ABSTRACT
This chapter offers Lee Powell's encouragement and wisdom about the path to being a reporter, a broadcaster, an editor or a media professional. Powell is a journalist because of what's revealed when words meld with images and sound. He started out as a newspaper reporter with a pen and pad. Great writing can reveal a character and re-create a place, but it's a limiting medium without pictures and sound. Still, newspapers did words and television did pictures. Around 2004, it all got scrambled as dial-up internet faded and broadband took hold. Now newspapers were in the video business. Video storytelling is a visceral medium, revealing joy, anger, reflection and tears. Powell picked up a camera at The Dallas Morning News and started supplementing his print stories with sights and sounds. He taught himself how to edit. He had to learn the visual vocabulary of storytelling with pictures.
