We live in an age of experts–or, at least, self-proclaimed experts. They’re quoted all the time. They’re all over television news. But are they really experts? Not always. Earlier this year, a guest on the cable outlet OAN claimed he…
Moodle and margaritas? Blackboard and beer? Journalism teachers may be joking about beverage pairings as they prepare to teach online for a while, but they’re also facing challenges posed by the need for “virtual instruction” due to the coronavirus. Most…
“What you don’t know can kill you. What you do know can keep you safe.” For Chris Post, a photojournalist at WFMZ in Allentown, Pennsylvania, safety is always top of mind. He’s a former first responder trained in situational awareness…
Derek Seals is one of those people who just knows how to tell a story. The multimedia work he’s produced for the Detroit Free Press since 1999 is award-winning and powerful. He says he thinks about visual journalism as if…
Lots of advice about interviewing is a variation on the same theme. Do your homework. Plan ahead. Ask open-ended questions. All good suggestions. But a few tips that are rarely shared may be just as useful. Dean Nelson is an expert…
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.…
“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…
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…
“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…
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,…
