Live at 5 is dead in Miami. It was killed off temporarily in New York, too. The NBC-owned stations in both markets took the unusual step of scrapping their long-running 5 p.m. newscasts last fall and replacing them with syndicated programs. But WNBC and WTVJ didn’t give up on local news. They moved it to [...]
From the outside looking in, the job doesn’t seem that hard. “I remember as a producer looking into that news director’s office and wondering, ‘What the hell do they do all day?’” says Kathleen Choal, news director at KVOA-TV in Tucson, AZ. “All I see them doing is talking on the phone and watching TV!” [...]
What can a group of broadcast news managers learn from a college basketball coach? The participants at the 2006 NewsTrain workshop in Kansas City would tell you they learned plenty when Kansas head coach Bill Self stopped by for lunch. Just 40 years old, Self has been a head coach for 13 years and has [...]
Many newsrooms are well-prepared to cover a major disaster. They have a plan in place, they practice it often, and they’ve used it more than once. But others either don’t have a plan or can’t remember where they put the one that somebody (who no longer works there) put together years ago. There’s no time [...]