Category: Journalism

Paul Franz, a recent graduate of the University of Miami’s multimedia program offers up some advice on how to prepare yourself for a career in video journalism. His tips are on target and mirror what (I hope) my students hear in the classroom – that because we teach you one way of doing something doesn’t mean it is the only...

The Associated Press has a story out looking at some of those folks who are still shooting film. And there are … a few. Kodak may sell 20 million rolls of film this year … which seems like a lot, until you realize that just a decade ago it was selling, ahem, one billion rolls a year. (All of us...

Brian Stelter, reporting for the New York Times, put together a mini-diary of his day covering the Joplin tornado. It has some obvious advice and some sound thinking about how to better prepare for diasaster coverage. He also reminds us of what print and broadcast can – and can’t – do well: Part of me thought, “This is a television...

Patty Bullion walked into her yard Wednesday afternoon and found it littered with a debris field of memories – the storms that had taken so much from Alabama residents had deposited their lives into other people’s yards. So she did what she could – she gathered the photos and documents, scanned them and created a Facebook page to try and...