The television stations has millions of parts and the television station cant work without it. When directors are looking for new people they want people they want people that are curious and have good work ethic, desires life time learning, masters the basic reportorial skills, good TV skills, some web skills, and plays well with workers.
1. Smarts: They must be interested in the world and demonstrate the breadth of those interests. Not just smart…but “smarts”…bright, resourceful, clever, energetic, adaptable, alert.
2. Passion: They must care about the “business of journalism”…and speak to integrity, fairness, inclusiveness and the all around editorial (and economic) success of the enterprise.
3. Presence: They should project ease, poise, self-assurance…in their writing and in their on-air performance. (Or, if a newbie, at least in the interview.)If they have the first three, they make the first cut. Then we hire them based on:
4. People Skills: Reporting, news gathering and broadcasting are team/contact sports…they must care about and like people…both the people they work with and the people they report on. They must demonstrate that they can build relationships…be trustworthy…possess a sense of obligation to community (work and public). The director Wally help people who wants to become a report and other people who want to be directors.
1. Smarts: They must be interested in the world and demonstrate the breadth of those interests. Not just smart…but “smarts”…bright, resourceful, clever, energetic, adaptable, alert.
2. Passion: They must care about the “business of journalism”…and speak to integrity, fairness, inclusiveness and the all around editorial (and economic) success of the enterprise.
3. Presence: They should project ease, poise, self-assurance…in their writing and in their on-air performance. (Or, if a newbie, at least in the interview.)If they have the first three, they make the first cut. Then we hire them based on:
4. People Skills: Reporting, news gathering and broadcasting are team/contact sports…they must care about and like people…both the people they work with and the people they report on. They must demonstrate that they can build relationships…be trustworthy…possess a sense of obligation to community (work and public). The director Wally help people who wants to become a report and other people who want to be directors.
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