Of all the newsroom jobs, producing newscasts would seem to be one of the toughest to do from a kitchen table, but Wednesday, for the first time, WSMV Nashville producer Jules Marcantonio did just that. “It went fine, on both ends,” Marcantonio said, “from both my perspective and the station’s.”
As every news director knows, recruiting strong producers is a chronic challenge for local newsrooms. Gray Television is trying two experiments to address this critical shortage, forging partnerships with two Southern universities.
