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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The Future of News is NOT TikTok, It’s Netflix
December 18, 2024
Character-driven journalism is not new to newspapers, though it once was. It was once called The New Journalism in the 1960s — see Truman Capote or Tom Wolfe. Today it is industry standard. Why not take the Sopranos or Breaking Bad formula and marry it to TV journalism? (How many interviews have you seen in The Sopranos? How many Man on the Street soundbites have you seen in Breaking Bad?)
Good News is actually Good News
October 14, 2024
In a recent study by The Reuters Institute, 40% of Americans no longer watch or read the news at all. They find it too depressing. All doom and gloom.
The Future of News: TikTok or Netflix
September 09, 2024
There is a great deal of concern, well placed, that few people under the age of 30 watch TV news. Viewership of TV news in general has fallen off, so naturally, TV executives across the boards are searching for a solution. How to appeal to a demographic that spends most of their time on social media?