Newsroom Notes
How do you run a newsroom through these unusual times?
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Newsroom Notes: Covering pandemic, protests provides three valuable reminders
October 29, 2020
I know it’s been a while. Three months, 30,000 new and returning students and we’re on the verge of the biggest pizza-night in local television. If you don’t recognize that line, you haven’t worked Election Night.KOMU News is the nation’s only teaching laboratory inside a commercial, network-affiliated TV station. The challenges are no different from other newsrooms—just layered on top of the challenges facing the next generation of journalists. We’re providing a first-hand view (and maybe a little advice) from an industry veteran who agreed to lead the KOMU Newsroom during a faculty search process—just as the COVID-19 crisis began unfolding.
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Newsroom Notes
What does Ulysses Grant have to do with being a newsroom leader? Read on.
Newsroom Notes: Leading through uncertainty
July 9, 2020 -
Newsroom Notes
When it comes to the global pandemic we find ourselves in, are you tired of hearing the quote attributed to Winston Churchill? “Never waste a good crisis.”
Newsroom Notes: The more things change, the more they stay the same?
May 19, 2020 -
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Gov. Mike Parson began what he called a daily news briefing a few weeks ago. Broadcast organizations in Missouri immediately offered to help distribute the daily offerings, but Parson insisted on using only Facebook.
Newsroom Notes: Meet your new anchorman. He’s also your governor
April 14, 2020 -
Newsroom Notes
It’s Friday morning and we are closing in on our first week of “new normal” at KOMU. I am blessed that my “new normal” is only disrupting my intended trips home.
Newsroom Notes: The New Normal
March 27, 2020 -
Newsroom Notes
How do you run a newsroom through these unusual times? We’re providing a first-hand view from an industry veteran who agreed to lead the KOMU newsroom during a faculty search process—just as the Covid-19 crisis began unfolding.
Newsroom Notes: A unique view at a unique time
March 23, 2020
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