by Beth Johnson | Apr 30, 2013 | Reporting, Survival Kit
Small Market, USA — No matter how many hours you’ve spent watching Diane Sawyer over the years and dreamed of anchoring Good Morning America or World News, for some people getting that first TV reporting gig results in a revelation: I wasn’t cut-out for this. I...
by Beth Johnson | Aug 15, 2012 | App Articles, Honing Skills, Survival Kit
“Rules are made to be broken, but first you have to know the rules.” By now you have probably read that J-schools were called on to change the way they teach by the Knight Foundation. In its “Open Letter to American University Presidents” the...
by Beth Johnson | Jul 19, 2012 | Job Interviewing, Picking A Shop
There are few things more discouraging than applying for jobs in TV news. You’ve spent the last four years of your college career dreaming of this time. You’ve interned (you better have interned), you’ve watched the news religiously, you’ve practiced reading in front...
by Beth Johnson | Aug 9, 2011 | App Articles, Honing Skills, Management Issues, Survival Kit
Recently in Chicago, there was a drive by shooting. A freelance photographer got an interview with a 4 year old who mentioned when he grew up he was going to have a gun. The sound bite aired. Trouble is, after that bite the child added that he wanted to become a...
