by Deborah Potter • • Comments Off on 5 tips to improve your delivery
Sounding natural is hard work. “You’re never just reading words, you’re communicating a message,” says George Bodarky of WFUV public radio in New York City. The key is to sound like yourself, not a robotic announcer-person like the fictional Ted…
by Deborah Potter • • Comments Off on Bring back the missing T
Where did it go? I keep hearing people on the air saying “impor’ant” and “Brih’an” and I can’t help but wonder what happened to the T. Was it not considered important enough to say Britain? I thought I might be…
by Deborah Potter • • Comments Off on Overcoming your “accent”
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…
by Debora Wenger • • Comments Off on What it takes to anchor TV news
For many TV journalists, moving into a spot on the anchor desk is a dream come true. Today, Ginger Gadsden is living that dream at WKMG in Orlando, but she says the reality is that anchoring is also hard work.…
by Debora Wenger • • Comments Off on Getting on-air when you’re hired behind the scenes
It’s a dilemma faced by many on the hunt for a reporting or anchoring job. Do you take an off-air position as a producer or work on the website to get your foot in the door? Or do you reject…
KRON4 anchor Marty Gonzalez calls them “TV Hands” — that’s when an anchor keeps the elbows in, hands at waist level and then talks using natural gestures. Gonzalez also teaches broadcast journalism at San Francisco State University and says it’s…