Consumer reporter Jackie Callaway of WFTS in Tampa calls her beat a beast. She's expected to produce two or three quick turns a week and a "deeper dive" every other week, while working long-term on investigative stories. But after heading the station's "Taking Action" franchise …
Do you write more than you read? One way to become a better writer is to read more. Here's how the Portuguese author Jose Saramago, who won the Nobel Prize for literature, once described his writing routine: "I write two pages. And then I read and …
Organized chaos. That's how Lee Zurik of WVUE in New Orleans describes his work days. And no wonder. He anchors two prime time newscasts every night and also serves as the station's chief investigative reporter. How does he manage to keep producing award-winning work? We asked …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Ask an entire generation of journalists what inspired them to go into or stay in the news business and the answer often comes down to one word: Watergate. Forty years ago this month, two young reporters at the Washington Post filed their first stories about …
Quick: What do Wynton Marsalis, Elizabeth Smart and Chelsea Clinton have in common? They have well-known names, certainly, but that's not all they share. All three are now employed by network news divisions, which speaks volumes about both the power of celebrity and the current …
He was a ground breaker who became a CBS News icon; a game show host and pitchman who became such a hard-nosed journalist that his name made up half of "the four most dreaded words in the English language: 'Mike Wallace is here.'" His death …
It's not a first, but it's exceedingly rare. This year's IRE Medal, the highest award for investigative reporting by Investigative Reporters and Editors, went to two broadcast outlets: KRTK and KQED. Only once before in the 18-year history of the medals has broadcast recorded a …
You might think that this is yet another rant on how technology is putting pressure on journalists to publish more quickly and pushing what's published out to more people, more easily than ever before. But two things happened this week that made me think that we …
by John Larson, correspondent, PBS Note taking for me has always been defined by deadline -- the tighter it is, the more my notes tend to reflect immediate needs: the in/out cues of the best potential quotes, the most important facts/statistics that I'll need RIGHT NOW. …
