Legendary. Pioneering. Irrepressible. Ray Farkas was all of those things, and more. He died of colon cancer January 4, 2008; anyone who had the good fortune to know him will miss him terribly. Ray had a long career with NBC…
Remembering Ray Farkas
Category: 08. Storytelling: Broadcast
Learn from your mistakes
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…
Editing tips from one of the best
Digital editing allows you to do amazing things with video, but the 2007 NPPA Editor of the Year urges editors to show restraint. Josh Shea of KCNC-TV in Denver was one of my fellow instructors at this year’s NPPF Airborne…
Risk, initiative, persistence
You might think the news business is changing faster than ever before, but anyone who started in TV before videotape (like me) can tell you that it’s been in transition for years. John Goheen, the only three-time NPPA Photographer of…
Natural sound matters
Natural sound makes stories come alive. It lets viewers experience something close to what it was like to witness a story in person. A story without nat sound is flat and dull. Want proof? Watch this video from former TV…