Month: March 2011

Demo reel disasters

What are news directors really looking for when they go through demo reels? Jacqueline Ingles, a multi-platform reporter for KXAN in Austin, Texas, sat in on a recent screening session and emerged a little shell-shocked. I always thought it was a…

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Local TV news bounces back

After two grim years, the state of local television news is much improved, thank you. That’s the bottom line of the chapter I wrote for this year’s State of the News Media report from the Project for Excellence in Journalism,…

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Free multimedia resources

You’ve written a story for the Web or a post for a blog and you need to add an image or a related video. If you didn’t take a photo or shoot footage yourself, what are your options? The Internet…

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Why journalists should learn to love data

Journalists are notorious for hating anything to do with math. If we’d been any good with numbers, I often joke, we might have chosen a different career. But it’s essential for today’s journalists to get comfortable working with data, and…

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Getting freelance journalism jobs

So, you can’t find or don’t want a traditional journalism job?  Maybe you’ve kicked around the idea of getting into freelancing as a sideline?  If so, writer and editor Dana Neuts has some suggestions. Neuts has been freelancing full time in…

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