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“Breaking Into TV News” — Watch The Videos Described In “Writing News Scripts”

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“Breaking Into TV News” — Watch The Videos Described In “Writing News Scripts”

In Breaking Into TV News – How To Get A Job & Excel As A Reporter-Photographer is a section on “Writing” where I present five different stories that I’ve done as a reporter-photographer, starting with my very first story back in 1984 at KWCH-TV in Wichita, Kansas, and four stories that I’ve done over the past year or so for KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California. Each news story includes the story-behind-the-story of how the story was assigned, shot, written and edited. Two of the three stories are accompanied by the actual scripts used, and one of those even includes my...

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“Breaking Into TV News” — The New Book Is Now On Amazon!

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“Breaking Into TV News” — The New Book Is Now On Amazon!

The book year is now available on Amazon! Breaking Into TV News – How To Get A Job & Excel As A TV Reporter-Photographer goes on sale on Amazon as of today. It is larger than my first book Naked Filmmaking and is printed on 8×10 size paper with over 250 full-color photographs. Breaking Into TV News is 198 pages (207 printed pages) packed with information that you are not likely to find in most other books. The TV news business is constantly changing, growing, evolving. Just look at the impact that the Internet has had on news. You...

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KWCH – Runners Photo Essay 1984

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KWCH – Runners Photo Essay 1984

I’m posting this as an historical artifact. It isn’t great television, in fact, it’s the kind of story that I don’t think anyone does anymore. This story is significant for one major thing in my life, however. It’s the first time my name was mentioned on TV. KWCH Runners 1984 from Mike Carroll on Vimeo. First off about this type of story. In today’s TV news climate many people could say that this is not fitting for TV news. “This isn’t news. This is a music video. You’ve taken a news event and reduced it to MTV.” “This is...

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KWCH Roadside Kansas Documentary 1987

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KWCH Roadside Kansas Documentary 1987

The general notion about Kansas is that it’s long and flat with not much to look at besides corn and wheat. I drove straight through the state a couple of times on my way to and back from California and tried to time it so that the eight hours it took to traverse the 400 miles from the eastern to western border could be done at night. I have to say that once I started living there, I was dead wrong about the state. In the mid-80s Kansas geologists Rex C. Buchanan and James R. McCauley wrote a book...

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