News From and About Andrew Heyward
I wrote this report with former Washington Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. It makes the case for fair, accurate and unbiased reporting in the contemporary newsroom, where the traditional …
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Talk about hitting a nerve! Last week’s report on the “Local Newsroom Recruitment Crisis” is already on track to become the Knight-Cronkite News Lab’s most-read article ever. The rupturing pipeline …
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What’s the biggest threat to the future of local TV newsrooms? The long-term challenge may be how to build a sustainable model around a new generation of consumers who will never watch a linear …
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How would you like your newsroom to change in 2022? As we do every year at this time, we looked at our most-read stories of the past 12 months, and they reflect a set of — cliché alert — challenges …
Okay, ready for your next assignment? Close your eyes and take one slip of paper from each of these three bowls. You now have in your hand three randomly selected topics — an event, an issue, and an …
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Is this article weak, fair, good, or excellent? How are you supposed to know? You haven’t even read it yet. But if I worked for TEGNA, I’d be getting that kind of feedback already, while I’m still …
Like a lot of anchors, WTMJ’s morning man Vince Vitrano started out as a reporter. But unlike a lot of anchors, he’s still on the street reporting stories every single week — so much so that viewers …
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“The data was heartbreaking, really astounding,” says Akilah Davis, a reporter at ABC-owned WTVD in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. “In Durham and Chapel Hill metro area schools, Black students are …
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Apple TV+. Paramount+. CNN+. If there’s a sign of the times in TV these days, it’s the “+” sign. “Plus” generally denotes a new program service for on-demand streaming platforms. And local TV …
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“It’s the most thoughtful approach to journalism that I’ve seen in a really long time,” says Meagan O’Halloran. “It seems like the perfect hybrid: national news with a local feel.” O’Halloran has …
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