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While more women are taking on leadership roles in radio and TV, fewer people of color are working in radio and TV is nowhere near representative.
Stations in our sample posted an an average of just over 50 percent local content, using an an extremely generous threshold for “local” content.
“Storytelling is a differentiator. I wish we did more of it on the air, but since we don’t, we’re doing it in digital.
The quest for scale, driven by the distribution power of a few enormous technology platforms, is killing the business case for local news. Will anything take its place?
CNNgo is the network’s attempt to break the linear model for broadcast television.
“The news media have two bottom lines. One’s the fiscal bottom line — they have to make money to stay in business. The other one’s the civic bottom line.” Caroline O'Donovan
“It certainly takes courage to speak — but it takes a different kind of courage to be silent, to listen, to trust, and speak when the time is right.”