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A little help? Someone has asked me what to expect as a pay range for a newscast associate producer/writer in market 155-160ish. Candidate is just out of school and this would be a first job. I'm hazarding a guess that it might be around $25K. Low? High? I'm way outa my element here but I...

As I've progressed in life's journey to my current status as a Man of a Certain Age....what larger failing could there be for a photographer than eyesight. Ok..Ok...lots of others could be worse.....but... As the diopter in my viewfinder slowly made its counterclockwise rotation (so symbolic...

Another MOS topic reminded me of something I thought I'd throw out as a tip of sorts that has worked for me when assigned the onerous task of one-manning some MOS. 1st time I used it was after an incident when three local police officers were killed in an ambush. I was sent out to get "MOS...

Gonna be in Cincinnati tomorrow for Monday Night Football. Any Cincinnatians from these parts going to be there?

Wondering what fellow ENGers (not EFPers) use for small field monitors. I have two primary needs. 1.) I want to be able to mount it on my HPX2000 2.) I want to be able to position my GoPro without having to break out said HPX2000 FYI even though the HPX2000 has a flip-out monitor, I want...

Sigh....end of an era for me. Every Friday night in the fall for thirty years I've been on a football field somewhere in the High School hotbeds of NE Pa, Cincinnati, Ohio and Western Pa. I was looking forward to year 31 and figured I'd keep going until the body said "No Mas!" Turns out it...

Our station just ordered 10 new news vehicles. A good sign? I would think, at some level at least. When I heard we were looking at Chevy after I don't know how many generations of Explorers, I voiced a preference for a diesel Suburban. I seem to carry more equipment than anybody. I do...

Actually, I want to ride. And thought I'd demo the GoPro HD camera as I took the scenic route to complete my most mundane of tasks. And in case anyone's wondering: "Sherlock Holmes" with Robert Downey, Jr. and I loved it. _YyibIK11y4

Started drifting here on another thread so I thought I'd start a new one. Reading what I had written about lunch hours and OT and penalties reminded me that once upon a time as a young'un in the biz, I'd think this was all just so much petty BS and how I was just happy to be working in the biz...

When an anchor team celebrates their 20th year together, it's a rare thing (at least here in Pittsburgh) and out come the old.....(OOOLLLDDDDDDD!!!!!!)....promos to see how things once were. So our website put the old promos online for the perusal of our viewers. On one of the...

Friend of a friend kind of thing. A reporter I work with called me yesterday looking to help a friend who wants to document an event in NYC in May. I don't have all the details yet (later today perhaps) other than I'm not going to be able to do it. When I get some details, I'll add them...

anyone know a quick post solution in the AVID Newscutter or XpressPro environment to "flatten" a fisheye image? I've tried the 3D "ball" effect hoping to reverse animation but didn't get it. looked to rescale from the corners to either stretch them out or enlarge (to get rid of obvious...

Ok....I suppose I should have paid attention during all the other discussions but with rapidly changing tech, I don't really want to search for old info. Here's the deal....a friend of mine who is with a local law enforcement agency with a pretty good budget is looking to pick up 2 new cameras...

Wage scale set by Dr. Freud, I presume? http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/tfr/1308586074.html

i used to defend my "look" ( no meaningless walks, no blair witch swishes just for the hell of it, rock steady video, meaningful handheld, well-lit and composed....i have to defend this????) by saying i want it to look like dateline.....or network's nightly news. i'm starting to think i won't...