Dana Rosengard, Ph.D.

07/15/2025

worth a read (as some of you spark up syllabi for a new school year that starts for some in just a matter of five or six weeks)---

07/05/2025

I've been teaching measures of news value for decades (note: I go with 7 ;) ). And I've been approving scripts for just as long, which is very often about tightening the writing and cutting TRT. Now I know it's "the most watched newscast in America," but I am curious what you all think about this kicker package from earlier this week about the retiring "stage manager" of "ABC World News Tonight." Not gonna' lie, I'm shaking my head. You?

David Muir gives a behind the scenes look at the person who takes the evening news show on and off the air every night – stage manager Michele Mayer.

06/06/2025

Ashley Berry, I am looking forward to meeting you next week in Missouri. Maybe you can offer me some teaching tips (while I help award scholarship dollars!?!) ;)

05/16/2025

For all my journalism friends, Clooney fans or not---

05/09/2025

IYKYK --- I had to share...

04/16/2025

Wow. Some of the statistics in this Boston Globe article about the numbers of international students studying here in America stopped me in my tracks.

The greatest trade deficit in the United States is not in sneakers, smartphones, and automobiles; it’s in undergraduate and graduate students.

04/09/2025

Discuss--- ;)

President Donald Trump's White House intends to challenge a judge's ruling lifting the restrictions it imposed on the Associated Press over the news agency's reference to the Gulf of Mexico in its coverage, the administration told the court on Wednesday.

03/31/2025

Apparently, this is where we are---

News outlets increasingly look to ordinary citizens to help cover news. This comes as there are fewer reporters and fewer applying for jobs.

03/05/2025

NOT much of a surprise at all, but now official. I don't hate it.

03/05/2025

Many congratulations, Dawn! I am happy for you for landing on your news shoes (How's that for word choice?!?!). Enjoy many a good breakfast after getting off work in the city and travel safely.

03/03/2025

worth a read ---

02/24/2025

This just in---