Foreword
Bob Schieffer
As it was with so many reporters of my generation, I was a newspaperman before I got into TV and my first newspaper job was working the night police beat on my hometown newspaper, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
These days in television news you will start in a newsroom that is vastly different than the one I started in. Today we have high definition and high tech that makes the business much more than writing and reporting. But those basic skills are the difference-makers. Learning to write, report and present on camera are the most important skills to learn. They are what will get you a career in television.
But back in the days when I began, the police reporters at most newspapers did not write much. They went to the scene ...
Get On Camera, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
