Local News 2012: Elections, Storms, Horror

Once again, a wide range of breaking news stories kept local television news departments busy at home as well as sending them across the country and around the world, in some cases. Other developments this past year included an encouraging increase in jobs and the amount of news being produced. Some experiments didn’t work out and while a survey listed broadcast news among the worst jobs, a growing number of station GMs are coming from news departments. This is the first part of TVNewsCheck’s annual look back at the year.