Just finished up my eight weeks in local television news, interning for WGAL-TV, our region's number one station. My internship had its good and bad moments, but it was mostly nice to be on the inside of a completely different medium. The station was definitely a well-oiled machine that had blanket coverage of a large viewing area. On to the bullet points:
-A photographer loses his knees and back first.
-Every story should try to hit the heart, health or wallet. If you get all three, you're on to something big.
-Don't speed in the news team van.
-That camera tripod is ridiculously heavy to lug around, something like 40 pounds.
-A car crash is rarely newsworthy unless it closes a major road, then it is.
-A lot of work goes into that minute long clip on television.
-Going live is difficult, especially if it's breaking news.
-Journalism is about to get much better or much worse.
-The good news is that paid overtime actually exists in journalism.
-Photographers do very impressive work getting those shots that go along with a story when it's read on air.
-A bad interview's better than none.
-Great journalists can't predict the future, just report the past very quickly.
In all, learned quite a bit. If anyone there happens to be reading this (quite unlikely), thanks for having me.
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WGAL, News 8, Coverage You Can Count On, Susquehanna Valley
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