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Visiting Professor - Day 7 - Rest
And on the seventh day… I tried to rest. It’s hard to for me to relax. This has been a great week. I’ve enjoyed being inside a...
Visiting Professor - Day 6 - Outside the Wall
Saturdays are quiet days at television stations. The newsroom has a skeleton crew and the sound of the scanner echoes up to the sales...
Visiting Professor - Day 5 - Creativity at Work
“They didn’t even know these jobs existed,” Temple graduate Alex Petyerak said of his classmates. Alex is referring to the creative...
Visiting Professor - Day 4 - Don't be afraid.
WPTV-TV Local Sales Manager Cheryl Beers believes newly graduated students need to limit their expectations. She believes the secret to...
Visiting Professorship - Day 3 - Be Lovable
“If you are lovable, they will like you the best.” Today, I met Lloyd Bucher, the General Manager of WPTV-TV. He is a very energetic...
Visiting Professor - Day 2- Get out of the Way
“Don’t get in the way,” is the sage advice of Bernadette O’Grady, Programming and Public Relations manager at WPTV-TV. When I asked her...
Visiting Professorship - Day 1- Stepping into the "Dark Side"?
I've spent most of my working adult life inside a television station. Even when I had my own business my office was in a television...
Trapped in the 4X3 or B&W
“There are no good old days,” admitted Weather Channel reporter Scott Newell. Scott enjoys the flexibility of modern video technology. ...
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks
Ageism is all around us and sometimes we don't even know it. Advertisers know it. Media organizations know it. Workplaces deny it. ...
Doug Pederson's Rules of Leadership or How to be a Husky
- Huskies run because they want to run. - I share with you Philadelphia Eagles coach Doug Pederson’s six points of leadership. Practice...