Substack Posts

As much as we were moved by the On the Road piece featured here, what really put us in the holiday spirit was CBS anchor Scott

Doreen Gentzler and the late Jim Vance were a justifiably legendary anchor team at NBC Washington for many years. This blog post from our archives

How loudly to speak is one of the most important and revealing choices you can make on camera. Volume — perhaps more than any other

In case you missed it, we wanted to share this essay from Roger Ebert’s memoir, reprinted by Salon on reports of his death. We were especially moved

The problem that’s really at the heart of most mediocre and uninspiring delivery is that the anchors don’t know what they’re talking about.  For a

We’ve known for a long time that how you sit and stand on air is a big deal, because it an make a big difference

Whether you’re on the desk or in the field, the key to dressing for a newscast is knowing how to put things together so that

Standing to deliver as a solo anchor is one thing.  Working on your feet with a coanchor is its own special challenge.  While it’s not

Standing to deliver a story should increase your power as a communicator and as an anchor. In “real life,” we stand to demand attention when