The BIG 50: A list of quick hitter content ideas that your staff can use to drive traffic to your website
This year for the first time I have too many kids. Yep, you read that right. I have too many
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Tips
A scriptwriting activity that sticks with students
Scriptwriting can be a hard sell to students who like to drop their interviews on a timeline and then begin
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Getting sequences with the five-shot method
Many new-to-video-journalism folks have encountered the same problem when they’ve logged and uploaded all their interviews and clips: not enough
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Readers don’t leave Instagram. Here’s how news organizations are working with that
Sorry, but no one is clicking that “link in bio” on your Instagram account.
Don’t worry, though; it’s not you. Turns out, Instagram makes it pretty hard for creators to link out to their content elsewhere, which is why more and more news organizations are bringing their stories directly to the platform.
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Here’s a nice tutorial on how to use Timeline JS
Interactive elements are always great to add to online posts. We’ve talked before here about using Timeline JS and the
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5 Great Tips For Announcers To Close Out A Live Broadcast
The other day I was listening to a Lindenwood University football game on the radio. A former student of mine
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Instagram Now Allows All Users To Use Links in Stories
In case you missed the news last week, all users can now use links in their stories. This is welcome
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60 Second Docs a great source of inspiration
Indigenous Media’s 60 Second Docs channel provides inspiration for non-fiction video storytellers.
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Getting info from teaching staff for daily announcements
First, let me start by saying that I KNOW daily broadcast shows are time-consuming. They often aren’t even possible, depending
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