by Beth Johnson | App Articles, Know Your Newsroom, Producing
Producers have nightmares about three scenarios, mistiming their shows, not getting their shows done and being called into the ND’s office to be told line-by-line how much their shows flat out sucked. This is a rite of passage in some ways. It happens to everyone at...
by Beth Johnson | Anchoring, App Articles, Political Hotbed, Smart Alliances
A common issue I coach producers on is how to handle it when an anchor decides to “call out” mistakes in front of the staff. Too often, producers have to sit and listen to anchors going off on the set about something that did not work. The comments are often not...
by Beth Johnson | App Articles, Know Your Newsroom, Producing
A successful newscast not only retains the lead-in audience, it continues building audience all the way to the end. That is winning. Make no mistake, if you can do this you will keep your job even if you are the 4th place station. Once viewers tune in and stay, a...
by Beth Johnson | App Articles, Know Your Newsroom, Producing
An EP recently asked me to write an article on this subject. So what makes up a producer’s newsroom? There’s a traditional answer and a more big picture answer. Let’s start with the traditional answer. In a producer’s newsroom, producers have the most control over...
by Beth Johnson | App Articles, Know Your Newsroom, Producing
Managers want to know the decision producers fear most? It’s pulling their only crew off a clear lead, and sending them on a breaker, that might just turn out to be nothing. In newsrooms today the mantra is “New, now!”… “New, now!” You cannot miss a breaker without...
