In defense of TV reporters

Posted on January 29th, 2009 by Deborah Potter

You know the public image of TV news reporters, right?  They’re unethical, lazy and overpaid. Not.
In this brilliant blog post, former Atlanta TV reporter Doug Richards  debunks  those myths, and several more–like this one:
They can tell you what’s really going on. Well, yes.  But chances are they’ve put almost everything they know into a [...]

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When news finds you

Posted on January 29th, 2009 by Deborah Potter

Sometimes, the most amazing stories just fall into your lap. NJ Burkett, a reporter at WABC-TV in New York, says a viewer phone call this week led him to this story about a trail of personal information found in the street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
I learned about the story when Burkett tweeted [...]

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