Articles and Reporting Tips
These reporting tips were originally presented at the AMS Broadcast Conference in Washington DC on August 5, 2005. Contact Paul Gross, WDIV-TV, Detroit, paulg@wdiv.com, or Dr. Kris Wilson, Emory Journalism program, Kris.Wilson@emory.edu, for more information about these materials. All articles unless otherwise noted are in PDF (.pdf) format.
Reporting Tips
General Broadcast Reporting Tips
Producing your Story
Finding and Pitching Stories
The Half-Hour Documentary
Storytelling Strategies
Articles
The Broadcast Meteorologist as Station Scientist
by Dr. Ronald McPherson, AMS
Broadcast meteorologists are often the only people in television newsrooms who have a background in
science. That makes them qualified not just to deliver the weather, but also to provide more science news
to the viewing audience.
Weather Reporting as Beat Journalism
by Scott M. Libin, Poynter Online
When the May rating period coincides with peak season for severe weather it produces
a near perfect storm: Conditions are ideal for both the best and worst of local
television news around the country.
Forecast: New Role For Weathercaster?
By Barbara Cochran,
2004 Communicator
With most surveys showing that weather is the top reason for tuning in to local newscasts, meteorologists
are playing significant roles for their stations in building audience and establishing a strong news image.
Increasingly, how a station performs on a breaking weather story can shift standings within a market. A
key ingredient in the effectiveness of the coverage is the credibility of the meteorologist.
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