MediaReview

Nashville Scene: "Nashville's third-rated local news station, WKRN-Channel 2, is the first newsroom in the country to move to a comprehensive 'VJ' model, wherein the TV news staff is told, as Rosenblum puts it, 'to forget everything you know or think you know about television because everything you know is wrong.' Videographers who were once responsible only for shooting film are now charged with reporting stories, often even nuanced public policy news that they've never before needed to understand in any sophisticated way. Conversely, reporters who have never shot film in their lives are given cameras and laptops and trained to shoot as well as report, edit their own packages, etc. It turns conventional TV newscasting on its head. "