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Clark MerrefieldSeptember 29, 2021

Covid, Sinclair Broadcasting, and changing job roles: 5 recent studies on the state of local TV news

Research explores how local TV news affects public perceptions of pandemic protocols, the rise of national coverage on local TV news, and changes in how local TV journalists do their jobs.

The Stanford Cable TV News Analyzer lets you analyze who and what gets airtime

Thomas Alan SchwartzNovember 13, 2019

Nattering nabobs of news criticism: 50 years ago today, Spiro Agnew laid out a blueprint for attacking the press

“In his attacks on television news, Agnew struck a chord with conservatives who had long regarded the media with suspicion. Nixon later called Agnew’s speech a ‘turning point’ in his presidency.”

Christine SchmidtAugust 1, 2019

What does a solutions-focused newscast on public TV look like? PBS39 has been at it for nearly a year

“It wasn’t, like, ‘bam bam soundbite soundbite you’re done.'”

Laura Hazard OwenJune 26, 2019

TV is still the most common way for Americans to get local news, but fewer people are watching

Cable news is growing, local TV news is declining, and network news is roughly flat.

Christine SchmidtJune 13, 2019

Investigative Network aims to bring more documentary video to local TV (but it’ll need funding first)

“What I’ve seen with most nonprofits is they’re driven by former print people who have transitioned to digital. I can’t tell you how many times I see a digital story and think it would have been a good 10-minute, 15-minute, hour-long documentary piece.”

Marlee BaldridgeJune 27, 2018

Fewer women, people of color worked at radio stations in 2017 than 2016, a new survey shows

While more women are taking on leadership roles in radio and TV, fewer people of color are working in radio and TV is nowhere near representative.

Joshua BentonMay 23, 2018

Vox’s new Netflix series is really good, but it doesn’t get us any closer to figuring out what news on streaming platforms looks like

The real revolution in video news will be when someone, someday, figures out a way to make timely, high-quality, democratically useful news work natively on a streaming platform.

Shan WangApril 26, 2018

How much of what local TV stations post to Facebook is actually local? For many, right around half

Stations in our sample posted an an average of just over 50 percent local content, using an an extremely generous threshold for “local” content.

People are watching a lot less TV news (especially local TV) as they get more news online

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