EmailThe remarkably talented Nikki Kay is a graduate of one of our bootcamps.
She's also the sports reporter for Spectrum News 1 Los Angeles.
Last week, she went to Dodger Stadium for Opening Day, and she brought along her iPhone - as usual.
Everyone at Spectrum News 1 shoots with an iPhone.
Lots of times, particulary in the time of Covid, we are asked, how do you do a personal story if there is no one there?
Nikki brillianttly answers the question.
She also is bringing exactly the kind of personal authorship we hope to engender by moving from conventional local TV news to an entirely new model.
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No News Today — or tomorrow for that matter.
March 26, 2024
For most of human history, people lived in a world without news. The concept simply did not exist. The idea of news is really a 19th-century phenomenon, driven first by newspapers, and then by electronic media which brought us radio, then TV and now the web. Now, it seems, we are headed back to a world without news. Not because the technology is not there, but rather because, increasingly, people are no longer interested in news, at least in the way it is packaged now.
What TV News Could Be
February 26, 2024
When television was invented in the 1930s, no one knew what TV news was supposed to look like. The medium had never existed before, and so, like Gutenberg half a millennium, prior, the first creators of TV news had to fall back on a medium with which they were familiar, and that was radio.
What Is News? What Should it Be?
February 20, 2024
Maybe scary stories drive ratings… or maybe they don’t.