It’s not easy to prepare for and conduct a TV interview if you’re working alone as a “backpack journalist.” Steve Mort should know. He reports, shoots and edits for Feature Story News, and says interviews are one of the most…
VJ interviewing tips
Month: May 2009
J-school requires iPhone
Why would the University of Missouri’s well-regarded journalism school make an iPhone or iPod Touch a requirement for all incoming students? My first guess was that Mizzou was making a new commitment to multimedia journalism and requiring an iPhone so…
Posting government data
We live in a time when the personal is no longer private, and that doesn’t just apply to Facebook and Twitter feeds. Government databases that journalists use in their stories include a ton of personal information, too. But just because…
Is future of news hyperlocal?
The folks behind voiceofsandiego.org, an online news source run as a nonprofit, firmly believe that they way they’ll succeed is by staying focused entirely on San Diego. Could their site and other “hyperlocal” Internet outlets fill the void caused by failing…
Press freedom and the Web
Here’s an Internet irony: the Web has made it possible for almost anyone to be a journalist but it’s also made the world more dangerous for anyone practising journalism. For the first time, according to the Committee to Project Journalists,…
Lessons from the movies
There are some universal truths about good journalism: It’s hard work and it’s vitally important in a democratic society. But it also can be hard to pigeonhole what it takes to produce good journalism, and that’s not a recent development.…