by Beth Johnson | App Articles, Know Your Newsroom, Producing, The Latest
I put this post up on LinkedIn and want to make sure it is here on the website as well. When I started this website 10 years ago the goal was to help with training. I still want to focus on that primarily but over the last several months I have felt called to also...
by Beth Johnson | App Articles, Know Your Newsroom, Producing, The Latest
I expected to get TV news journalists talking with my article on where the producers are and how to keep them. But I must say, the response has been more than anticipated.Between LinkedIn, Twitter, website link, emails and DM’s this discussion has been seen more than...
by Beth Johnson | App Articles, Know Your Newsroom, Producing, The Latest
In the past few weeks, I have seen several posts on LinkedIn either asking where are producers, or appeals from stations and broadcasting groups that frankly as of even a year ago would never have to worry about enough applications. This isn’t a surprise to me, since...
by Beth Johnson | App Articles, Know Your Newsroom, Producing, Writing Help
Let’s face it, journalists are airing and/or publishing more mistakes than they used to. So it is a good time to reiterate some tried and true guidelines to determine when information is safe to tell the world. Breaking News Guidelines Two sources minimum have...
by Beth Johnson | App Articles, Know Your Newsroom, Producing
More and more news managers require newscast critiques for anyone going for editorial positions. This is great because it helps the managers “see how you think” on many levels. The trouble is many producers have no idea how to do newscast critiques. Part of this is...
by Beth Johnson | Anchoring, Know Your Newsroom, Producing
Recently there was a bunch of talk on Twitter about why anchors sometimes feel the need to make producing calls from the desk during a newscast. Producers talked about ways they try and prevent this from happening by being proactive before the show. Others discussed...