A half-hour NBC fall season primetime preview special will air as a promotion across all NBC Universal properties, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In addition to NBC, the special will appear on the cable networks USA, Bravo and Syfy, on the network’s Web site and on 11,000…
Watching TV is the worst kind of inactivity for children, according to Time magazine. Researchers in America and Spain collaborated on the study of 111 children ages 3 to 8 and discovered that more than using a computer or any…
Google-owned YouTube has signed up nearly 200 news providers for its News Near You feature, which figures out a user’s location and suggests relevant video, a service which could eventually become a rival to local newscasts, the New York Times…
Welcome to the first issue of NewsPro, a publication devoted to the needs and interests of news professionals. Whatever your capacity in the field of journalism, our goal is to tell you things you need to know — and to…
By Elizabeth Jensen When the Society of Professional Journalists was founded as a journalistic fraternity at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., in 1909, few could have imagined the upheavals that now roil the profession. But as it celebrates its 100th…
By Elizabeth Jensen He never worked as a professional journalist, but Terry Harper, the executive director of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, knew how to write laugh-out-loud prose that could also bring a reader…
By Hillary Atkin For television and radio stations and newspapers across the country, adjunct Web sites are an essential tool in reaching their target audiences and extending their brands across cyberspace. Creating the most relevant site can be a challenge,…
By Daisy Whitney It’s nice when someone else can help you do your job, especially if they’ll work for free. Audience submissions are coming into their own as a resource for news networks, local stations and newspapers, which are increasingly…