As an investigative reporter, Brendan Keefe of WXIA-TV in Atlanta is accustomed to people assuming he works with more than one photographer when shooting his trademark long-form interviews. When his stories air, viewers see him asking questions on camera and…
Steve Hartman has what looks like a dream job. He travels the country, telling uplifting stories that run once a week on the CBS Evening News. “On the Road” is a legendary franchise once the province of the great Charles…
How can you help people understand what it’s really like to live through a major news story? Take the experience of people leaving their home countries to seek asylum in the United States. Video is one way of sharing what…
Think you don’t have a voice for podcasting? That’s what Amber Hunt, a reporter at the Cincinnati Enquirer, had been told. When she recorded Accused, an investigation into an unsolved murder, she struggled to get used to the microphone and had…
“Some photographers and reporters nicknamed me ‘the devil,’” Geoff Roth says with a wry grin, but he has no doubts about what he preaches. “MoJo [mobile journalism] is the way we are moving in the 21st century.” Roth is convinced…
How do you recover when your newsroom comes under attack? What do you do when your entire newsroom becomes the story? Those were two of the questions facing the Capital Gazette after a man shot his way into the newsroom in…
For photojournalist Alanna Delfino, sound is the most important part of the picture. “I’m always shooting,” she says. “When I roll up to a scene, I close my eyes and listen for where the sound is coming from. If I hear…
By Deborah Potter. Op-ed. Anonymous source. Commentary. Journalists know what these terms mean but many Americans don’t. A recent survey found the vast majority of Americans sometimes confuse factual statements with opinion, especially if they happen to agree with the…
When I worked at CBS I was often asked where in the Midwest I was from. I’ve never lived a day of my life in the Midwest. No one in my immediate family was from the Midwest. But apparently, I…
When you’re out covering a story, are you planning an escape route? NPR’s Windsor Johnston says that’s what she does whenever a reporting assignment involves a large crowd. “People feel they have a directive” to go after journalists these days,…
