This document discusses the past, present, and future of broadcast journalism. In the past, broadcast news coverage was shaped by major events like the assassination of JFK and Watergate hearings, which established news as a "soap opera." Currently, TV news focuses on ratings and is driven by speculation due to the demand for immediate information. In the future, technologies like GoPros and drones may decentralize news gathering and change how the public expects coverage by allowing citizen journalists to capture events firsthand.

1. BROADCAST
JOURNALISM
The Past, Present, & Future of Broadcast News Coverage

2. News Coverage: PAST
•“Breaking the News”: Documentary
about the news coverage of the
assassination of JFK
•In many ways, the birthplace of how we
get news today; up-to-minute coverage
enabled by technology and driven by the
public’s thirst for information

3. News Coverage: PAST
•Watergate Hearings – 1973:
•News as “Soap Opera”
•1995:TheTV coverage of and the
”Media Circus” surrounding O.J.
Simpson can be seen the same way
– news as “soap opera” – “what’s
going to happen next?”

4. News Coverage: PAST
•TV becomes “KING”
•24-Hour Coverage
•First collective and immediate
experience for the country
•The demand for information
NOW inevitably leads to errors

5. News Coverage: PAST
•Less chance for journalists to
reflect or assess
•Birth of speculative/conjecture
“NEWS”
•Trials and Crime Coverage as
“Soap Opera”/Entertainment

6. News Coverage: PRESENT
•The Daily Show on News Coverage of
Flight 370
•Why do you think this is the way it is?
•What kind of news coverage shouldTV
journalism be providing the public?Why
don’t they?
•TV News = Driven by Ratings &
Advertising

7. News Coverage: FUTURE
•The GoPro Revolution
•Drones Over America
•How might GoPro/drone technology
change news coverage of the future?
•How might GoPro/drone technology
change how the public expects the news
will be covered?

8. News Coverage: FUTURE
•VICE:The future of journalism
•How would the coverage of JFK’s
assassination, theWatergate
hearings, and the O.J. Simpson
story been different if they
happened today?

9. LOOKING AHEAD
• TV NEWS STORY FORMS
• WRITING, EDITING, AND DELIVERING BROADCAST
NEWS
ATTENDANCE ISVITAL –THERE SIMPLY IS NO
OPPORTUNITYTO MAKE UP IN-CLASS WORK AND OUR
SCHEDULE IS SUBJECTTO CHANGE!