Television news is great at conveying emotion but only if the storyteller captures it. So keep rolling. That’s Mike Castellucci’s advice for young journalists. Castellucci is an award-winning reporter and photographer who now teaches at Michigan State. “Students get a…
If you think local television news is all flash and trash, and radio news is just headlines, you’re missing part of the picture. Sure, lots of stations still follow the “if it bleeds it leads” philosophy, spending far too much…
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.…
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…
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…
Lots of journalism students love the idea of telling stories, but reporting frightens them. They can’t imagine walking up to someone they don’t know and asking questions. They need plenty of encouragement and lots of assignments to get more comfortable…
When I conduct training on using mobile devices as news gathering tools, the room is generally filled with journalists wielding iPhones. However, in a recent podcast produced by journalism.co.uk, some mobile experts are suggesting that 2015 was a game changing…
One of the strongest broadcast journalism programs in the country is located at the University of Montana, and Professor Denise Dowling is one of the best instructors in the school. She gets students started on video storytelling by following a…
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…
KARE-11’s Boyd Huppert is an amazing storyteller. A workshop with him may be just about equivalent to a master class in TV news. At the Excellence in Journalism conference, he shared some of the things he wished he had known…
