When preparing for an investigative story, Zekman said she and her team sit down and think about all the ways the stories can be criticized and what can go wrong. She doesn t begin to write the series until after everything all the interviews and editing is done. You have to have all your ducks lined up. You can t wing it. The difference between print and TV investigations, Zekman said, was the difficulty in getting pictures for television.
Pictures are both our difficulty and our strength.
But TV is more powerful because of the pictures, she added. Ellen Shubart is an AWJ member.