“Preparation equals success.” That’s Wendy Salzman’s motto and it served her well as an investigative reporter in Atlanta and Philadelphia. She shared tips on preparing for interviews and more at the 2018 Excellence in Journalism conference in Baltimore. Do your…
Another terror attack, this time at an upscale hotel in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. At least 21 people were killed in the assault on the DusitD2 complex last week. As the siege went on for 20 hours, photojournalists captured images…
You’ve done a TV story, rewritten it for the web and promoted it on social media. All good. But you can still do more with the story online by adding multimedia elements and there are good reasons for doing so.…
There’s a lot more to reporting than going out on assignment and asking questions. To tell really good stories, you need an inquisitive mind and a willingness to take risks–two characteristics Boyd Huppert of KARE-TV in Minneapolis has in abundance.…
We recently shared a digital story from ProPublica that used a game to explore what it’s like to seek asylum in the United States. That’s just one of the outlet’s interactive, visual stories that drew attention over the past year. Now, ProPublica…
If you listen to the public radio program or podcast of Radiolab (and you should), one of the first things you’ll notice is how eclectic the stories are. They’re often about people or events or scientific processes you’ve never heard of.…
Some stories just aren’t “made for TV” but that doesn’t mean they’re not worth telling. Take the clergy sex abuse scandal still rocking the Catholic Church. If you can get someone on camera for an interview, you’re doing well. B-roll…
“FOIA gets violated every day of the week,” says Tisha Thompson, an investigative reporter for ESPN who used to work in local TV news. Over 20 years in the business, Thompson has been ignored, slow-walked and denied when requesting public…
Social media can be a bother, just one more thing to fit into an already overloaded day. If it feels that way to you, you’re doing it wrong. Boyd Huppert, who’s been in TV news more than 30 years, calls…
Organization is everything to investigative reporter Ted Oberg of KTRK-TV in Houston. “You win or lose on Day One,” he says. “You can’t catch up or recreate notes or contacts you get on the first day and only save on…
