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At the End of the Day…
Funny how the average live truck can crisscross three counties, race through rush hour traffic, squeeze into a breakdown lane, idle for six hours straight, double as an audio booth, sleep three (un)comfortably, attract transients and school children, b…
Read More →Vintage news camera ad
After Paramount newsreel cameraman Al Mingalone’s infamous runaway balloon flight in September of 1937, Bell and Howell capitalized on Mingalone’s fame and his camera’s survival in advertisements for their cameras. It was not unusual for camera manufacturers to take advantage of the fame of the users of their gear to sell their cameras. Another example […]
Read More →Tips on planning a TV news story
I’m of the belief that planning makes stories stronger, and I often talk about planning as the step that comes between reporting and writing that is too often skipped. An outline like the one on the left–just a few words jotted down in a notebook–helps me stay on track. The longer the story I’m writing, […]
Los Angeles Crew Gets Schooled – Acting Schooled That Is!
If you’re working in Los Angeles, you’re going to run into actors. And they might even be football players!? Go To Team’s Skip Clark, based in Los Angeles, CA, was working on set with Danny DeVito recently while shooting a segment for the Fox Sports NFL Pre-Game Show. DeVito was there to help “football players” […]
Read More →Arose Such A Clatter…
‘Twas the week before Christmas and all through the land,News crews were squeezing into their vans.To airports and malls they carried their loads,They even went LIVE by the side of the road…Around them the world began to slow down,But they were too b…
Read More →Arose Such A Clatter…
‘Twas the week before Christmas and all through the land,News crews were squeezing into their vans.To airports and malls they carried their loads,They even went LIVE by the side of the road…Around them the world began to slow down,But they were too b…
Read More →TV news Christmas stories
Fifty-eight years ago this week, cameramen Charlie Mack and Leo Rossi were far away from their families working on this particular Christmas story along with Ed Murrow. Nearly six decades later, one still finds this story used as an example of good storytelling in broadcast journalism textbooks (Al Tompkins’ Aim for the Heart to name […]
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