Posts Tagged ‘ One-Man Newsman ’

U.S. Army “Wounded Warriors” Practice Yoga–KCRA Story

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U.S. Army “Wounded Warriors” Practice Yoga–KCRA Story

This is a TV news story that I shot, reported, wrote and edited that ran on KCRA-TV’s Common Ground on Saturday May 19, 2012. In daily news we live under very strong time constraints of stories not exceeding a one minute and twenty second running length. Audience attention span is short and impatient so we have to keep our stories shorter, more to the point, and faster paced in order to hold the viewers. On the flip side of that, at KCRA we are extremely fortunate to have a once-a-month magazine program called Common Ground where we can run...

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KCRA Chinese Delegates Visit Sacramento — Expanded

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KCRA Chinese Delegates Visit Sacramento — Expanded

A month ago I reported a story KCRA Channel 3 Reports about a delegation of Chinese businessmen and government officials from Funan County in the People’s Republic of China coming to Sacramento to look at a facility for a distribution center for their imports. They make furniture and baskets from bamboo and other products, all green materials. The location they were visiting was Jon’s Furniture, a 40,000 square foot structure, on Stockton Boulevard. Jon’s has been a family-run business in Sacramento for over 50 years before closing the doors last year due to the economy. When I first moved...

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“Breaking Into TV News” – Breaks Into TV

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“Breaking Into TV News” – Breaks Into TV

This past week I was a guest on KCRAChannel 3 Reports at 7 A.M. with host Adrienne Bankert to discuss my new book Breaking Into TV News: How To Get A Job & Excel As A TV Reporter-Photographer. You think about appearing for interviews like this for days in advance, then once you’re in the moment — and you’re on live TV — all you can think about is not going blank and keep talking, fall back on the handful of talking points you want to get across. Then when it’s over it’s like finishing a full out lap...

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KCRA Olivia Morgan Graduates

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KCRA Olivia Morgan Graduates

Saturday at KCRA, my end of the week. After quickly shooting a story on an auction of California state government surplus i was given printouts for three addition stories for me to shoot quickly throughout the day for use as VO-SOTs (Voice Over-Sound On Tape) — short stories for the anchors to read over. The first story on the list was a college graduation at Memorial Auditorium in downtown Sacramento. The main thrust of the story was Olivia Morgan, a 74 year-old woman graduating after going back to college to get a degree in order to get a part-time...

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“Breaking Into TV News”–All Done! And Two Weeks Of Vacation

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“Breaking Into TV News”–All Done! And Two Weeks Of Vacation

I can’t remember when, if ever, I’ve taken two weeks off and didn’t go any place. Believe this is now referred to as a “Stay-cation.” The time off was necessary because I’d built up so much time at work that if I didn’t use it, I would lose it. Hmm. . . . Whattaya gonna do? The first few days were spent putting the finishing touches on the Kindle Edition of the new book Breaking Into TV News – How To Get A Job & Excel As A TV Reporter-Photographer. Making a Kindle version of your book is extremely...

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“Breaking Into TV News” — Kindle Edition Is Here!

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“Breaking Into TV News” — Kindle Edition Is Here!

The Kindle ebook of Breaking Into TV News – How To Get A Job & Excel As A Reporter-Photographer is now available for instant download on Amazon! And the Look Inside feature is available on the Kindle Edition so you can download the first 20 pages of the book to sample — or read on your computer on the Amazon page. So start reading now. Breaking Into TV News was written largely for students, both in college and in high school, and two of the great advantages to the Kindle Edition are 1) it’s much cheaper at only $9.99;...

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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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Digital Convergence Podcast — Shout Out About “Breaking Into TV News”

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Digital Convergence Podcast — Shout Out About “Breaking Into TV News”

A few weeks ago I posted about walking my dogs and listening to my favorite podcast — The Digital Convergence Podcast, about DSLR cameras and digital editing — and hearing the host Carl Olson read an e-mail that I’d sent and put a plug in for Naked Filmmaking: How To Make A Feature-Length Film – Without A Crew – For $10,000 Or Less. This afternoon I was driving on assignment for KCRA and listening to this week’s podcast — Episode #68 — when half-way through it Carl Olson made a reference to the new book Breaking Into TV News...

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“Breaking Into TV News” — Look Inside How To Get A Job In TV News

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“Breaking Into TV News” — Look Inside How To Get A Job In TV News

Breaking Into TV News became available on Amazon only just yesterday morning and by 10 AM had sold its first copy! Thank you!!! I wrote Breaking Into TV News – How To Get A Job & Excel As A Reporter-Photographer for high school and college students. Most of the journalism interns I talk to have been interested in TV news from the time they were in high school. I would love for high school students to get their hands on this book to help give them some professional focus and preparation for what to do once they get their...

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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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