The single most important thing you can do to improve as a photojournalist is to edit your own work, says KSDK-TV’s Eric Voss. “Learn from your mistakes and missed opportunities,” he wrote in the NPPA’s News Photographer magazine. “You will…
Month: November 2007
No whining on the late shift
At a recent workshop, a reporter complained that she got her assignments too late to do anything creative with them. She worked night side at her TV station and covered a lot of meetings. The assignment desk would tell her…
Find a focus and lose the jargon
News with a little attitude
Talk about how journalism jobs are changing! The Florida Times-Union is planning a daily news segment on its Web site, jacksonville.com, and is advertising for a video blogger, “someone who can report the news with a little attitude and a…
Behind the scenes on Live at 5
Are social networks fair game for journalists?
Social networking sites now host billions of pictures and comments, a few of which might be relevant in covering a news story. Can the media use them? In the October 2007 NPPA News Photographer magazine, Brian McDermott reports that different…
What do you owe your newsmakers?
There’s no doubt that your approach to a story may change in the process of reporting it, but do you need to let the people you’re covering know that, too? For me, this question was raised by a little brouhaha involving a student…
Improving Web video
Do three simple things and your online video will look better, says videographer Peter Ralph on his Shooting by Numbers blog. 1. Keep your lens clean. This is especially important if you are shooting hand-held, Ralph says, because you’ll be…