The Boston Globe and WBZ-TV are unveiling a collaboration Monday in which the two news organizations will swap content and for the first time regularly broadcast videos produced by the newspaper’s staff on a major market television station.
Under the arrangement, WBZ will air select Globe videos and footage shot by Globe journalists at breaking news events. Some of the station’s telecasts will feature interviews with Globe reporters and previews of notable articles that will appear in the next edition of the newspaper, such as reports by the Spotlight investigative team.
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This is wonderful "original reporting." The quotes in this story are the same - word for word - as those that appear in a full-page advertisement in the main section of the newspaper. How lazy can a reporter get?!?!?
Reads like a press release. But is media reporting about itself really "news"?
It makes good business sense for the two media outlets to share resources. It would be even easier if the Globe and WBZ-TV were owned by the same company.
This may be good for news consumers (the viewing audience) and advertisers... But one has to wonder about the journalists and their technical support people at WBZ. . . Street reporters, camera and sound folks have been employed by the now CBS outlet for generations with the Boston Globe serving merely as a frequently cited source for local news stories rewritten by WBZ editors and then read over the radio and tv air by WBZ staff. . . I am not a union fan, but this story makes me wonder about the unionized employees at WBZ. . . Will they be laid off or faced reduced work hours? And where will Glob reporters get the training they need to both handle a camera/sound package as well as taking notes for stories intended for both broadcast and print? Is the New York Times the stickey wicket in the background that is pushing this merger of two different news technologies?
Globe staff have their areas of expertise (written word). WBZ staff surely are much better at preparing audio and video packages. The idea should be to leverage the combined knowledge of both staffs as opposed to cutting union jobs.
They definitely chose an also-ran TV news operation, although WBZ is not quite as pathetic as WHDH. WBZ actually does "news" stories about the latest happenings on their own primetime shows, such as "Survivor." One of their reporter/anchors, Jonathan Elias, is so lightweight that he probably has to wear lead boots as he makes some cute remark or ends a story with a gratuitous editorial comment.
Does this mean that every story in the Globe will have to begin with " Who what when where or why" the way BZ begins every teaser intro? Nobody over there knows how to write an English sentence...this should be an interesting collaboration.