News 4 employee Jim Iovino was with us in class today!
At the start of class, he brought up this video of News 4 weatherman Pat Collins interviewing “Sandwich Girl“:
- On that day, every other channel is covering the storm — how could they make it interesting? Or, at the very least, MORE interesting than the other guy?
Iovino suggested finding an angle to any story that you don’t think anyone else has seen or thought of:
- Journalism is always changing, so make it interesting!
- It’s good, basic journalism
- It starts with the questions, it starts with the story
Capital Games is a NBC Washington blog dedicated to finding and “covering the biggest personalities in DMV sports” that Iovino works on, too.
Advice on your clips:
- Strip it down to the bare minimum — don’t add unnecessary banners/bookmarks, anchors or music
- By saving your viewer time, you’ll help to ensure that they’ll come back to your Web site
- “Just like a good picture can speak for itself, video can do that, too.”
Lastly, Iovino put out his thoughts on the future:
- The newspaper isn’t as necessary as the electronic version of it — one screen is better than many pages
- Professor Klein even asked the class who doesn’t think that newspapers will last much longer. A lot of people raised their hands. Then, he asked which of us personally subscribed to a major newspaper. One person kept their hand raised
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