For five months, the Telling the Story podcast has been delayed by current events - both external in the world (COVID-19) and internal in my life (the arrival of my second daughter!). - But it returns now - and with an all-star guest. -

Best Documentary. Best National Feature Documentary. Best Minnesota Made Documentary. Audience Award. Audience Choice. Best Production Design. Best Director. - Film festivals nationwide last year piled accolades on "Love Them First: Lessons From Lucy ...

The most powerful 60 minutes I watched last year came from two storytellers at their best. - John Sharify has won umpteen awards through a reporting career that has spanned decades. Joseph Huerta is assembling an equally impressive resume as a photojo...

Most of my guests on this podcast are in local news, because most of my audience are reporters, photojournalists, and solo video journalists in local news. - But I was reminded again watching the winners of this year's National Edward R.

I think very hard about who to ask as my guest on the Telling the Story podcast, but in recent years I've developed a clear litmus test: - Has this person found a passion within this profession? - Look through my past few interviews,

If only Sam Raimi were on social media. - Then perhaps the acclaimed director of The Evil Dead, A Simple Plan, and the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man series would learn of how one of his earliest movies influenced one of today's most talented journalists.

I began to nice it sometime in the last few years. New reporters or interns would arrive at WXIA-TV in Atlanta, meet me, and ask how long I'd been with the station. - "I'm going on nine years." - Eyes would widen,

If you've read this blog regularly in the past year, you probably already know: - I love being a dad. - We welcomed our daughter nearly nine months ago, and my life has been permanently transformed. So has the desire to balance my time at home with m...

The following podcast episode made me uncomfortable. - I communicate for a living, and my trade is words. I stare frequently at blank cursors on my computer screen because I haven't found the exact word to properly convey an adjective, identifier,

"See the invisible." - Adrienne Broaddus used this phrase early during our interview, and I instantly got it and loved it. She was discussing her approach to covering Hurricane Florence, which she did for a sister station in the Carolinas instead of h...