Chapter 1 Telling Stories

Regina McCombs

Faculty for Multimedia and Mobile, The Poynter Institute Additional material provided by Stanley Heist, Kathy Kieliszewski, Kobré, Josh Meltzer, David Weintraub, and Suzanne White

DOI: 10.4324/9780240814667-1

Train Jumping: A Desperate Journey. The photographer rode the rails and the reporter provided a voice-over for this harrowing tale of immigrants trying to reach the “promised land.”

(Photo by Gary Coronado/Palm Beach Post))

This chapter is about the many ways to tell a story and serves as an introduction to videojournalism as it relates to nonfiction storytelling. Videojournalism is not reality ...

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