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Possible Leadership Role
retruitment, training, who i would look for, video qualified
I am all for attractive people presenting the news. But believe there are attractive and intelligent people out there, who are experts in things other than J school, who can be discovered and nurtured into potent orginal storytellers. I know how to help make that happen. In short, I would look first for orginial and charismatic people, not would-be Dianne Sawyers, and teach them the production skills to use their expertise in a compelling way. I am not against J school grads at all, and some of them may be just what we need, but it is often the case that a rookie reporter with just one years’s experience is already shaped into a carbroad cutout of local news, whose orginial talent is obscured.