What is a recently laid off journalist to do? You need to make a living but you’ve lost your job. Freelancing is one option but the transition isn’t easy, says Michelle Goodman, who’s been a full time freelancer since 1992. She’s posted some terrific advice on how to survive your first year as a freelancer. [...]
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It’s always good to be reminded that there are ethical lines in journalism that shouldn’t be crossed. One of them is staging–telling people what to do or asking them to repeat what they’ve done so you can get it on camera. As Tracy Boyer puts it at Innovative Interactivity: Allowing videographers to stage scenes, situations [...]
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What can you say in 140 characters? The Media is Hirin’ Twitter feed is collecting short text resumes from journalists looking for jobs. Among my favorites so far: Will Work for Milk Duds: Nationally known film critic Larry Ratliff looking for new gig. Top that! Send yours by email, and be sure to check the [...]
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Crime reporting is a staple of local news, so it’s important for journalists to provide context for their stories. At the 4th Annual Guggenheim Conference on Crime in Society, dozens of criminal justice reporters, criminologists and representatives of law enforcement gathered to talk about new research, policies and trends affecting criminal justice and the coverage [...]
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In TV news, natural sound is the other part of every picture–even if the sound is silence. You have to capture it by getting a mic close enough to pick up good quality ambient sound. Then you have to use it, up full or under narration and sound bites. It’s important, because while video can [...]
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The question, posted on the international journalists’ network IJNet, drew me up short. Wouldn’t carrying a weapon jeopardize a journalist’s neutral status? Couldn’t it put them more at risk, especially in a war zone where a gun could make them appear to be combatants? So why even ask the question? Here’s why: Following the recent [...]
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The digital development director at WUSA-TV in Washington, DC, doesn’t just manage the station’s Web site. Patrick O’Brien is also in charge of five local microsites focused on everything from young moms to entertainment to high school sports. So what does he really do? Here’s one specific way that O’Brien uses Twitter: as a kind [...]
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How can a news organization make real money online? The answer may be the key to survival for many mainstream news outlets, but nobody’s really found the magic formula yet. Most sites depend on advertising, which does bring in revenue but not enough to support a newsroom. The Wall Street Journal is the only major [...]
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Everybody likes lists, right? Travis Fox of the Washington Post shared his “10 golden rules” for video journalists at a recent workshop at the University of Miami on creating video narratives. [Thanks to Chrys Wu for sharing this, as well as another great post, "How to tell a Multimedia Story," that focuses on audio.] Golden [...]
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Tired of all the “print is dead” headlines, a group of newspaper executives is fighting back. The Newspaper Project, launched today, will counter what organizers call “the misrepresentation of newspapers and their continuing importance to the public, to the marketplace and to democracy.” The group is running print and online ads promoting the view that [...]
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