Network news is being outsourced, more than you knew.
Read here about how ABC News is “transforming” itself through cuts and reorganization. At least they didn’t call it “right-sizing.”
(And bear in mind that ABC News had a larger staff than NBC News and MSNBC combined…)
But how do you do the job with fewer people? You outsource.
Check out Good Morning America’s coverage of tornadoes and storms in Arkansas.
I apologize if the image isn’t clear, it’s not always easy to shoot an old-style curved television surface.
But just about everything you need to know about the future of network news is in this piece.
Particularly in the little white letters across the top.
The ones indicating the source of this interview.
Five years ago, this would have been inconceivable, that a television network would run video shot by a local newspaper.
But the key elements for this piece came from many sources outside of the ABC editorial umbrella.
So, what are your predictions for what is to come for network news?
Did you ever see the BBC series “Max Headroom”? Positively dystopian. Most of it is now true.
Yes, I am quite familiar with the show, when it ran on ABC.
The one-man-band concept had a different feel there, but the thing they got right was the reliance on personality-driven “news product.”