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IN THE NEWS May 2008

Are Newspapers Better at Online Video than TV Stations?

By David F. Carr -- Broadcasting and Cable, 5/7/2008

As a former TV newsman who has now turned his attention to media convergence on the Web, Randy Covington believes that TV news is asleep at the switch.

“The TV stations don't see the train that's about to run over them,” says Covington, who now teaches at the University of South Carolina and serves as director of the IFRA Newsplex, a new media convergence study and training center. “If you look around the newspaper world today, I'm seeing innovation that I'm not seeing in broadcasting,” Covington says.

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