TV reporters will be among the first to admit they aren’t rocket scientists. With their Journalism degrees and their slightly-above-average IQs, they succeed because they are just smart enough to look under rocks, grasp the obvious, write clean copy and produce ninety seconds of television. The good ones are quick studies, with a broad smattering [...]
Archive for July, 2008
29 Jul
A diversion…
Thanks, Matt, for bringing the latest Jibjab piece to our attention. It has nothing to do with local news. If you don’t like it, LAF will refund your wasted time. A cleaner copy is here.
29 Jul
WXIA’s new news director
The Buffalo News reports today that WXIA has hired Ellen Crooke as its new news director. Crooke has been VP of news at WGRZ Buffalo. The News describes Crooke as “the architect of the revival” of WGRZ’s news. Crooke won’t show up at WXIA until September. WXIA reporter Julie Wolfe previously worked with Crooke at [...]
29 Jul
Out of the shadow, into the darkness
“It’ll all be better in the new building” is a funny-only-once line doubtless uttered countless times around WXIA of late. Last weekend, it seems WXIA actually made the transition away from 1611 Peachtree to “the Hill,” the spot occupied by WATL off Monroe Drive. No doubt, staffers are comforted by the fact that both locations [...]
28 Jul
AJC 2.0
As traumatic as it’s been for the AJC in the last 18 months— including a sizable, ongoing round of staff reductions and layoffs— it seems there’s more to come. The AJC has been targeting February 2009 as the launch of what it calls AJC 2.0. The date coincides with the use of a new printing [...]
25 Jul
“Hero”
Let’s say you’re in the US Army. Let’s say you’re back from a tour of duty in Iraq. Maybe it’s your second or third. You settle in for a little TV news. You switch on WXIA at 11pm Thursday. You see a report by Julie Wolfe about an injured soldier. Within the story, the reporter [...]
23 Jul
Not that we’re counting, but…
Drawn, for some unknown reason, to WGCL’s 4pm news Wednesday, we can draw one conclusion: We had to wait 35 minutes to see the best story in the show. Other observations, by the numbers: Four. The number of trees shown toppled in a mercifully quick anchor v/o recapping Tuesday’s storms. 4:03pm. The first appearance by [...]
21 Jul
Traffic wreck coverage kills WTOC reporter
Steven Shoob worked the overnight shift at WTOC in Savannah. Shoob had been employed there twenty years. He covered news in the field overnight. Then he reported to the newsroom and produced and anchored local cut-in segments that appeared during the national morning newscasts. He wore many hats; he held the title of managing editor. [...]
21 Jul
Oh, wait. I don’t have a PhD. Oops.
What a great way to end a lousy week at the AJC. Saturday’s AJC piece about Grady interim CEO Pam Stephenson was Exhibit A in why this newspaper is worth saving, and why it’s still the most relevant news outlet in town. The article by Heather Vogell hilariously chronicled Stephenson’s evasions against mounting evidence that [...]
18 Jul
Less isn’t more at the AJC
While traveling this week, we managed to overlook the grim round of staff reductions announced at the AJC. Mostly Media did a nice job of covering it Wednesday. And the AJC itself, in an article written by Ken Foskett and Scott Thurston, gave the in-house madness as detached an analysis as one could ask. Advertising revenue [...]
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