By Mindy McAdams
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A very fat issue of Nieman Reports came out a couple of months ago. I thought, yeah, I gotta read that … and put it off, and put it off. Well, today I started reading. You know what I mean. I have the table of contents open in Firefox. The titles are not very enticing, [...]
Regina McCombs left this comment earlier this week:
… we have to be careful not to lump all the bad stuff with all the terrific stuff. The biggest problem with TV news is there’s too little of the good stuff out there, not that great storytelling can’t be done on television.
I have to agree with that: [...]
Steve Safran reports on a heated panel discussion at NAB, the National Association of Broadcasters show:
The topic of this panel was “The New VJs: One-Man Bands or the Future of Newsgathering?” Moderator Chip Mahaney asked whether there is a difference between VJs and what we used to call “One-man-bands.” Rosenblum said absolutely yes, there is.
“A [...]
In the irresistibly titled post “Mama Don’t Let Your Photogs Grow Up To Be VJ’s,” WKRN-TV general manager Mike Sechrist tells us about the transformation going on in his newsroom in Nashville, Tennessee:
We began VJ training in July of last year. Four VJ’s and two trainers for six days of hands on work usually lasting [...]
Last Friday I wrote a post about where to get started if you are a (print) journalist who wants to learn online and multimedia. Because I never worked in TV, I couldn’t really offer any advice for the TV journalists.
So I cleverly goaded Andy Dickinson, over in England, to do the job. He’s written a [...]
Frontline is touting a new documentary series about the practice of journalism today. They have a nice Web page up for this, complete with six video previews from interviews with William Safire, Pat Buchanan, Bill Keller, John McLaughlin, Eric Schmidt and Jeff Jarvis. (Yes, every single one of them a white man over 40. You’d [...]
Andy Dickinson ran a workshop for print journalists who will be using video, and he posted some fascinating details about the training.
British print journalists can write shorthand at 100 words per minute? In 2006? Who knew!
What really grabbed my attention was the 150 words vs. 400 words comparison.
In TV, even if the information is there, [...]
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