Posted on March 3rd, 2011 by Deborah Potter
The problem with many news stories is that they’re not really stories at all. They’re a jumble of facts, often in no apparent logical order. What stories need, as we note in the book, is a focus and structure: beginning, middle and end. That sounds simple enough, but when you’ve gathered a ton of material [...]
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Posted on December 23rd, 2010 by Deb Wenger
Two pieces of news should give TV executives pause and remind young journalists that video is a cross-platform skill, so be sure you know how to work with it. First, a survey from TubeMogul indicates that newspaper websites have now surpassed TV sites when it comes to total number of minutes people spend viewing online video. For [...]
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Posted on November 11th, 2010 by Deborah Potter
Good news! The National Press Photographers Association is relaunching its student contest with a category for multimedia and a simplified way to enter online. Student members of NPPA can submit video, audio slideshows, projects or photos for the quarterly contest. You can enter work done during an internship and the work does not need to [...]
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Posted on October 5th, 2010 by Deborah Potter
A good editor can make something out of almost nothing. Boring video? Pick up the pace in the edit and the viewer may not even notice how dull the shots are. A bad editor, on the other hand, can ruin even the best video. I remember–not fondly–the experience of working with an editor who always [...]
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Posted on September 10th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
Many individual journalists and news organiations use YouTube to host their videos. But how many are using the Insight tool on the YouTube site to get a feel for how effective their videos are? Writing for his blog on the AR&D website, news consultant Bob Kaplitz shared an often viewed video, paired with some the metrics YouTube [...]
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Posted on June 4th, 2010 by Deborah Potter
When the Wall Street Journal used Foursquare to report that New York’s Times Square was being evacuated, the location-based social network proved its worth as a tool for journalists. Foursquare, Gowalla and other services let users “check in” at specific locations thanks to the built-in GPS on mobile phones. Originally designed as a cross between [...]
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Posted on May 20th, 2010 by Deborah Potter
Consider this: at many local television stations, reporters cover two or more stories a day and never turn a package. Former news director Geoff Roth, who now teaches at Hofstra University, says the trend toward covering the news with live shots and v/o’s or v/o-sots is not going away. At his last station in Fresno, [...]
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Posted on May 16th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
More research from RTDNA/Ball State University indicates that television stations are relying on solo journalists to do more newsgathering than ever. In fact, nearly a third of stations say they use sojos more than they do two-person crews. Three years ago, 22.3 percent of surveyed stations said they “mostly use” one-man-bands. Today, that percentage is [...]
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Posted on March 11th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
As the saying goes, sometimes the best camera for the story is the one in your hand. Yet, when it comes to shooting video, some still photographers seem to avoid using their digital SLR cameras. Jeff Achen is an interactive media strategist for GiveMN.org. He recently wrote a column for Quill magazine on using still cams for [...]
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Posted on February 8th, 2010 by Deb Wenger
Sometimes it’s fun to poke fun ourselves and British humorist, and journalist Charlie Brooker is particularly good at it. In the following segment, he explains how to put together the essential elements of a TV pkg. The truth can be painful, can’t it? In doing a search for the video, I also stumbled across a [...]
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