'Broadcasting' Category
The Accidental Murrow
My friend Ron won a Murrow Award last month. For those of you who don’t know about such things, the Edward R. Murrow Award is one of the most prestigious honors one can earn. It’s up there with a Peabody, and above an Emmy. What’s unusual about his achievement is that he [...]
The 90-Trick Pony
Back in my teevee and radio days, I worked with some amazing people. Many are still contributing to the business, and everyone had something important to share. Some of those lessons, however, were by negative example.
We’ll call him Carl. Carl was a journeyman, bouncing from station to station in town. He [...]Fuming Mad
Gas prices are up. Yes. But manufacturing a story about an increase in gasoline theft has me fuming at my former profession. This morning, it just happens to be focused on Good Morning America’s Bianna Golodryga and her producers. Lazy, lazy, lazy all the way around.
I’m fishing for a transcript right [...]10 Years Gone
10 years ago this very morning, I was working in the news business. I was working the nightside reporting shift for the ABC affiliate here in Birmingham. I was fishing around for a story, to replace the one that I knew someone was going to do.
A couple of days before, a local middle [...]Un Conventional
South by Deep South won’t be my first foray into unconferencing. It will be my biggest, though.
Years ago, I’d made some friends in an online forum for broadcast journalists. One of them, Randy Steinman, was coming through Birmingham on the way to the beach, and thought it would be neat to have lunch. [...]
