August 2026

You Don’t Have a Candidate Shortage. You Have a Job Design Problem.

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There is a phrase I hear constantly in media recruiting: “There just aren’t any candidates.” Sometimes that’s true. Certain talent pools have unquestionably gotten smaller. Experienced broadcast engineers are becoming harder to find. Newsroom leadership pipelines have thinned. Sales management benches aren’t what they once were. Consolidation, downsizing, retirements and people simply leaving the business

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Your Best Candidate Isn’t Looking for You

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There is a fundamental mistake I see companies make when they talk about recruiting. They confuse the applicant pool with the talent market. They are not the same thing. A position opens. The company posts it. The job goes on LinkedIn, the corporate career site and maybe a few industry boards. Applications start coming in.

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Concern Is Not Cynicism

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Don’t get me wrong: my blog articles and social media posts are not attacks on the television broadcast industry. They are not written by someone standing on the outside throwing rocks at a business he does not understand. They are written by someone who has spent nearly 15 years taking the industry’s pulse—one conversation at

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America’s Local TV Industry Has a Newspaper Problem

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For decades, local television executives looked at newspapers the way a healthy person looks at someone else’s diagnosis: unfortunate, but not contagious. Print publishers got flattened by Craigslist, Google, Facebook, and the internet’s dismantling of classified advertising. Television stations, meanwhile, sat behind a protected moat of retransmission fees, political advertising, cable bundles, and weather coverage

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When Local News Removes the Anchor, What Else Does It Remove?

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There is a new format taking hold in local television, and it should make every broadcaster stop and think. WMAR-2 in Baltimore has eliminated live anchors from its 7 and 11 p.m. newscasts. The broadcasts now begin with weather, then move into prerecorded local stories, national content, and graphics. No familiar anchor at the desk.

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Tell Me Your Story. Just Not All of It.

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There is one question I ask almost every candidate I talk to. “Tell me your story.” It sounds casual. It is not. I’m not asking because I need you to read your résumé to me. I already have it. I’m not particularly interested in where you went to high school, the first job you had

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When an Outside Hire Becomes a Leadership Signal

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The BBC recently hired a 26-year-old entrepreneur, Brandon Relph, to help shape strategy around younger audiences. He did not come up through a traditional newsroom. He built businesses, worked in technology and youth-focused media, and understands audience behavior from a different side of the business. Before we go any further, let’s meet the “kid.” Relph

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The FCC Can Remove the Cap. It Cannot Remove the Excuses.

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Nexstar’s message is straightforward: local television needs room to compete. Fair enough. The rules governing broadcast ownership were written for another era. Before streaming. Before smartphones. Before Google and Meta took an enormous share of local advertising dollars without having to cover one city council meeting, one school closing, one hurricane or one breaking-news event

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Everybody Wants Consolidation. Nobody Wants to Talk About the Hangover.

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The FCC voted to eliminate the national television ownership cap. Broadcasters celebrated. Wall Street started doing math. And now Newsmax says it is preparing to sue. Welcome to the next chapter of local television. The FCC’s vote removed the long-standing 39% national audience-reach cap and replaced it with case-by-case review of broadcast transactions. Newsmax CEO

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