TV Program
Saturday, March 15, 2008 - 9:00 AMTV News: Growing Professionally and Staying Relevant
TV news is changing fast. How it is delivered and what constitutes news is changing along with it. How will you the storyteller adapt to new technologies and new audiences? Get a fresh perspective on the building blocks of TV news storytelling and learn how your professional peers are surviving and thriving. Come watch outstanding stories by great photographers. Learn some new tricks. Diversify your skills so you can be a better job candidate in today’s newsroom.
The day of workshops will include building the essential skills of story telling and how to excel as reporter-photographer teams. Learn how to apply new tools to story telling. What is it like to be a working “VJ” in the newsroom? Discuss how profit and efficiency have eroded the public service mission of local TV news? How photographers and reporters make a difference? Learn how to land that job from a panel of chief photographers who will tell what skills and attitudes they are looking for.
Have your stories critiqued by the best in the business.
Join us for a great day of watching stories learning and talking about TV news storytelling.
Storytelling with Sean Filburn
WBFF-TV Baltimore
Despite numerous NPPA awards, an Emmy nomination and the admiration of his peers to his credit, Sean never forgets how fortunate he is to meet and tell stories of the unique and memorable people he meets.
Sean works at one of the great stations in news photography, WBFF in Baltimore. Sean is a contender for the Region 3 POY and Region 3 TV Clip Chair. Always remembering his love of still photography, since 2001 Sean’s career at WBFF has evolved from production to editing, and from editing training to shooting news full time. With NPPA awards, an Emmy nomination and other awards to his credit, Sean never forgets how fortunate he is to meet and tell the stories of such unique and memorable people.
Working the “VJ” way
Adam Francis
WKBW-TV Buffalo
What would you do if you were asked to “do it all”?
Adam Francis is a working VJ at WKBW in Buffalo. Adam will tell us why he likes doing it all, what he’s learned about the process and what to do about what is rapidly becoming a standard job description at many stations. What if you saw it as an opportunity to do your best work as a modern “VJ’ photojournalist? Adam Francis is a working VJ at WKBW in Buffalo. He’s been shooting, reporting and putting stories together for WKBW’s daily newscast…and he likes it. Adam will tell us why he’s comfortable doing it all, what he’s learned about the process and what to do about what is rapidly becoming the standard job description at many stations.
DEADLINES AND DOLLARS
A Documentary, 2008
Karin Schwanbeck Quinnipiac University
This documentary looks at how profit and efficiency have eroded the public service mission of local TV news and how it is challenging hard-working reporters and photographers like never before. Viewers may complain that local TV news is too negative and focused on crime, accidents and fires, but they need to understand that it’s not always easy for reporters and photographers to cover stories that actually impact viewers’ lives when the system is rigged against them.
Karin Schwanbeck is a former TV reporter of 12 years and has been teaching journalism for 16 years. She’s currently at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn. Her writing has appeared in NPPA’s News Photographer magazine and other journalism publications. She received a Morris Berman NPPA Citation in 2001. Karin will discuss her research, writing and other efforts towards a better understanding of what it will take to survive in a modern TV news operation.
Isadore Bleckman
Veteran news cameraman. CBS News.
“Izzy” Bleckman, has witnessed a lifetime of news, newsmakers and interesting people worldwide. Most recently he spent 13 years “On the Road” with Charles Kuralt and the CBS Sunday Morning Show. His career spanned shooting film newsreels for Movietone to using today’s digital equipment. Izzy will share some great stories, teach us all some tricks and talk about what is key to attaining and maintaining success.
Getting and Keeping a Job
A panel discussion about how to get hired and how to set goals to live and excel by.
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Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Chris Usher graduated from Indiana University at Bloomington with a degree in Journalism. Usher spent several years as a newspaper photographer, (Troy Daily News; Richmond Palladium Item; Louisville Courier Journal; Miami Herald; Orlando Sentinel ) before going freelance and moving to Washington, DC in 1990.