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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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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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