Newspaper veteran Eddie Robinette sits where it all converges. Journalists these days have to know all three to be journalists. The cable-TV station had decided to go live from a county supervisors' meeting where an important but complicated decision had been made. The TV reporter set up quickly and began discussing the issue. Then she turned to the Herald-Tribune's county reporter, who rattled the implications of the decision off the top of his head.
Newspaper reporters undergo training in broadcast basics.
It is just enough to show them the production process and teach them to write voice-overs and VO bites. So far, the added skills and duties have not brought journalists additional pay, Robinette says. We've done a little vocal training and have given some of them stage tips on appearance. Bloomberg beat reporters take the interview subject into a TV studio and work with a multimedia reporter to craft the interview. Then you make a taped interview for the archive.