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Comment on Must-have equipment for video journalists by Curate and Share: Tips and Tools for Survival in #Virtual300 | Virtual300

Curate and Share: Tips and Tools for Survival in #Virtual300 | Virtual300 — Tue, 14 May 2013 02:25:11 +0000

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Comment on Good news, bad news for local TV by Industry Blog | Alex Ferrario

Industry Blog | Alex Ferrario — Thu, 09 May 2013 00:01:46 +0000

[...] article talking about how the news on television production has decreased compared to what it used to be. [...]

Comment on The shame of starting salaries in TV news by Industry Issue #4 | Alex Ferrario

Industry Issue #4 | Alex Ferrario — Tue, 07 May 2013 23:20:19 +0000

[...] http://www.newslab.org/2013/05/01/are-low-salaries-driving-top-prospects-away-from-tv-news/ [...]

Comment on Never miss another shot? by Lewis

Lewis — Fri, 03 May 2013 21:13:42 +0000

I find cache mode extremely useful when shooting sports as well. When we are knocking together highlights Friday night for our high school football show, I don’t have time to go through every file, even when I think to bar a good highlight. So I set it to cache mode for 10 seconds, once the ball is snapped I start counting, if the play is good, I hit record, if it isn’t then I just don’t hit the button. I means I have a lot fewer clips to go through when I get back, and If I need to I can just hand it off to an editor and he/she will know exactly what to use because that will basically be the only thing there.

Comment on The shame of starting salaries in TV news by WordsRUs

WordsRUs — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:32:09 +0000

Absolutely! Stations think they’re saving money by churning through endless new college grads (and, in some cases, college juniors & seniors) and sacrificing both market knowledge and newsgathering savvy. The result is a reduction in news product quality…which, in turn, reduces viewer dedication…which translates to lower advertising dedication…lower revenues… Stations should recognize that by investing in their talent, they improve their bottom line in the long run.

Comment on The shame of starting salaries in TV news by chrisallen200

chrisallen200 — Wed, 01 May 2013 20:46:34 +0000

About 15 years ago I also got into an online argument with a news director who complained about the quality of the applicants for his newsroom. He outlined the very items you did: they couldn’t write, they didn’t know much about government, they weren’t willing to work the unusual and long hours. I fired back that I had plenty of students (I teach in a mid-sized Midwestern university) in my classes who could write, who were smart and who worked hard. They were PR and advertising majors. The starting (and finishing) salaries are so much better in those fields. If a young reporter walked into a newsroom and complained that the cheap car he had just bought already needed repairs, the news director, wise in experience, would probably say, “Well, you get what you pay for.” I would turn that same phrase back on the news director him/herself. If you pay more, you’ll get more.

Comment on Covering disasters: Tips for staying safe by Safety Training Programs

Safety Training Programs — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:22:06 +0000

The post which has been shared here is quite informative which is regarding “Disaster Coverage”. In this post I came to know about one thing is that journalists also getting safety training before going to hazardous situations. This thing is very new to me and I was really not aware of such information.

Comment on Local TV rises to the occasion in Boston by Deborah Potter

Deborah Potter — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:52:54 +0000

Details on how the Boston stations covered the end of the manhunt: http://bostonherald.com/business/media_marketing/2013/04/boston_tv_stations_pull_out_the_stops

Comment on What’s wrong with local TV news? by Jim

Jim — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:29:32 +0000

What don’t you call this what it is? It is paid PR. The owner of the company paid to have the opportunity to have CNN feed out his company’s marketing message to every market in the country. They used to call these VNRs.

Companies know the value of having their story told by a trusted local TV news team. It has the appearance of a real news story, but it isn’t. It’s a PR/marketing promotion.

The deception is that viewers aren’t told the story is paid for and is bogus. TV stations trick them and broadcasters wonder why fewer and fewer people consume their product.

That’s no way to treat your customers. Is it any wonder why viewers have tuned out? It’s just not relevant anymore.

TV anchors are not generally journalists. In the Conan piece, they probably never gave a second thought about what they were saying or where it came from.

Like any good performers, news anchors just read their lines.

And that’s exactly why I turned off local news years ago. I don’t think it’s smart to be informed by people who generally have no idea of what they are talking about or the source of what they are talking about.

Comment on What’s wrong with local TV news? by david

david — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:03:24 +0000

Some valid points – but I take exception to the knock against TV news via the “supercuts” of email overload and salty campaigning.

That kind of stuff happens in print and online, too, and a lot more often – but since there’s no pretty/handsome faces reading them, it’s not “mock-worthy.”

More: http://www.greaterfalls.com/index.php/2013/04/18/echo/