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Forty-Five Years Ago….
Forty-five years ago yesterday, reporter-cameraman Steve Pieringer of KRLD-TV died of his injuries after being severely burned in a gasoline storage tank explosion in Kennedale, Texas. Pieringer was at the Kennedale service station filming the fire on August 1st, 1968, standing 50 yards away from the burning 6,000 gallon storage Read More →
Think global…work local…
The VJ world is heating up, albeit primarily in the world’s hot spots. With the ever shrinking network budgets and a growing need for accurate coverage in the nooks and crannies of our expanding world, videojournalists are becoming a prime commodity. Why? They work locally. They know their area and its politics. Most importantly, they Read More →
Ephemera from the early days of TV news
In my not-so-vast library of news clippings, interviews, books and other related matter covering a century of motion picture and television photojournalism, I also have the occasional piece of ephemera as well. Today’s example would be a 1958 Chicago Police press credential and a 1954 CBS employee ID belonging to Read More →
The Justice League of Photographers -vs – Hollywood Boulevard: July 2013
It actually wasn’t an “official” JLOP get together. Mostly it was just me saying on Facebook that I might want to go out to Hollywood and take pictures last Friday night.That’s how I wound up with a couple of my fellow photography artis…
Read More →The Justice League of Photographers -vs – Hollywood Boulevard: July 2013
It actually wasn’t an “official” JLOP get together. Mostly it was just me saying on Facebook that I might want to go out to Hollywood and take pictures last Friday night.That’s how I wound up with a couple of my fellow photography artis…
Read More →Profitable Witness
Let’s say you’re standing around and a car catches on fire near you.The driver bails out of the flaming car and runs away.The flaming (now driverless) car rolls forward into oncoming traffic.. . .and explodes!You’re watching all of this from a fairly s…
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