Chris Cillizza’s contribution to YouTube’s Reporters’ Center is a video he calls “How To Not Sound Like An Idiot on TV,” but which I’d rename “How To Get (Re)Booked on Cable.” Why? For one, The Washington Post’s Cillizza advises reporters who aspire to talk shop on TV to “have fun” or else “people are going to tune out.” As an example, Cillizza demonstrates how one might make a presidential election sound “like a boxing match, the kind of thing you want to watch.” Which isn’t as much about not sounding like an idiot on TV (never mind about informing TV viewers) as it is about securing another Hardball booking. (Also, Cillizza’s first “lesson” is: “talk about what you know about,” a rule which is, of course, violated hourly by cable’s regular talking heads).
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Social media in smaller markets - How three social media managers deal with smaller markets and more local coverage.
A rally for laid-off Sun-Times photogs - A protest Thursday morning drew about 150 picketers to the newspaper’s headquarters
Reporting, or illegal hacking - Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Exchange Watch: California Dreaming - Low healthcare premiums on the West Coast were trumpeted as a big, good-news Obamacare story. But: “Compared to what?”
Rolling Stone remembers Michael Hastings, dead at 33
The bold journalist died in a car accident in Los Angeles
On the journalistic value of being “a dick”
Buzzfeed’s statement on the death of its reporter
The disappearance of ‘Sports of the Times’
CJR’s panel discussion on coverage of gay marriage
On the eve of two related SCOTUS decisions, how should journalists be covering the issue?
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
