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In 2020, some of the biggest stories covered by newsrooms were related to the uncertainty around money, whether it be about unemployment, stimulus...

By Mike Beaudet, Anna Campbell, and John Wihbey Unpacking Data in the Reinventing Local News Project So much local news coverage is tied to the...

By Mike Beaudet, Anna Campbell, and John Wihbey Introduction The experiment with animation began with a simple design: start with quality...

Learn how you can up your storytelling game by using animation in your news stories and see the research that proves it can help grow your audience....

By Mike Beaudet, Anna Campbell, and John Wihbey To kick off the RLTVN project’s second phase, we created two new roles at our partner test...

In conjunction with a coalition of news organizations and press freedom groups, Dan Shelley, RTDNA’s executive director and COO, issued the...

What did local news departments do in 2020 that was new or different? In the words of one radio newsroom manager: “survived a pandemic and...

By Dan Shelley RTDNA Executive Director On May 25, 2020 – Memorial Day – the name George Floyd was like millions of others in the...

RTDNA Executive Director and COO Dan Shelley is calling on the Biden Administration to be more open and accessible to journalists. Specifically,...

Dan Shelley, RTDNA’s executive director and COO, released this statement in support of California’s Senate Bill 98, “Public peace: Media access.”

Contrary to all expectations, local TV news ended 2020 with record high employment – until cuts in March 2021 erased those gains. Local TV...

TV After falling in 2019 for the first time in seven years, local TV news salaries made gains in 2020. Despite pandemic-related pay cuts, local...