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See promotional video HEREThe Australian media landscape is set for a shake-up in 2010, with the ABC to launch Australia’s first free-to-air 24-hour television news channel.The channel aims to provide constant coverage of breaking local and internation…

See promotional video HEREThe Australian media landscape is set for a shake-up in 2010, with the ABC to launch Australia’s first free-to-air 24-hour television news channel.The channel aims to provide constant coverage of breaking local and internation…

From: Poynter.org Al Tompkins takes a look at a News Director who stands up for his right to shoot a presser. When Lane Kiffin, the University of Tennessee football coach, was about to have a press conference to announce he was stepping down, unique restrictions were placed on TV cameras. “In this YouTube video, you [...]

From: b-roll.net FORUM 27 year old, John Billingsley, a Photojournalist at News 13 (WLOS) in Ashville, NC, “died early this morning [1/17/2010] in Charlotte [,NC] after he fell into an air shaft at the Omni Hotel where he was a guest,” according to his station’s website. There are not a lot of details – even [...]

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From: The Washington Post “Technology has made the job of covering remote disasters somewhat easier… Some TV reporters carried laptop-size satellite transmitters called BGANs, which enabled them to send near broadcast-quality video from the streets. But some reporters had to improvise, using car batteries to power cameras and microphones.” What, no photographers? To any of [...]

As an element of a daily News team you are often exposed to some events or incidents that you may find challenge your emotions and feelings.Its not atypical for even practiced operators to become fatigued by images they are exposed to, it’s just that…