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-11- RADIO-TV COUNCIL REPORT SUMMARY Schools of journalism with sound radio news departments should give serious con¬ sideration to offering basic training in television news. If they can find competent, well-trained instructors, they can "set up shop" for TV news training on small invest¬ ment. These are conclusions of a study recently completed bynthe Council on Radio- Television Journalism under the direction of Professor Mitchell V. Charnley of the University of Minnesota School of J ournalism. Though the Council sees no immediate expansion of demand for TV-trained newsmen, it expects eventual opportunities to be "fairly heavy." But it says that TV is going to select its new workers only after scrupulous screening. The Council conducted the study last spring, with the participation of its twelve industry and teacher members and the counsel of two experienced TV newsmen: Spencer Allen of WON Chicago, who has been teaching a TV news course at Northwestern University for several years; and James Byron of WBAP Fort Worth, tliose operations won for his station last year's National Association of Radio News Directors top TV award. The report arrives at four major conclusions: 1. Schools of journalism with good radio news departments ought to offer at least ihtroductory work in TV news. Fundamental education in news gathering, _ writing, editing and administration lies at the base of any such training (one opinion calls it "the most important contribution'/ the schools can make). In most cases the schools should not concern themselves with studio camera operation, production direction and the like. But use of the news camera, the fundamentals of TV news writing and editing, editing of news film and other such instruction can successfully be offered in the classroom laboratory. 2. There is no adequate supply of well-trained teachers. The teachers 1 intern¬ ship plan as operated for six years by the Council in radio news is a sound means of helping to meeting the shortage; but the number of TV stations with sound news operations is at present too small to give an internship program broad effectiveness. A start has been made on such a program, however, and • the Council plans to extend it as rapidly as possible. 3. .Expensive equipment is not necessary for the kind of training most schools should offer. Students should be given experience in the techniques of hand¬ ling and editing film, counting and slugging it, and writing copy for it. Training with both silent and sound film should be included# Cooperation with local stations in offering practical experience is valuable when it can be arranged; but the number of opportunities is at present extreme¬ ly limited. U# There will be no immediate expansion of opportunity in TV news jobs, but the long-range prospect is for considerable development. Both the coming increase in the number of stations and the extension of local TV news operations (sim¬ ilar to the extension of radio news operations in the last fifteen years) will expand the demand for well-trained workers. Women should be "as successful in TV news as they have been in newspaper and radio work"; they can do film edit¬ ing and other specialized types of TV work with special skill.