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The best local TV news stations to work for?
News directors from around the country say Hearst Television deserves “the prize for best overall news” based solely on reputation. That’s according to a TVNewsCheck survey. The station group garnered 29.9%, or 23 of the 77 votes cast. A clear second was Belo at 16.9% with 13. Scripps, Cox and Raycom followed with seven, six and five votes, […]
Had a Dad
(Indulge me, won’t you? There are themes deeper than the evening news…)When three weeks ago my older brother Richard called to tell me our biological father had passed, I told him quite honestly, I didn’t think Dick Carney COULD die. After all, in hi…
Read More →Had a Dad
(Indulge me, won’t you? There are themes deeper than the evening news…)When three weeks ago my older brother Richard called to tell me our biological father had passed, I told him quite honestly, I didn’t think Dick Carney COULD die. After all, in hi…
Read More →The Basics of Videojournalism
…okay, time for some overinflated self-promoting grandizing. A bud of mine – Larry Nance (no not THAT one, THIS one) and I have been working on and off for the past five or more years on a textbook on videojournalism. We kind of slowed down and resumed normal life for a while, but then decided […]
Shanghai Sightseeing
George Krainukov, news cameraman for Universal Newsreel, shooting the aftermath of fighting in Shanghai during World War Two.
Read More →When writing, remember the verbs
Some things rarely change. TV news writing is one of them, unfortunately. More than a decade ago, I noticed something about both network and local newscasts that drove me nuts and wrote a column about it. This morning, I got a message from Rick Tillery, an anchor in Medford, Oregon. “It appears this needs to […]
LA Crew Steps Into The Ring For Fox And The UFC
How many cameras can one DP really use in one day? If you’re shooting promos for Fox’s coverage of the UFC, you can use three! Skip Clark, one of Go To Team’s two crews based in Los Angeles, CA, recently DP’d the promos and artwork shoot for Fox up in Santa Clarita, CA. Fox wanted […]
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