Monthly Archives: March 2017

Covering the U.S. President from north of the border has become a lot more interesting. Here’s how one station is dealing with it.

Posted by Tim Morrissey

If not, take a look.

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Some analysis from Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard.

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Back in the day, radio reporters carried goofy wire leads with alligator clips to record interviews from telephones. That was back when tape recorders were state-of-the-art, long before the advent of digital recording and digital audio procession.

Technology has given us many new (and far easier) ways to record interviews. Here’s a link to a quick TED-talk tutorial on the latest method. You have to enter an e-mail address, but they will not spam you.

Posted by Tim Morrissey

There’s a big human element involved in Google’s attempt to show people which search results are likely fake news. Read about it here.

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The RTDNA award ceremony tonight will be hosted by Chris Matthews. There’s a link to the stream here.

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Read this interesting piece from StoryBench here.

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This is an event reporters, producers, photographers, and editors will want to access Tuesday morning (March 14th) at 8:30.

Details are here.

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Here we go again: another round of rookie TV folks this morning pronouncing it “an-TEE-go”. Nothing shows your inexperience more than mispronouncing the name of a Wisconsin city. But you never have to guess, you never have to ask someone else in the newsroom. Guides to properly pronouncing Wisconsin place-names have been around since the 1930’s, and for more than a decade, a comprehensive user-friendly guide has been online.

You never have to guess.  Bookmark this.

Posted by Tim Morrissey