news cutbacks

Being closer to the end than the beginning of my own very rewarding media career, I can sympathize with the thousands of younger aspiring journalists who are faced with a rapidly deteriorating job market that may not give them the chance to get in on the ground floor of such an exciting industry.

And seasoned veterans are not being spared from the economic tsunami washing over the media business. Long time local TV and radio news anchors and reporters are being unceremoniously shown the door in cities all across the country. Magazines and newspapers are also in free fall, with huge layoffs in editorial, operational and marketing divisions at some of the country’s biggest publications.  read more »

Remember when the main goal of network TV news divisions was to fight to make sure they broke the big story before the competition? Now it seems they are falling all over each other to make sure you see that big story, over and over again.

When I started out in local television news, it was considered heresy to run the same story twice. If you could not find enough stories to fill a newscast you just weren’t good enough. How times and budgets have changed.  read more »