workshop from St. Louis

 

Follow along below as Mark Willis from Sirius/XM blogs for RTDNA at the TAB Southwest Broadcast Newsroom Workshop.  Al Tompkins from the Poynter Institute will be leading the session - "Cool Tools - Releasing Your Inner Geek"

Follow along below as Mark Willis from Sirius/XM blogs for RTDNA at the TAB Southwest Broadcast Newsroom Workshop.  Al Tompkins from the Poynter Institute will be leading the session. "Releasing Your Inner Geek"

Robert Papper, Hofstra University, discusses RTNDA's latest research on news websites - how we're using them, what staff is working on them, what they feature, are they turning a profit, are they seeing increases in traffic and more.

Follow along below as Scott Woelfel, President and CEO of Armchair Media discusses the features of the most successful news websites.  How are they successful?  Learn how to implement these features on your own website and learn how to increase traffic in the process.  Scott will also explore the Breaking News model - newsrooms tend to run breaking news on TV first, web second, when statistics indicate, especially during the day, that more people come to a website for news than watch it on television.  How can you change this model for your newsroom, make it less reliant on TV and more on the web and mobile technology?

Fast changing technology means new ways of telling stories and connecting with our audiences, it also means managing ethical questions that arise online. Does your newsroom have online standards consistent with what you would air?  What are your station’s guidelines for bloggers?  How are you confirming the accuracy of information from citizen journalists and how are your treating user comments?  What new issues are you grappling with when using Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites?  Follow along with the discussion below. 

Moderator: Steve Schwaid, Director of News and Digital Content,  WGCL-TV
Panelists: Amani Channel, My Urban Report
Mike Dreaden, Managing Editor, WSB-TV
Tessa Horehled, Editor-in-Chief, Drive a Faster Car
Josh Levs, CNN, iReport

 Produced by RTNDF and sponsored by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.  

If you weren't able to attend the "Video Free For All" session here in San Francisco, we've got you covered! Check out the CoverItLive session archived below for a great recap of the event.

Session Resources:

For a list of all the video appearing in session click here.

For a list of RTNDA's video and audio editing guidelines, click here.

CNN in Atlanta

Follow along below with Steve Safran, Senior Vice President, AR & D, Stacey Woelfel, RTNDA Chairman and Ed Esposito, RTNDF Chairman

 New Tools, New Strategies, Top Leaders, Part II:  Jill Geisler, The Poynter Institute, Chip Mahaney, E.W. Scripps Company, Stacia Deshishku, CNN and Victor Hernandez, CNN lead a discussion about the 2009 trends in the newsroom, including new ways to use Facebook, how to lead amidst all the change in your newsroom, how to measure your success with web metrics and how to take everything covered at today's workshop and make it work for you and your team.

 

Follow along below with Steve Safran, Senior Vice President, AR & D, Stacey Woelfel, RTNDA Chairman and Ed Esposito, RTNDF Chairman

 New Tools, New Strategies, Top Leaders, Part I:  Jill Geisler, The Poynter Institute, Chip Mahaney, E.W. Scripps Company, Stacia Deshishku, CNN and Victor Hernandez, CNN lead a discussion about the 2009 trends in the newsroom, including how to make the most of Twitter and new tools for your newsroom. 

Follow along below with Steve Safran, Senior Vice President, AR & D and Stacey Woelfel, RTNDA Chairman

News Coverage in a Socially Networked World:  Poynter’s Jill Geisler leads a conversation on standards and systems with Gena Somra, Executive Producer of Iran Desk, CNN and Katherine Green of CNN International. On the agenda: lessons learned during the 2009 Iranian election protests, developing domestic stories, how to use user generated content and social media.