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Technical problems we all secretly predicted Watching the carefully thought out newsroom election night game plan quickly disintegrate Being assigned to a new candidate at the last second after [...]

Some Of The Silliest Stories I Covered In TV News... Farmers worrying the government might tax them for cows passing gas

Don't take it personally when reporters ask tough questions.

10 reasons a reporter will ignore your news release

  The psychologist we sent to appear on a morning TV news show did not expect the anchor by her side to start the interview by asking about her plans for Christmas dinner. We scheduled her [...]

During media training, participants shared with us these eight negative statements about news media.

Handling reporters who interrupt you before you finish an answer Adjusting facial gestures that send negative messages to reporters and viewers Managing questions that make someone animated and [...]

Instead of some of these PR pros seeing this as an opportunity to question conventional wisdom and, at least for a split second consider a change of course, they decided the better approach was [...]

I have often heard some people argue there’s a media conspiracy to get certain politicians elected or to push certain agendas. Yes, some news organizations have gained reputations for being [...]

This is basic media training in a modern world where about the only device still unable to record you is a refrigerator.