Booking and vetting expert sources
Vice President of Booking and Editorial for MSNBC Jesse Rodriguez guides you through how to identify, vet and book expert sources for your stories.
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Tips for live TV interviews
CNBC Senior Media and Entertainment Reporter Julia Boorstin breaks down best practices for interviewing VIPs during live television interviews.
How to conduct an interview for a digital profile
Maya Eaglin, digital reporter for NBC News’ Snapchat show “Stay Tuned,” shares how to prepare for and conduct an interview for a digital profile.
Staying safe while covering civil unrest
Vice President of Global Security of NBC News Sallie Norris goes over best practices for how to stay safe while reporting on civil unrest.
Safely covering wildfires
NBC News Senior Coordinating Producer Al Henkel discusses the dangers of covering a fire and how to be prepared before going out to cover a wildfire. If you are going out to cover a fire, make sure you bring the right gear, wear all your personal protective equipment and get properly trained.
What do you need to know before covering a hurricane or other severe weather events?
Learn what to do when you are dispatched to cover severe weather like a hurricane.
‘Troubled,’ ‘impoverished,’ ‘lawless’: How media stereotypes continue to dehumanize Haiti
U.S. news coverage of President Jovenel Moise’s assassination often repeats racist tropes and ignores Haiti’s long history. It’s part of a long pattern of misrepresentation in the press.
How do I make a broadcast story more dynamic?
CNBC’s Jane Wells explains how she made an economic story visually exciting and unique.
The basics of business reporting
Melissa Lee, anchor of CNBC’s “Fast Money” and “Options Action,” explains why there is a business angle to every news story.
What are stock indexes?
CNBC On Air Stocks Editor Bob Pisani explains stock indexes and how journalists report on them.
Behind the Story: Broadcasting the Olympics
Learn about the team effort needed to broadcast the 2020 Olympics from Tokyo.
Why reporters shouldn’t “stick to sports” when covering the Olympics
Sports journalism isn’t just about the competition on the field, but should instead center the lives of athletes and their activism around issues of race, class, gender.
Career Spotlight: In the Director’s Chair
“NBC Nightly News” Director Christian Alicea takes us behind the scenes of the iconic broadcast.
Behind the Story: Take a tour of NBC News’ Long Island City facility
Come see the home of NBC News’ field operations and engineering teams.
Many journalists of color are creating a niche through freelancing. Here’s what they’ve learned.
Freelancing has become a staple, particularly for journalists from minoritized backgrounds who are seeking flexibility, creative freedom and entrance to spaces they’ve often been denied.
Why basic journalistic standards matter
Marian Porges, former Senior Vice President of News Standards, NBCU News Group, shares with NBCU Academy how news standards like accuracy, fairness and transparency are key to news organizations’ reputations.
Tips for field producing
Learn how to field produce and make sure you have everything you need before getting into the edit bay.
It’s not enough to cover climate change. Reporters must center climate justice.
Climate change results from systems that devalue the earth and its inhabitants. Telling stories about climate justice means learning to care about the most impacted communities.
Lighting and sound in the field
Here are tips and tricks to get the best sound and lighting possible in the field.
Conecta Arizona: How a WhatsApp group redefined journalism on the border
“The pandemic gave us the opportunity to innovate and connect, to discover those areas that we had neglected with traditional journalism,” writes founder Maritza L. Félix.
Behind the Story: Covering wildfires out west
See what it’s like covering wildfires as a news crew.
Trans executive editor Gina Chua says personnel is ‘only halfway’ to true newsroom diversity
Chua, recently named executive editor of Reuters and now one of the most high-profile transgender leaders in media, says journalism also needs more inclusion in “how we write and how we reflect the world.”
Marty Two Bulls and Lalo Alcaraz didn’t win the Pulitzer. But they don’t draw for the judges.
After the Pulitzer Board chose not to award a prize for editorial cartooning this year, two of the finalists spoke to NBCU Academy about the decision and the challenges for editorial cartoonists of color.
Career Spotlight: Electronic News Gathering (ENG) Photographer
Learn about the career of a CNBC Electronic News Gathering (ENG) photographer.
