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Cry for me pt 2
In a previous post about interviews done with a woman who was an on-camera wreck over the vehicle accident deaths of her loved ones, we asked: And this benefits the audience… how? WXIA’s Jaye Watson...
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Addition by subtraction
On Friday, there was a shooting and kidnapping in SE Atlanta. Two stations managed to get cameras to the scene, WGCL and WXIA. Their approaches to the story were completely different, and quite...
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Hey- that’s not my name…
There were a few surprises during our top-secret day-long visit to WXIA Monday. Two of them stood out. The first was the climate. It was odd hearing day-laboring reporters and photographers speak of...
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Goofus and Gallant
"Joltin'" Marc Pickard, Retiree Marc Pickard retired from WXIA in September. It was bittersweet for all of us. Pickard is a gifted storyteller, and a guy who probably never had an undignified moment...
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Stalking Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen with WXIA's Jaye Watson, 4.21.11 Charlie Sheen was in town. It got Big Deal treatment from WXIA and competing Atlanta TV stations. Prior to his stage show at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre, Jaye...
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Hate mail
Nick Johns with Jaye Watson I have a perverse affection for hate mail. I wish I got more of it. Conversely, hate mail seems to gnaw at the soul of Jaye Watson, the reporter whose WXIA desk adjoins...
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News cycle, recycled
The Cronut We think we’re so smart. Here we are, finger-poppin,’ pixel-packin’ 21st century multiplatform news media delivery entities, all fresh and hot like a doughnut-shaped croissant. And yet —...
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