“The First Amendment guarantees a free press. We in the media must make sure it is a fair press.” - Al Neuharth
Set up your interview so the connection, audio and video are as good as you can make them. Otherwise, your message could miss the mark, and you wouldn’t even know it.
The Diversity Institute was established and funded by the Freedom Forum to be a school dedicated to recruiting, training, mentoring and retaining a diverse workforce in the newsrooms of the United States.
Four journalists whose careers have taken off fast tell on Online News Association audience about the traits and tactics that launched them.
Sirens still sounded constantly when I arrived. Ambulances and other emergency vehicles sped past and over down power lines and tree branches. Numb to the noise, survivors sifting what was left of their homes didn’t even give the piercing sounds a second thought.
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I began my journalism career as a photojournalist in 1989, shooting black and white film. Each day I shot and processed rolls of Kodak’s famed Tri-X. I couldn’t imagine photography getting any better than that…and then it did.
In 1999 I got hold of my first digital camera and never looked back. I currently shoot with [...]
A few days ago Diversity Institute Visiting Scholar, Charles Pulliam came to my office and said, “I’m going to Joplin to cover the disaster.”
Initiative has never been a problem for Pulliam, an alum of several Freedom Forum Diversity Institute programs including the Chips Quinn Scholars (2008) and the American Indian Journalism Institute.
Pulliam left Nashville, headed [...]
