RTNDA Blog
Ed Esposito, RTNDA Chairman
It has been quite a 2008. I was reminded of just how much change we’ve seen by the recent decision by our colleagues at the American Society of Newspaper Executives to put to a vote a name change, to the American Society of News Executives. ASNE also proposes new web-only membership, expanding beyond the historic newspaper-only designation that has marked the Society since it was formed in 1922. Both items require member approval at ASNE’s meeting next April.
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Lynn Jimenez, KGO-AM
KGO Radio’s Lynn Jimenez keeps listeners up to date on “Your Money” every weekday on KGO’s Morning News. She has been KGO’s business editor since January of 1990, reporting live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, San Francisco. Jimenez is also author of ?Se Habla Dinero? The Everyday Guide to Financial Success, a family financial guide in English and Spanish, available on Amazon.com.
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Kim Saltmarsh
Kim Saltmarsh, winner of the RTNDF Presidents Scholarship is a senior at Hofstra University, site of the third presidential debate. Read about Kim's experience as a student volunteer at the debate.
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Hear from Jill Konopka, reporter/anchor, WBRE-TV, Wilkes-Barre, PA, one of the American journalists on the two week RIAS journalist exchange. The two week trip gives 12 American journalists the opportunity to learn directly about
Germany's culture, politics and practice of journalism.
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Hear from Dan Tritle, Reporter and Host, WCAI radio, Woods Hole, MA, one of the American journalists on the two week RIAS
journalist exchange. The two week trip gives 12 American journalists
the opportunity to learn directly about
Germany's culture, politics and practice of journalism.
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Stacey Woelfel
My association with the Missouri School of Journalism goes back more than 30 years. I began as a student, became an alumnus, and ended up a part of the faculty. Over all those years, it became easy to take the school for granted. But at this celebration of 100 years of educating students in the art and science of journalism, I have time to look back and see just what it is the school has accomplished.
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Anchor Vineeta Sawkar from KSTP-TV in Minneapolis blogs from the Xcel
Energy Center as she covers the Republican National Convention.
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Anchor Vineeta Sawkar from KSTP-TV in Minneapolis blogs from the Xcel
Energy Center as she covers the Republican National Convention.
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Anchor Vineeta Sawkar from KSTP-TV in Minneapolis blogs from the Xcel
Energy Center as she covers the Republican National Convention.
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Anchor Vineeta Sawkar from KSTP-TV in Minneapolis blogs from the Xcel Energy Center as she covers the Republican National Convention.
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RNC blogger Vineeta Sawkar's biography.
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It's Day #4--the final day of the DNC. Check out Kathy Walker's impressions of the big speech.
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Kathy Walker from KOA-AM, Denver, reporting from Denver on the 3rd day of the DNC.
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Kathy Walker from KOA-AM, Denver, reporting from Denver on the 2nd day of the DNC. ��
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Day #1from the DNC from KOA's Kathy Walker.
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KOA Radio news director Kathy Walker blogs from Denver about the Democratic convention.
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Kathy Walker
Journalists preparing to cover the Democratic National Convention in Denver get a warm welcome from Denver's Kathy Walker at KOA-AM.
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Ed Esposito
From AkronNewsNow.com, Letters from the Editor:
The family of the late Ohio 11th District Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones
was dealing with the tragedy of losing a mother, sister, friend. Amidst
the shock and grief of losing someone so vital comes questions on how
the media in total got the story so wrong.�
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My first UNITY Convention and the opening session was a great experience! NABJ President Barbara Ciara gave a rousing speech to help kick things off and the dance program featuring cultures representing NABJ, AAJA, NAHJ and NAJA were just spectacular -- hope you enjoy the Flip video (thanks to RTNDA's Tara Sheehan for letting me borrow her camera, with montage edit nod to Melanie Lo from RTNDA)...
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By Ed Esposito
Chairman Ed Esposito writes about his experiences at the RTNDA Canada National Conference in Ottawa, ON.
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By Ed Esposito
RTNDA chairman Ed Esposito has arrived in Ottawa for the RTNDA Canada National Conference.
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By Dave Busiek
From Dave Busiek, News Director, KCCI-TV, Des Moines, IA.
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By John (JJ) Murray
From news director JJ Murray in Mason City, IA:
Geez, where to start. The flooding caught us off guard. The Mason City market saw the first flooding on
Sunday morning June 8th. We had severe thunderstorms the night
before, but we never saw the heavy rainfall coming overnight. I got a call
about 8:30am that the water on the Winnebago River had breached a levee and emergency management
was evacuating several areas of Mason
City...
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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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