The single most important thing you can do to improve as a photojournalist is to edit your own work, says KSDK-TV’s Eric Voss. “Learn from your mistakes and missed opportunities,” he wrote in the NPPA’s News Photographer magazine. “You will…
At a recent workshop, a reporter complained that she got her assignments too late to do anything creative with them. She worked night side at her TV station and covered a lot of meetings. The assignment desk would tell her…
KARE-TV’s Joe Fryer knows a little something about good writing. He’s won three national Edward R. Murrow awards and five regional Emmys. Joe was one of my fellow instructors at this year’s NPPF Airborne TV Seminar in Rochester, N.Y., and…
Talk about how journalism jobs are changing! The Florida Times-Union is planning a daily news segment on its Web site, jacksonville.com, and is advertising for a video blogger, “someone who can report the news with a little attitude and a…
What goes on off camera during a local newscast can be perfectly hilarious. Unfortunately, most stations don’t let us in on the fun. But anchor Derek McGinty at WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C., lifted the curtain recently on his blog “What…
Social networking sites now host billions of pictures and comments, a few of which might be relevant in covering a news story. Can the media use them? In the October 2007 NPPA News Photographer magazine, Brian McDermott reports that different…
There’s no doubt that your approach to a story may change in the process of reporting it, but do you need to let the people you’re covering know that, too? For me, this question was raised by a little brouhaha involving a student…
Do three simple things and your online video will look better, says videographer Peter Ralph on his Shooting by Numbers blog. 1. Keep your lens clean. This is especially important if you are shooting hand-held, Ralph says, because you’ll be…
