Chris's Broadcast Writing Blog: Nightmares of a Journalist: Volume II

Chris, what you may lack as a videographer you make up for you your blog writing! First of all, that is a mistake that many people make, including myself, when it comes to using the camera. I’m sure that you learned your lesson, and it’s like Steve Parr says; if you are ever going to make mistakes in your career, now’s the time to do it.

I have to point out though; you followed all of the steps perfectly when it came to trying to fix the problem, turning on the light, playing with the iris; everything aside from checking the ND filter. I’m sure you’re feature is awesome!

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It was a nightmare.

It was the second nightmare of my young reporting career. The first was when my interview, James Gordon of the NDP, took a phone call when I was interviewing him live, LIVE on our web broadcast for the election. The story is in this blog.

The second was doing my feature…