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10 Things I Miss Most About Covering Election Nights As A Reporter

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Technical problems we all secretly predicted Watching the carefully thought out newsroom election night game plan quickly disintegrate Being assigned to a new candidate at the last second after conducting weeks of research on another one Wondering what genius decided to assign several crews to work under tight deadlines on the same laptop editor Watching […]

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You Stay Classy! San Diego Organization Said Media Training Helped In The Following 15 Ways

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Handling reporters who interrupt you before you finish an answer Adjusting facial gestures that send negative messages to reporters and viewers Managing questions that make someone animated and furious Taking more control of interviews Identifying whom on staff is your best spokesperson and sometimes the best person is unexpected Honing and getting back to key messages

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Some People Called Our Ragan.com Article Mean-Spirited And Claimed We Have No Idea What We’re Talking About

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Instead of some of these PR pros seeing this as an opportunity to question conventional wisdom and, at least for a split second consider a change of course, they decided the better approach was to depict me as an empty-headed jerk who must have stolen his awards and graduated by mistake from one of the country’s best journalism schools.

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Let Me Tell You Why There’s No Real Media Conspiracy

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I have often heard some people argue there’s a media conspiracy to get certain politicians elected or to push certain agendas. Yes, some news organizations have gained reputations for being either liberal or conservative. But I scoff at the idea that multiple news organizations and an invisible underground association of journalists conspire secretly together to

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