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    Broadcast Journalism Pocket Checklist: A daily guide for reporters, anchors and producers
    Broadcast Journalism Pocket Checklist: A daily guide for reporters, anchors and producers
    Broadcast Journalism Pocket Checklist: A daily guide for reporters, anchors and producers
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    Broadcast Journalism Pocket Checklist: A daily guide for reporters, anchors and producers

    By Randy Tatano

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    In broadcast journalism, nothing is worse than missing something important because... you forgot.

    These days news people are being pulled in many different directions. In addition to getting stories and newscasts on the air, you now have to worry about updating the station's website, Facebook, and Twitter. There's so much stuff to do, you'd better write it all down.

    Now you don't have to.

    The Broadcast Journalism Pocket Checklist is a digital guide that will make sure you don't forget the most important aspects of your job. Separate sections for reporters, anchors and producers will ensure you take care of the basics and don't miss any elements.

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    Randy Tatano spent more than a decade as a television news reporter and anchor and six years as a manager. His work has taken him from the floors of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions to Ground Zero in New York to Jay Leno's backyard. His stories have been seen on NBC, ABC and CNN, and he's been honored for his work by AP and UPI. He currently works as a freelance network field producer for NBC, CBS and ABC. He is also the co-author of a non-fiction book on the television industry, "Eyewitness Newsman" and has written three novels under his pen name, Nick Harlow.
    He mentors young reporters through his website televisionnewscoach.com and writes an advice blog for television journalists, tvnewsgrapevine.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandyTatano
    Release dateJan 30, 2013
    ISBN9781301890231
    Broadcast Journalism Pocket Checklist: A daily guide for reporters, anchors and producers

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      Broadcast Journalism Pocket Checklist - Randy Tatano

      INTRODUCTION

      Let's face it, there's nothing more annoying than wrapping up your day, looking back at your work, and saying to yourself, I forgot something. As a reporter, you may have forgotten to do a standup or get a key piece of b-roll or used a great piece of nat sound. As an anchor, you may not have explained a story as well as you could or missed a great lead-in that would have been perfect. As a producer, you might have stacked your show in such a way that it didn't flow very well, missed an important story, or forgot to ask the photogs for money shots to open your newscast.

      With television news changing so rapidly, it's impossible to remember everything. Twenty years ago you put a product on the air and that was it. Now you have to deal with the station website, Facebook, Twitter, extra live shots, longer shifts, and possibly shooting your own story. Or two. You're pulled in so many different directions and have so many duties it's natural that some things will fall through the cracks.

      And sadly, those things that are missed are often the most important.

      Hence, the pocket checklist.

      This being the digital age, of course, means the thing in your pocket or purse is probably a cell phone. So this is an electronic checklist. It will never get dog-eared from sitting in your back pocket, never get coffee stains on it, never be forgotten back at the station or your home. Let's face it, when was the last time you forgot

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