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Adapt or die

Adapt or die

Natural selection favors deft jack-of-all-trades in evolving newsrooms.

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Work like you mean business

Work like you mean business

Your career is an enterprise – so treat it like one.

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We’re all in this together

We’re all in this together

By Dan Small After a long career in television and even more years as a freelancer for magazines and newspapers, with the encouragement of my good friend, the late Tony Dean, three years ago I launched a weekly hourlong radio show with a business partner and co-host, Judy Nugent. If anyone had told me then  Read more »

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No photographer left behind

No photographer left behind

By William H. Mullins About 25 years ago, I learned an invaluable wildlife photography lesson when I had the good fortune to partner with a couple of seasoned photographers preparing to work a ferruginous hawk nest in the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in southwest Idaho. James P. Blair, a National Geographic  Read more »

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TV can’t reshoot first impression

TV can’t reshoot first impression

Shows too often blow it with boorish behavior.

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Small gestures pay big dividends

Small gestures pay big dividends

Editor’s note: Following is the conclusion of photojournalist Christopher Batin’s two-part article on making the most of FAM – or familiarization – trips. Part 1 discussed pre-trip preparations.

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The road to FAMs and fortune

The road to FAMs and fortune

An outdoor writer’s guide to profitable familiarization trips

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Good, bad and healthy TV images

Good, bad and healthy TV images

Bulging belts. Straining buttons. Moans and groans. Whispered cliches … “Ah till ya wot … no doubt about it … for all ya folks at home …” Hosts dwarfing most NFL players. Expert hunters huffing and puffing up a ladder to an elevated shooting shack yards from a bait pile. Anglers grunting and gasping while  Read more »

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Journalist gains perspective from other side of interview

Journalist gains perspective from other side of interview

If the interviewer doesn’t understand a topic he or she asked me about, how will the readers, listeners or viewers?

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The eyes have it

The eyes have it

Improve your photography by observing this simple, cardinal rule

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