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As broadcast and investigative journalism continues to evolve in the 21st century, stay up to date on the latest developments in the industry through our Broadcast Journalism School’s how-to guides, Q&A’s and interviews, and articles detailing the cutting edge trends.
How to Break Into Local News as a Broadcast Journalist
May 26, 2017If you want to break into journalism, you better prepare yourself for it first. Unlike traditional disciplines where you can enroll yourself in a course, ...
How Broadcast Journalism is Shifting in 2017
May 1, 2017Broadcast journalism has played a significant role over the last few decades in reporting national and international news. In 1935, Howard Armstrong broadcast the first ...
How To Produce Sweeps Pieces Or Stories In Series Form
May 5, 2016In broadcast journalism, most stories are reported as they happen, and covering the new developments of a story for several days or even weeks doesn’t ...
How To Find And Get Journalism Internships
May 5, 2016Internships are helpful for students who want a hands-on learning experience in a real TV or radio station. Interning with a broadcaster can help you ...
How To Get The Story First And Not Get Scooped
May 4, 2016If you spend time on social media, you might have seen the story of nine-year-old reporter Hilde Kate Lysiak, who broke the story of a ...
How To Make A Great Audition Video
April 22, 2016Most broadcast journalism students who want to pursue an on-air career make an audition video in their senior year, prior to applying for jobs in ...
How To Read The News Like A Professional News Anchor
April 1, 2016Reading the news off a teleprompter may sound easy, but it’s actually more complicated than it seems. Anchors and reporters have to develop a reading ...
How To Stack A News Show
March 21, 2016What is Stacking a Show?
“Stacking a show” is a phrase broadcasters use to describe putting the segments of a newscast together. Usually the job of ...
The Ultimate List Of Broadcast Journalism Terms
February 19, 2016The amount of technical jargon in the world of journalism—often even for very simple concepts—is notorious, and even if you’ve spent a few years at ...
How To Nail An Interview As A News Reporter
February 11, 2016As a journalism student, you’ve probably learned a lot of different techniques for interviewing people. Being open and friendly, putting the interviewee at ease, asking ...
Broadcast Journalism Jobs: Is A Control Room Job Right For You?
February 11, 2016Last week we talked about the pros and cons of on-air careers. While many people want to be in front of the camera, others prefer ...
How To Cover Weather News
February 9, 2016As a reporter, there will likely be many times when you will have to go outside and cover a weather story. While this is normally ...
How To Deal With Slow News Days….Weeks…Months?
January 14, 2016When you decided on a career in journalism, you may have imagined yourself working for a large TV station, or even a national network. However, ...
How To Sound Like A Professional Journalist
December 30, 2015Writing and speaking like a professional have always been important concerns for journalists. But today, with advertorials cluttering up TV station websites and social media ...
4K UHD TV: How To Prepare For The New Standard
December 2, 2015The latest HD television technology is called 4K, or Ultra High Definition (UHD), sometimes also called 4K UHD. Previously, there were three ways to describe ...
FCC Updates To The Contest Rules Better For Broadcasters, Viewers
November 13, 2015On September 17 of this year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) updated its Contest Rule, allowing broadcasters to post contest “rules and regulations” solely online ...
2016 Elections And TV’s Need For A Millennial Social Media Strategy
November 11, 2015According to a 2015 Pew Research report, almost two-thirds of Millennials (61%) view news on Facebook, more than any other news source. Only 37% say ...
Online Radio And Millennials: Stats And Trends
October 29, 2015
Over the past fifteen years, there has been nothing short of a sea change in how different generations listen to radio, While most radio listeners ...
Measuring Viewer Impact With Social Media Tools
October 5, 2015It’s no secret that increasing numbers of Americans across all demographics are obtaining news from social media—mostly Facebook and Twitter. According to a July study ...
Podcasting: A Growing Medium for News
September 29, 2015NPR reports downloads of their podcasts were up 14% in 2014, according to the 2015 State of the News Media report. In fact, the number ...- Handling Retransmission Fees; A Curse And A Blessing For Broadcasters
September 22, 2015According to a 2015 Pew State of the Media report, retransmission fee revenue for local stations has been steadily growing since 2006, leaping up from ... 
How To Adjust For The Increasing Popularity Of Early Morning News
September 11, 2015Morning news viewership for local TV news has been steadily increasing since 2012, according to the Pew Research Center’s 2015 State of the News Media ...
The Use Of User-Generated Content In Broadcasts
September 9, 2015In today’s world of viral videos and retweets, many broadcast journalists turn to user-generated content to stay relevant with their audiences. User-generated content (UGC) generally ...
How To Utilize User-Generated Content
September 9, 2015User-generated content, or UGC, is everywhere these days. Many broadcast journalists feature it during newscasts, and even on the broadcaster’s website and social media profiles. ...
How To Save Time And Money: Remote Production
August 27, 2015Live or up-to-the-minute coverage of news events is expensive for TV stations, but also essential in today’s fast-paced world of viral videos and many big ...
How To Personalize News For Viewers In A Multimedia World
August 18, 2015Every day, broadcasters struggle for new ways to stay relevant as viewers spend more time watching video online than on TV. According to a 2014 ...
How To Use Social Media To Do More As A Broadcast Journalist
August 12, 2015Social media provides multiple platforms for promoting a TV or radio station, its programming, and its on-air talent. Social networks are also great places to ...
How To Adapt A National News Story For A Local Audience
June 24, 2015Adapting a big news story for local audiences is an increasingly popular trend in today’s news landscape, which is dominated by social media and viral ...
How to Get Into Broadcast Journalism: 5 Things To Consider
March 24, 2015Broadcast journalism is an exciting career that offers a wide range of opportunities, but you must possess the right skills.There are a few golden rules ...
How To Follow Your Dreams And Land A Job In Broadcast Journalism: Interview With Miriam Eryan
June 17, 2014Upon graduating from the New York Film Academy’s School of Broadcast Journalism, Miriam Eryan scored a dream job at The Morning Show in Australia.
Miriam now works as ...
Q&A with New York Film Academy (NYFA) Broadcast Journalism and Documentary Filmmaking Alum Clyde Gunter
January 10, 2020US Navy Veteran and recent New York FIlm Academy (NYFA) Broadcast Journalism and Documentary Filmmaking graduate Clyde Gunter is starting a 13-month paid, full-time Leadership, ...
Q&A With Solmaz Sharif, UN Correspondent at Voice Of America Persian
December 19, 2014NYFA: Can you tell us a bit about yourself, your background, and what first got you interested in broadcast journalism?
Solmaz Sharif: Well, this is my bio ...