Author: Mike Beaudet and John Wihbey
Introducing the Experimental Storytellers
Hello again from Northeastern University’s Reinventing Local TV News Project. It’s been a busy year since we released our research report, which identified new ways television newsrooms can work to grow their audience […]
Northeastern teams up with two leading local TV news organizations and Stanton Foundation for video news research project
BOSTON, MA – Monday, July 1, 2019 – Media researchers at Northeastern University School of Journalism in Boston, Mass., will partner with two leading local news stations, WLS-TV/Chicago and WCVB-TV/Boston, […]
Anchoring the 2020 Electorate: The Need for Quality Local TV News Storytelling
Originally published at RTDNA. Local TV news could help inform and enlighten the electorate in 2020 — and maybe even decide the election. We’re not kidding. We all know local […]
Breaking news!: We are unveiling findings from our national study on reinventing local TV News
After nearly two years of work, we are today unveiling the results of our national study of news consumers and our experiments in remixing local TV news segments. The results are fascinating, and […]
Remixing hard news in local TV: A possible recipe for growth
Hello again from Northeastern University’s Reinventing Local TV News Project. Our research is in the home stretch. We just received our data after surveying 600 viewers in six television markets […]
Local TV news is important. Seriously.
Hello again from Northeastern University’s Reinventing Local TV News Project. We’re entering an exciting phase as we begin experimenting with new methods for video news storytelling and searching for better […]
Reinventing local TV news and video storytelling: kicking off a new Northeastern research project
Shrinking audiences, sensational stories that don’t impact viewers, and more of the same old formula, repeated over and over again. In the coming years, it’s all a recipe for potential […]