Broadcast Journalism

Broadcast journalism is a profession that requires knowledge, hard work, and commitment. It is not a profession for the faint-hearted, as it requires ample time ...

It’s fair to say that nothing is more exciting than being a broadcast journalist in New York City. Aspiring anchors, presenters and reporters from around ...

More than ever, high schoolers are urged to make big career decisions as early as possible. In a competitive career like broadcast journalism, making smart ...

If you want to break into journalism, you better prepare yourself for it first. Unlike traditional disciplines where you can enroll yourself in a course, ...

The rise of social media has had a permanent impact on the craft of journalism. More articles are being circulated than ever before, viewer criticism ...

Marketing Your Podcast: 7 Newbie Mistakes 
How do you attract new listeners to your podcast and increase downloads? There’s a myriad ways to do this and their ...

In 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 ...

Internships 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 ...

If 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 ...

Most 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 ...

Reading 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 ...

Recently, on a local news program, the show’s anchors congratulated their meteorologist, who wasn’t there because she’d had a baby that morning, and had sent ...

What 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 ...

As 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 ...

As a reporter, there will likely be many times when you will have to go outside and cover a weather story. While this is normally ...

When you decided on a career in journalism, you may have imagined yourself working for a large TV station, or even a national network. However, ...

Writing and speaking like a professional have always been important concerns for journalists. But today, with advertorials cluttering up TV station websites and social media ...

If you’ve spent any time watching news blooper videos on YouTube, you’ve probably seen a wide variety of live shots going wrong. But how you ...

After the recent shootings in San Bernardino, in which 14 were killed and another 14 wounded, the news media naturally wanted to learn more about ...

The latest HD television technology is called 4K, or Ultra High Definition (UHD), sometimes also called 4K UHD. Previously, there were three ways to describe ...

User-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. ...

Live 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 ...

Every day, broadcasters struggle for new ways to stay relevant as viewers spend more time watching video online than on TV. According to a 2014 ...

Social 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 ...

Formerly a place to watch shorter video clips, the mobile market has exploded in the past few years. With mobile ad spending comprising 37% of ...

Adapting 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 ...

In today’s multimedia world, a piece of news, either local or national, can go viral in hours. Anything from a celebrity scandal to a cute ...

New York Film Academy Broadcast Journalism School graduate Joelle Garguilo comes back to speak with us about her experiences: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSXaZGjz6Xc
“I’m Joelle Garguilo, currently a digital journalist at NBC ...

If there’s anything that you’ll learn when being taught journalism in our digital age, it’s that being self-sufficient is the key to your success. Journalists ...

Broadcast 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 ...

The basis of journalism as the fourth estate and a watchdog for corruption and injustice brings an unequivocal responsibility for journalists to be equally skilled ...

With the ubiquity of digital technologies and the unrelenting demand for news around the clock, broadcast journalists have now become the quintessential multitaskers of the ...

Innovations, whether you’re talking about television or the internet, have continued to change how the average person discovers news. And no matter where you look, ...

How many of us wake up in the morning, pick up our smartphones, and turn to Facebook? Ok, maybe you wait until you get to ...

Lights, camera, action! Celebrities grace our television and movie screens on a daily basis. But not every film and television celebrity’s career started with acting. ...

Broadcast journalism has played a significant role over the last few decades in reporting national and international news. In 1935, Howard Armstrong broadcast the first ...

With thousands of female journalists working all over the world, the field of broadcast journalism has come a long way over the last few decades. ...

 
Election season is in full swing here in the United States, which means journalists all over the country are doing the same thing they do ...

In the past, we’ve discussed some of the different job roles at TV stations, but not every graduate with a broadcast journalism degree works in ...

Working in broadcast journalism can be an engaging and exciting job, but every job has its drawbacks. In the news business, there’s always a steady ...

Last week presidential candidate Donald Trump told supporters at a rally in Texas that, if elected, he wants to “open up libel laws” to make ...

The 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 ...

Producers frequently do many of the same tasks as reporters—they come up with story ideas, and in some cases do the legwork of setting up ...

Last 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 ...

While many people choose a broadcast journalism major because they aspire to be news anchors, there are many positions in the field, and all have ...

What is Media Bias?
As a journalism student, you’ve probably learned a lot about objectivity (what all reporters are supposed to have) and media bias (what ...

It’s no secret that the way we watch things is changing at a rapid pace. While 77% of adults say they regularly watch TV via ...

On September 17 of this year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) updated its Contest Rule, allowing broadcasters to post contest “rules and regulations” solely online ...

In a time where one is connected to the world through an object small enough to fit into the palm of his or her hand; ...

According 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 ...

 
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 ...

According a recent Pew Research report, local news viewership has grown in general, with total on-air ad revenue for affiliates hitting $20 billion in 2014, ...

The idea of using drones for news gathering has excited journalists since the unmanned flying machines became popular a few years ago. In 2012 Congress ...

Streaming video is nothing new, and TV stations frequently feature live coverage of news conferences and events on their websites. But today’s viewers aren’t spending ...

A recent Washington Post article highlights the decline in cable news audiences, reporting that since 2009, the median daily audience for the top three cable ...

It’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 ...

NPR reports downloads of their podcasts were up 14% in 2014, according to the 2015 State of the News Media report. In fact, the number ...

According to a 2015 Pew State of the Media report, retransmission fee revenue for local stations has been steadily growing since 2006, leaping up from ...

Morning 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 ...

In 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 ...

For years, live and up-to-the-minute coverage of news and events has been both essential to capturing viewers’ attention and very expensive to produce. In today’s ...

While news broadcasts are still aimed at the masses, broadcasters are finding new ways to personalize how viewers get their news. After watching the evening ...

According to a 2014 Pew Research report, the lines between public relations/marketing and news are becoming increasingly blurred, with news giants like The New York ...

Sponsored content continues to grow, with a Business Insider article predicting native ad spending will reach $7.9 billion this year. This is especially true for ...

For years broadcast journalists have used social media to announce new stories or new information on a previously covered topic, generate interest in live TV ...

Audiences for both local and national news are increasingly getting news from mobile devices, as shown in a 2014 Pew Research report. According to the ...

According to a recent Tubefilter article, the U.S. Media Industry Forecast predicts digital ad spending will reach almost $42 billion in 2015. The study suggests ...

Recent estimates of current U.S. ad spending by Strategy Analytics show that while digital marketing continues to grow, it’s still almost $30 billion behind TV ...

Social media’s impact on broadcast journalism is reshaping the way in which we all get, share and discuss news. According to a recent Pew Research ...

EARLY DAYS – 30s & 40s
“Edward Roscoe Murrow” – the significance of this name in broadcast journalism cannot be overlooked for those who are remotely ...

Every now and then – perhaps a decade, sometimes longer – a news story comes along that grips the entire nation as it breaks live ...

For many, the Internet is simply a wonderful playground of distraction full of cats, memes, and memes about cats.
YouTube is, technically, the second biggest search ...

Many of us get our daily news from television networks such as CNN and MSNBC, so it’s no surprise that broadcast journalism is an attractive ...

The TV and broadcasting is a tough nut to crack, but once you get your foot on the job ladder, a long and varied career ...

Broadcast journalism is an ever-changing medium which has really thrived over the last decade, so it’s little surprise that so many people are looking to ...

We’ve covered what native advertising is and how it can be of benefit to both advertisers and content creators – whether it be a news ...

If you’ve ever spent more than ten minutes browsing online, you’ll have seen examples of native advertising even if you didn’t recognize it at the ...

It’s an exciting time for not just broadcast journalism but for the very concept of journalism itself as technological advancements, arguably like never before, push ...

Working in broadcast journalism is a funny old beast—sometimes dangerous, certainly unpredictable, and almost always challenging. While years of experience in the field and training ...

ING’s News Division recently conducted a study on the impact of social media on news and journalism and the results are quite astounding.
It’s important to note ...

NYFA: Can you tell us a little bit about yourself, your background, and what made you decide to get into broadcast journalism?
Suzane de Oliveira: I’m ...

There is hardly a month that goes by that someone doesn’t declare print journalism as ‘dead’, often using the medium to do so. While the ...

Far from being a special effect reserved for high-budget broadcasting, carefully-implemented chroma keys can help add a professional layer of polish to any production, both ...

US 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, ...

NYFA: 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 ...

 

NYFA: Can you tell us a bit about yourself, your background, and what first got you interested in broadcast journalism?
Sheri Jamkhou: I was born in ...

Ana Puod took what she learned at the New York Film Academy School of Broadcast Journalism and brought her new skills and knowledge back to ...

Upon 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 ...