ShopTalk News People Are Peeved! By Doug Drew on Jun. 17, 2010 - 12:00 AM The last two weeks I have asked news people what really ticks them off about news, and it didnt take long to get a long list of gripes. I got a huge amount of emails, and I am trying to publish as many responses as possible. Some ...
ShopTalk News People Are Peeved! By Doug Drew on Jun. 11, 2010 - 12:00 AM Seems news people are really peeved about news! In my last article, I listed a few common pet peeves about television news and asked readers to send me their pet peeves. It didn’t take long for my inbox to start filling up! ...
ShopTalk News People Are Peeved! By Doug Drew on Jun. 10, 2010 - 12:00 AM Seems news people are really peeved about news! In my last article, I listed a few common pet peeves about television news and asked readers to send me their pet peeves. It didn’t take long for my inbox to start filling up! ...
ShopTalk News Pet Peeves By Doug Drew on Jun. 4, 2010 - 12:00 AM I was going to write an article entitled: The Top Ten Things About Local News That Drive Me Crazy. But then I decided to email a few people in the television news business and ask them for a few of their pet peeves. It didn’ ...
ShopTalk News Pet Peeves By Doug Drew on Jun. 3, 2010 - 12:00 AM I was going to write an article entitled: The Top Ten Things About Local News That Drive Me Crazy. But then I decided to email a few people in the television news business and ask them for a few of their pet peeves. It didn’ ...
ShopTalk VIP Storytelling By Doug Drew on May. 27, 2010 - 12:00 AM There are three keys to storytelling that every reporter should follow. Every reporter should think VIP when producing his or her story. Visuals Television news is all about pictures, so the visuals should be considered front and ...
ShopTalk Morning Newscasts Need To Be On Topic By Doug Drew on May. 20, 2010 - 12:00 AM One of the main reasons viewers watch a morning newscast is to look smart when they go to work. When viewers get to work and people are talking about the interesting story of the day, they don’t want to look stupid by not kn ...
ShopTalk Lame Tips Kill A Newscast By Doug Drew on May. 13, 2010 - 12:00 AM Too many newscasts are filled with the obvious. It’s one of the biggest reasons viewers are rejecting local news. Viewers tune in to learn something new, and what they often get instead is information they already know and s ...
ShopTalk NYC Car Bomb Affects Local Newscasts By Doug Drew on May. 6, 2010 - 12:00 AM In my column the last two weeks, I have talked a lot about the place national news has in a local newscast, particularly in a morning newscast. Since then, we have had two major national stories break overnight. The first was this ...
ShopTalk National News in Local Newscasts: Readers React By Doug Drew on Apr. 30, 2010 - 12:00 AM In my last article I touched on a rather controversial subject, the place national and international news has in a local newscast. In my article, I suggested that significant breaking national or international news not only has a ...