Wanna feel small? Go stand by the ocean. Wanna feel large? Squeeze into the shotgun seat of a police car with a full-blown fancycam and tell the guy with the badge to ‘just ignore you’. If you can still move your legs when that’s over, hobble on over t…

Wanna feel small? Go stand by the ocean. Wanna feel large? Squeeze into the shotgun seat of a police car with a full-blown fancycam and tell the guy with the badge to ‘just ignore you’. If you can still move your legs when that’s over, hobble on over t…

Video journalist Anne Herbst firmly believes in preparation. She does research on stories before leaving the newsroom. She shows up to assignments early so she can meet people and figure out in advance who might be a strong character. And she writes fast–an essential skill when you’re working by yourself and you have to do it all. Herbst is a former TV news photojournalist for KUSA-TV in Denver who now works for the Denver Post, where she shoots, writes and sometimes voices her own stories. She’s able to write fast, she says, because she logs every bit of her video. But that’s not her only trick for writing in a hurry. She also uses her smart phone to help her write on the go. Herbst started writing stories while she was still in local TV because she saw where things were going in the news business. She encourages photojournalists to write VO/SOTs and urges reporters to take out a camera and learn to use it. “You want to be able to do everything,” Herbst says. “I learned it before I had to.” Something else Herbst has learned: how to do interviews when working alone. “Have a person lean on something […]

Just when I was about to leave Atlanta and head home I got the kind of call I love to get.  ESPN needed a crew to shoot a live shot with Jeff Gordon the next day.  I couldn’t have been more pumped!  I booked another night at a hotel in ATL and tried to get […]

There will be no new posts for a while. Coming down with shingles sucks as the newest of a bunch of health issues of late and that is all I will say in the matter since I promised I wouldn’t be a downer and complain about the excruciating pain online. Most of my non-loyal readers […]

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