Book Review – TV News Anchors and Journalistic Tradition: How Journalists Adapt to Technology

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TV News Anchors and Journalistic Tradition: How Journalists Adapt to Technology. Kimberly Meltzer. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2010. 215 pp.

Their audience may be declining—and old enough that most advertisers avoid appearing on their programs—but we can’t seem to read enough about television network evening news anchor people. Over the years, they have been subject to their own shelf of analytic studies, let alone show-business gossip.

Comes now Kimberly Meltzer, a visiting professor at Georgetown University, with a revision of her Annenberg School (Pennsylvania) dissertation to add to the accumulation.

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Foreign News Coverage Could Break TV News Budgets

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With revolutions throughout the world and natural disasters in places like Japan, TV news budgets are quickly spending money to cover everything. A report came out recently showing how the foreign coverage may break the bank this year (read the article here).

One TV executive said that to send a crew and reporter oversees can cost tens of thousands of dollars each week. With so much breaking news overseas so far this year, there may be much more money to be spent to report the news in 2011. Read the article