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Book World: Tales of egos, ulcers and misbehavior at 60 Minutes
Susan Benkelman, The Washington Post
Feb. 19, 2021
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Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes
By Ira Rosen
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Television news producers operate outside the spotlight, figuring out story angles, sweating the details and persuading reluctant sources to go on camera. They also manage impossibly difficult personalities, get blamed for segments that go off the rails and generally don t get credit for things that go right.
Ira Rosen lasted 40 years in this environment, some of that time spent as a producer for the legendary Mike Wallace, who in Rosen s telling was as intimidating behind the scenes as he was on camera, bullying producers until they were literally sick. The tension of the job led other producers to develop heart disease or cancer at an early age, Rosen writes in his memoir, Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes. One producer named his ulcers Myron, Wallace s
What makes for robust local news provision? Looking at the structural correlates of local news coverage for an entire U.S. state, and mapping local news using a new method Cover image via Canva: mdegrood via Getty Images
Executive summary
The findings below are simplified for the purpose of clarity; please see the full paper for definitions and variable operationalization.
This research is part of a multi-phase, multi-year effort to understand local news provision ― in detail yet at scale. The state of New Jersey acts as both laboratory and pilot for testing and implementing a new method for evaluating local journalism; namely, rather than mapping by where an outlet’s newsroom is based, news provision is mapped by coverage area, where a news outlet is counted in each municipality it says it covers (note that coverage area is self-reported in this phase of the project). News provision is then correlated to various structural characteri
The Scope, a social-justice website published by our School of Journalism, has unveiled a news-by-text pilot program so that Boston residents can receive information about testing sites, food pantries and other news related to the pandemic. The project is being led by Lex Weaver, one of our graduate students. The initiative got a mention today…
In Laconia, New Hampshire, publishing a letter from someone who denied that the Holocaust took place ended up leading to something positive a long-term exercise in engaging the community around the paper's opinion journalism. The letter, according to an essay at the American Press Institute's website by Julie Hart, The Laconia Daily Sun's digital…