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 […]
Concern Is Not Cynicism Read More »
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
America’s Local TV Industry Has a Newspaper Problem Read More »
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.
When Local News Removes the Anchor, What Else Does It Remove? Read More »
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
Tell Me Your Story. Just Not All of It. Read More »
