AI Will Change Everything About Local TV News
Local television has three immediate problems that must be solved if our industry is to have a future: a people problem, a product problem and a profit problem.
Looking at these issues together, we find a common root. Television news has become stagnant. Our days of true innovation are long past. Instead, we have understaffed newsrooms struggling to produce enough product to fill the myriad newscasts that are now the hallmark of local television. Sadly, most of that product has become standardized and predictable.
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