Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- We Interrupt This Newscast
- 1 A Prologue: What This Book Is For
- 2 The Knowledge Base
- 3 “I-Teams” and “Eye Candy”: The Reality of Local TV News
- 4 The Myths That Dominate Local TV News: The X-Structure and the Fallacy of the Hook-and-Hold Method of TV News
- 5 The Magic Formula: How to Make TV That Viewers Will Watch
- 6 Steps to Better Coverage
- 7 Putting It All into Action: Techniques for Changing Newsroom Cultures
- 8 The Road Ahead: The Future of Local TV News
- Appendix A Design Team Members
- Appendix B Quality Grading Criteria and Value Codes
- Appendix C Content Analysis Intercoder Reliability Analyses
- Appendix D Sample of Local TV News Stations
- Appendix E 2005 Follow-up Study
- Notes
- References
- Index
Appendix A - Design Team Members
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- We Interrupt This Newscast
- 1 A Prologue: What This Book Is For
- 2 The Knowledge Base
- 3 “I-Teams” and “Eye Candy”: The Reality of Local TV News
- 4 The Myths That Dominate Local TV News: The X-Structure and the Fallacy of the Hook-and-Hold Method of TV News
- 5 The Magic Formula: How to Make TV That Viewers Will Watch
- 6 Steps to Better Coverage
- 7 Putting It All into Action: Techniques for Changing Newsroom Cultures
- 8 The Road Ahead: The Future of Local TV News
- Appendix A Design Team Members
- Appendix B Quality Grading Criteria and Value Codes
- Appendix C Content Analysis Intercoder Reliability Analyses
- Appendix D Sample of Local TV News Stations
- Appendix E 2005 Follow-up Study
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
The following members of the Design Team participated in the 1997 meeting. They are listed with their positions at that time followed by their affiliation as of 2005.
John Corporon, retired Tribune company news executive; board of governors, Overseas Press Club.
Randy Covington, news director, WIS, Columbia, South Carolina; instructor, University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Alice Main, executive producer, WLS, Chicago; author.
Paula Pendarvis, director of news and local programming, WGNO TV, New Orleans.
Gordon Peterson, principal anchor, WUSA TV, Washington, D.C.
Jose Rios, vice president of news, KTTV, Los Angeles.
Jim Snyder, retired Post-Newsweek news executive; deceased.
Gary Wordlaw, vice president of news, WJLA TV, Washington, D.C.; vice president and general manager, KSTW TV, Seattle.
Other members of the Design Team who were not present at the New Orleans meeting:
John Cardenas, news director, KPHO TV, Phoenix; news director, WBNS, Columbus, Ohio.
Marty Haag, senior vice president of broadcast news, Belo Corp.; executive in residence, Division of Journalism, Southern Methodist University.
Natalie Jacobson, principal anchor, WCVB TV, Boston.
Dan Rosenheim, news director, KRON TV, San Francisco; news director, KPIX TV, San Francisco.
Kathy Williams, news director, WKYC TV, Cleveland; news director, KRIV, Houston.
Participation in the Design Team does not imply agreement or endorsement of the conclusions in this book. Design Team members help develop the criteria; they did not participate in the analysis of the data for the book.
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- We Interrupt This NewscastHow to Improve Local News and Win Ratings, Too, pp. 191 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007