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What Is TheBackhaul.com?

TheBackhaul.com is the nation's premier website daily catalogueing the work of America's local broadcast journalists. Each weekday, our webcrawler scans the websites of more than 400 local television stations, compiles and emails the results to thousands of subscribers in America and 12 foreign countries. Click here for a recent sample of TheBackhaul.com's daily newsletter.

Who uses TheBackhaul.com?

While subscriptions are free to anyone, the core of TheBackhaul.com subscribers are national and local television news directors, producers, assignment editors, reporters and photographers each looking for story ideas to suppliment their daily news budget. In addition, TheBackhaul.com is read daily by public relations experts, used by educational institutions as a research and teaching tool and used by elected officials for help in identifying trends. TheBackhaul.com arrives before 9:00am EST, Monday-Friday.

Why a website?

While the strength of TheBackhaul.com is in its fresh, insightful daily newsletter, this website was created to further supplemement that resource. One week after publication, each TheBackhaul.com issue is added to this site, allowing everyone to search the nation's only catalogue of local television news reports.

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