Debora Wenger
Mobile newsgathering works for covering winter storms
When ice covers the roads, it can be just as hard for news crews to get around as it is for the general public. So, reporter Margaret Ann Morgan and some of her colleagues at Raycom-owned WDAM in Hattiesburg, Miss. got serious about newsgathering with their smartphones during their recent encounter with winter. “Last week …
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Read More →TV News: Good news, bad news about audience growth
At Poynter’s Future of News Conference, the Pew Research Center’s Paul Taylor said that — once again — the younger they are, the less they watch. …researchers in 2012 asked consumers how many minutes they devoted to taking in the news the day before. While the Silent Generation spent 84 minutes with the news, Boomers …
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Read More →Better TV producing: The morning show
According to this year’s RTDNA survey, when TV stations add newscasts, they add morning shows. The big winner was weekend mornings. Over 20% of the news directors who added newscasts listed Saturday morning, Sunday morning or both. Next came the early morning on weekdays, with the 4 am hour and 5 am hour each getting …
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Read More →Infographic and timeline tools made easy
It’s one thing to know your story could use an infographic or a timeline, and it’s quite another thing to build one yourself! So, here’s a look at two, free online sites that make building either a breeze. The good folks at Northwestern University’s Knight Lab have created an open-source tool called TimelineJS that allows …
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Read More →Correspondent talks about coping skills for journalists
Former CBS correspondent Randall Pinkston has covered more than his share of important stories. Whether it’s the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or the Newtown school shootings, he’s been on the front lines for more than 30 years. Sometimes, Pinkston says, the emotion gets the best of him. “I struggle with that. There have been …
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