Lessons from a Contest: Inside NPPA 2008: Broadcast

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March 03, 2008 Enroll Now
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Course Overview

Title:
Lessons from a Contest: Inside NPPA 2008: Broadcast
Type:
Webinar
Cost:
Free
Originally Broadcast On:
March 03, 2008
Time Estimate:
One hour, 15 minutes

About Conversations

Join us in our virtual studio as Poynter faculty and other veteran journalists discuss issues about the craft and values of the profession. This live videocast also gives you the opportunity to join the conversation, submitting your own questions and responding to poll questions posed by the host.

This is an archived series of conversations that took place during the 2008 National Press Photographers Association Best of Television contest. This Webinar replay consists of five 15-minute conversations between Poynter’s Al Tompkins and photographers and contest judges about what makes a winning broadcast.

Al talks with:
• Veteran freelancer and NPPA judge Tim Griffis on the judging
• John Hyjek from NBC News in Atlanta about pacing, audio ethics, transitions and editing slower
• Judge Bob Gould about footage selection and lessons to be learned
• Emmy-winning Prestoon Rudie of WTSP-TV in Tampa Bay about good storytelling techniques
• Several NPPA judges about memorable videos from the contest

These conversations were held March 3-7, 2008.

What Will I Learn:
  • What impressed the judges
  • Ethical issues that arise in this year's entries
  • How the backpack journalist trend is affecting photojournalism
Who Should Take this Course:

This is for anyone who wants to hear what broadcast judges are looking for in winning entries.

Course Instructor:

Al Tompkins

Al Tompkins is Senior Faculty/Broadcast and Online at The Poynter Institute. He is the author of Aim for the Heart: A Guide for TV Producers and Reporters, which is being used by more than 70 universities as their main broadcast writing textbook, and the Poynter NewsU course Reporting, Writing for TV and the Web: Aim for the Heart. He is also the author of Telling Memorable Video Stories, a video tutorial series at Poynter's NewsU.

Tompkins teaches in seminars at Poynter and teaches at workshops and conferences on the road. He has been a presenter at national conventions for IRE, RTDNA, NABJ, NAHJ, AAJA, Unity, NLGJA, PRNDI and NPPA. Since 1998, he has taught seminars and workshops in 41 states and four countries.

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