Darren Durlach left television almost two years ago to try something new. He'd won two consecutive NPPA TV Photographer of the Year awards and, unbeknownst to him, was on the verge of winning a third. He's now senior multimedia producer at the Boston Globe, where …
How would you define a memorable TV news story? For reporter Boyd Huppert, it's a story that connects with viewers, that goes beyond the facts to touch people in some way. To achieve that goal, Huppert looks for a character and a concept that will tie …
It's a long way from the "Boys on the Bus." Political reporters today have more information at their fingertips than a whole newsroom could provide not that long ago. Here are a few you might want to download, if you haven't already. Ad Hawk, free from …
A front row seat to history. The privilege of sharing life's most amazing moments. And the God-given right to eat behind the wheel. Nobody ever said working in TV news was all glamour, right? If you've ever been on a six-hour stake-out with no bathroom in sight, you've …
Here we go again. Two more journalists have learned lessons the hard way. If they thought their personal lives were somehow separate from their professional lives, they've had to think again. And while the two cases were vastly different, the outcome was the same. Both …
It's an age-old question. How can you be sure the information you're getting is accurate? That basic task of every journalist has become more difficult in today's digital world, when data can be so easily manipulated. But as we've noted here before, technology also makes …
From part-time, overnight camera operator in market 83 to best TV news photographer in the country in just six years: How did Nathan Thompson do it? Natural talent? Not at all, Thompson told NPPA's News Photographer magazine. Instead, he credits hard work and a deliberate, …
The "more with less" mantra has become so ingrained in TV newsrooms that the latest data may come as a surprise. Yes, once again, local stations set a new record for the amount of news they aired but they also staffed up to do it. On …
It was a sorry spectacle. For more than a week, NBC let Ann Curry twist slowly in the wind after word leaked that she was on her way out as co-host of the "Today" show barely a year after getting what she described as her …
CNN is taking a lot of grief today, and deservedly so. The network's well-respected Twitter feed for breaking news, @CNNbrk, posted the first tweet on the Supreme Court's decision on President Obama's health care law at 10:08 a.m. Unfortunately, it was absolutely wrong. The post followed …
One way to keep viewers engaged in a story from beginning to end is to write it as seamlessly as possible. What that means, in my mind, is making sure that every line connects to the next, whether it's all narration or a mix of …
We all know the value of video in TV news, but great video alone isn't enough. As a wise photojournalist once told me, "Sound is the other half of the picture." I think of that adage often when I'm asked to critique stories in which …
