A nice report from the Center For Media Engagement at the University of Texas @ Austin.
Gaining Trust In TV News
Posted July 16, 2020 by Bill Wheelhouse
TV Archive
Six Great Writing Tips
Posted December 18, 2019 by Bill Wheelhouse
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,
Top Tips For Investigative Television Interviews
Posted October 23, 2019 by Bill Wheelhouse
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!
Getting TV News Training When The Company Won’t Pay For it
Posted September 4, 2019 by Bill Wheelhouse
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.
Important Items For Your Multi-Media Field Kit
Posted August 22, 2019 by Bill Wheelhouse
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.
Something Your Weather Department Could Do Related To Climate Change
Posted May 28, 2019 by Bill Wheelhouse
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.
A Reporter’s Guide To Carving Out Time To Investigate
Posted May 8, 2019 by Bill Wheelhouse
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
Too Soon? Not Soon Enough? This Week’s Tip.
Posted April 24, 2019 by Bill Wheelhouse
I hear and see it a lot. A reporter telling me a town may soon see a new business. Citizens may soon see higher garbage rates. The state may soon be home to… you get my point. Perhaps telling your audience something may be coming soon works good enough. More
The Importance Of Being Focused
Posted April 16, 2019 by Bill Wheelhouse
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
Newswriting: The Dreaded Passive Voice
Posted November 13, 2018 by Bill Wheelhouse
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