TV Archive

Here’s a stocking stuffer of simple yet important writing tips for TV, Radio & the web.

These tips come from Poynter and the wonderful Al Tompkins

• Focus your story by summarizing in three words. Use one theme per story, one thought per sentence. Select, don’t compress,

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These eight tips come from a producer at 60 minutes.  Hopefully the eight suggestions shared here will make your interviews stronger and more effective.  Be Prepared!

News Veteran Hank Price offers up five things you can do to gets training,  courtesy of Newslab.   I’ll throw in a sixth, the INBA fall conference at the end of this month.

How to get training for TV News.  More  

This week’s tip of the week provides some great suggestions for accessories in mobile journalism gear.    It comes from the National Association of Black Journalists’ conference via the International Journalists’ Network.

Our Tip Of The Week, is more of a thinking ahead piece.

An op/ed in USA Today says newspaper weather reports could include a daily carbon dioxide report.   TV could incorporate that quite easily.

This week’s Tip Of The Week comes from RTNDA & reporter Stephanie Bertini.  See the full article here.

As a reporter for most of my career, I realized that I had to do the daily news grind feeding stories from a statehouse bureau to our member stations.     More  

Minneapolis TV Reporter Boyd Huppert emphasized that importance of knowing the focus of your story, when speaking to the Illinois News Broadcasters Association over the weekend.

It motivated me to focus on FOCUS in future Tips of the Week.

Huppert’s working definition of focus is “Character,  More  

Thanks to Ken Keller.  A good chunk of this article came from an INBA Tune In back in the 1990’s (based on the original article mentioning Governor Jim Edgar.)

With Mr. Keller writing about passive voice 20 years ago, we know this is a perennial problem in broadcast and now web writing.   More