Get Your Camera Away From Me, Dog.

A REPORTER AND PHOTOJOURNALIST were covering a murder story when a friend of someone involved in the story approached the news team. He wanted the crew to leave, and he didn't want to be videotaped."Get your camera away from me, dog," he said as he slapped the camera away.Then he walked back to his car and brandished a pistol.The news crew turned this into a story. The lead story for the 5:00 PM newscast.Is this news? Watch the video above. Is it good TV or good journalism, or bo...

Porsha Grant: The Architect of the Newscast.

PORSHA GRANT WAS DOING an internship at a newscast in Georgia when she noticed a woman quietly sitting in the corner. Porsha learned that the woman was the newscast producer, the architect of the show. So she shadowed the woman and learned about the job. Pretty quickly, Porsha's dreams of being an on-air reporter were gone. She realized that she wanted to run a show."You're in charge," Porsha, who now produces for the 4 PM show on 6abc, said yesterday...

David Brown: "There is a Right, Wrong and a Whole Lot of Shades of Grey."

AN ENRAGED GUNMAN mistook David Brown as the person who stabbed his friend. The gunman found David, then just a teenager from West Philly, and pointed a gun at him. When he tried to shoot, the gun jammed. And David ran.Then he wrote about the experience, and that got him interested in journalism. He began writing for the school newspaper at Central High, and continued while attending Duquesne University. One day, while playing football, a medical-transport...