Tag: Photojournalism

Talk to yourself when shooting video

by Mark Anderson, former NPPA photojournalist of the year Some of you may know that my dad recently passed. He was my hero and defined the words gentleman and optimist. When he was stationed over in France for the war,…

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Shooting for action-reaction-reaction

You’ve heard it before: to bring the impact of an action home, you need to shoot the reaction. Flames engulfing an apartment building have more impact if we also see the faces of people who are losing their homes. The…

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Another way to think about sequencing video

For those of us who have been working with video for a long time, the concept of wide, medium and close-up shots is a simple one.  But when you’re new to visual storytelling, it’s perfectly natural to ask things like,…

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Five tips from a TV video pro

TV photojournalist Anne Herbst does a lot more than shoot and edit. She writes a lot of stories, too, but unlike other solo journalists at KUSA in Denver, she doesn’t voice them. “My husband says I sound like Kermit the…

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The future of VJs

We’ve all read the stories about the sea change in television news. From the ABC network news division to local stations from coast to coast, VJs are taking over, the stories say. The “one man band” reporter who shoots and…

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Is the TV package outdated?

Consider this: at many local television stations, reporters cover two or more stories a day and never turn a package. Former news director Geoff Roth, who now teaches at Hofstra University, says the trend toward covering the news with live…

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More stations using solo journalists

More research from RTDNA/Ball State University indicates that television stations are relying on solo journalists to do more newsgathering than ever.   In fact, nearly a third of stations say they use sojos more than they do two-person crews.  Three years…

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Long-form video storytelling

When we used to talk about the advantages of the Web, we often mentioned the “bottomless newshole” – the ability to post more and longer stories online. We’ve learned a lot since then, most notably that the quality of the content definitely…

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