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Final Post
I’ve been checking the Covid Act Now website almost daily. At first, I was checking to see if New York would stay green, meaning “on track to contain COVID.” It was green last Sunday meaning we were “on track to contain COVID.” Three states were red, showing an outbreak was active or imminent. But by…
Underwear & Unprecedented
A video that has gotten a lot of attention on social media this past week features people at a public hearing in Palm Beach Florida. County officials heard from citizens before deciding to require people to wear masks to prevent the Coronavirus, and a lot of them had some… interesting things to say. There are…
An Infodemic
“We’re not just fighting an epidemic; we’re fighting an infodemic.” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, 15 February 2020 We’re living through a pandemic and national unrest, and an infodemic is affecting both. What’s that, you ask? The World Health Organization (WHO) defines an infodemic as “an over-abundance of information, some accurate and some not that…
“You mean the riots?”
I picked up another reporting shift at 1010 WINS this weekend. It was my second shift this month, and each time when I was heading in to work, someone asked me if I’d be covering the riots after I said I’d be covering protests. “No, hopefully not,” I answered both times, adding that most of…
Unprecedented Times
I’m pretty sure my head is going to explode from thinking about what’s going on in the world right now and how my small project about journalism can add something of substance to the situation. When the Black Lives Matter protests and riots started happening around the country after the death of George Floyd under…
“Fake News”, Real Injuries
At least once a semester, I tell the students in my broadcast writing class: one of the hardest things to do is decide what to keep and what to leave out. If you have 20 seconds to tell a story, which is sometimes all you get in a newscast, that’s only four or five sentences….
One Pandemic: Two “Realities”
The coronavirus is on everybody’s mind right now. Some people are staying home, leaving only when they must and wearing masks. Others are protesting, without masks, because they can’t get a haircut. Some of the discrepancy has to do with where people live and whether they have suffered a loss. But another key is the…
A Trip Down Memory Lane
This week, I took a trip down memory lane to the community theater I was involved in for a few years, starting in high school. It was a really great place to be on summer nights, and a nice place to make friends. I’ve moved a few times since then and have only visited a…
Lights, Camera, Action
This week, some of the readings and videos have been shedding ‘light’ on … lighting. So, here’s my chance to enlighten you about it all. Previously, I’ve been good to go if my subject’s face isn’t too shadowy and the background isn’t blown out (meaning, way too bright) or their face isn’t blown out. I…
Conti_NU_i_TY
This week was all about continuity. You know, when you’re watching a movie or show and something disappears from the scene that was there before? Or maybe something’s added in. There was a big thing recently about a Starbucks cup showing up in a Game of Thrones episode. Someone apparently put it in there in…
New (to me) Editing Techniques
Previously, my editing experience has been on deadline. Shoot, edit and air a package or two a day. I started with small goals: to make deadline and not have any black holes or jump cuts. Once I met those goals, I worked on adding creative shots, sequences and match cuts when I could. Obviously, you…
Media Dino 