Tag Archives: Al Tompkins

New tools for journalists will change postsecondary programs

After a week of intensive training at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla., my thinking about how we train journalists has changed in some ways and remained firm in others. I became convinced of the Poynter faculty’s argument that … Continue reading

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Al Tompkins’ 10 commandments of shooting video

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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