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The Jelly Belly Santorum Forum
The legendary pairing of candy and politics goes back many years, to a time known to historians as the Swingin’ 80’s… a time when then-president and former California governor Ronald Reagan declared his love for a locally produced jelly bean. The com…
Read More →The Jelly Belly Santorum Forum
The legendary pairing of candy and politics goes back many years, to a time known to historians as the Swingin’ 80’s… a time when then-president and former California governor Ronald Reagan declared his love for a locally produced jelly bean. The com…
Read More →What’s new is old is new again…
I remember when CNN started up in the 70s. Friend of mine (a camerawoman) came up to me one day and said, “There’s this guy from CNN who said he’d make me a star!” She was smiling and I laughed. A cameraman a star? Seemed like a podunk idea…going nowhere fast. But THAT sure didn’t […]
What’s new is old is new again…
I remember when CNN started up in the 70s. Friend of mine (a camerawoman) came up to me one day and said, “There’s this guy from CNN who said he’d make me a star!” She was smiling and I laughed. A cameraman a star? Seemed like a podunk idea…going nowhere fast. But THAT sure didn’t […]
Crafting a creative stand-up for TV news
For many years now, on-air journalists have been urged to do active stand-ups. In the best examples, the reporter serves as a kind of tour guide for the audience. Here’s the advice we’ve offered in Advancing the Story on how to do them well: Use the scene, don’t just stand with it behind you. Show […]
At Mud Mountain Dam
Four Seattle-based news photogs covering the construction of the Mud Mountain Dam in early 1941. Left to right: Charles Perryman of News of the Day, Chalmer Sinkey of Fox Movietone, Earl Nelson of Universal Newsreel and Bill Hudson of Pathe News. Charles Perryman wrote about covering the dam’s construction: One of the world’s strangest engineering […]
Read More →Nashville Crew Spends the Weekend with Phi Sigma Sigma in D.C.
With an HVX 200 in hand I headed up to Washington D.C. for the Phi Sigma Sigma National Leadership Conference. It’s not everyday I’m working with sorority girls so I figured this will be interesting. I spent the majority of my time shooting interviews. I think we ended up shooting about 40 interviews by the […]
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