In the early days of online video, interactivity looked something like this: A person on camera would point above, below or to the side of the video frame and suggest that the viewer might want to "click the link" to learn more about whatever they were …
by Deb Halpern Wenger When Tony Russell heads out to cover a story for KOTV in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his toolkit includes two phones and a host of apps. His favorite is Instagram. “I use Instagram because I like to show viewers what I’m working on,” said Russell, …
It's obvious that GoPro cameras are great for shooting sports, but that's hardly all they're good for. Solo journalists like KUSA reporter Matt Renoux use them for daily news. “Of course, they don’t have the same quality as a $30,000 news camera," Renoux told Steamboat Today, "but they …
Shooting a TV news story on mobile phone isn't exactly commonplace but it does happen every so often. Shooting a half-hour TV special on an iPhone? As far as I can tell, this is a first. Dallas reporter Mike Castellucci has been shooting stories on his iPhone for …
How many local television stations still have old videotape, or even old film, lying around in a dusty back room or basement? "A priceless perspective on the last half century," says WRAL reporter Laura Leslie, whose station in Raleigh, N.C., is now digitizing its videotape …
It's that time of the year again: time to enter a journalism awards contest. NPPA's Best of Photojournalism competition opens for submissions today; RTDNA is now accepting entries for the Murrow Awards. If you're sending your work to any of the award competitions, give yourself the best …
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So said Isaac Newton in his third law of motion. And so it seems to me when it comes to opinions on the present or future state of television. What else can you think when, …
Let me begin by fessing up. I don't know how to code and I doubt very much that I'm going to learn. But I'm blown away by journalists who understand coding and know enough about it to enhance their digital work. So I'm always interested …
Another year comes to an end with another year-in-review post. I guess you could call it a NewsLab tradition. Taking a look back at the year gone by is one way to get a sense of what NewsLab readers are most interested in; it's also …
It's a perennial question and the answer keeps changing: What are TV news directors today looking for in new hires? For Geoff Roth, who's building a new television newsroom from the ground up at Fox 46 in Charlotte, N.C., the list is long and challenging. …
When you get something wrong in a news story, how do you make it right? Newsroom policies--if they even exist--usually cover the timing and placement of corrections in legacy media and online, but social media are rarely mentioned. That's a big oversight, considering that errors …
Missed it! It's an awful feeling. You've been waiting and waiting for a specific shot for a story and when it finally happens, you hit record just a wee bit too late. Maybe you've captured some of what you need, but it's going to be …
