Mike Beaudet

Introducing the Experimental Storytellers

Hello again from Northeastern University’s Reinventing Local TV News Project. It’s been a busy year since we released our research report, which identified new ways television newsrooms can work to grow their...

Northeastern teams up with two leading local TV news organizations and Stanton Foundation for video news research project

BOSTON, MA – Monday, July 1, 2019 – Media researchers at Northeastern University School of Journalism in Boston, Mass., will partner with two leading local news stations, WLS-TV/Chicago and WCVB-TV/Boston, along...

Anchoring the 2020 Electorate: The Need for Quality Local TV News Storytelling

Originally published at RTDNA. Local TV news could help inform and enlighten the electorate in 2020 — and maybe even decide the election. We’re not kidding. We all know local television news has its critics — even...

Remixing hard news in local TV: A possible recipe for growth

Hello again from Northeastern University’s Reinventing Local TV News Project. Our research is in the home stretch. We just received our data after surveying 600 viewers in six television markets across the country....

Local TV news is important. Seriously.

Hello again from Northeastern University’s Reinventing Local TV News Project. We’re entering an exciting phase as we begin experimenting with new methods for video news storytelling and searching for better ways to...

Reinventing local TV news and video storytelling: kicking off a new Northeastern research project

Shrinking audiences, sensational stories that don’t impact viewers, and more of the same old formula, repeated over and over again. In the coming years, it’s all a recipe for potential decline for the hundreds of local TV news stations that broadcast to communities across the country. Newspapers have already seen the profound effects of digital disruption, and although TV news stations still turn a profit in many markets, those...

Breaking news!: We are unveiling findings from our national study on reinventing local TV News

After nearly two years of work, we are today unveiling the results of our national study of news consumers and our experiments in remixing local TV news segments. The results are fascinating, and we think there are...