Category Archives: Videography

News photographers scramble for Rafferty pic

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Larry Cornies

Great news photography is often about split-second timing. Such was the case outside a  Woodstock, Ont., courthouse yesterday as Michael Rafferty, accused of first-degree murder in the death of eight-year-old Tori Stafford, made an application for a change of venue … Continue reading →

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Teneycke, Harper and managing news media

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Larry Cornies

The resignation of Kory Teneycke as Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s director of communications brings to at least five the number of people tasked with managing the information flow between the Prime Minister’s Office and the news media since early 2006. … Continue reading →

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Al Tompkins’ 10 commandments of shooting video

Posted on July 21, 2009 by Larry Cornies

Back in the mid-1980s, when I was in graduate school, journalism students shot video on three-quarter-inch tape, using (if they were lucky) electronic newsgathering (ENG) cameras that weighed in at about 13 or 14 kilograms — even without the cumbersome … Continue reading →

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