Mike Piskorski

I truly believe that you can’t have an entire newscast full of bad news…there needs to be a balance. Show viewers that there are good people out there doing great things and that all is not lost. As a journalist and storyteller it’s important to find these stories, but you must tell them in a … More It’s Not All Crime, Blood and Politics

I’ve been fortunate over the course of my career to work on a number of franchise packages for the stations I have worked at. It’s a great break from the grind of breaking and general news. During my time at WTNH I have periodically worked on our weekly segment called What’s Right With Schools. It’s … More Franchise Stories

It’s not just a cheesy song from the 70’s, it’s the direction that local TV news is going. Producing, reporting, shooting and editing also known as MMJ (multimedia journalist). It can be challenging but also very rewarding. My news director came to me mid summer of 2020, just a couple of months after the start … More All By Myself…

This is become more and more popular over the years in our industry. Taking longer format pieces and breaking them down for previewing in earlier newscasts or placing them on social pages. This has become the new world we live in. Using text to tell a story because most viewers on social media pages watch … More Even More Social Videos

About a decade ago, when the shift of how people received their news went from newspapers and tv to the web and social media, journalists who worked in local tv thought they had the upper hand.  “All we have to do is take what appears on tv and put it on the web,” we all … More Video for the Web and Social Media

It’s not every day that your boss allows you to pack up with 70 people, which included 16 teenage baseball players and let you go to a communist country, but in April of 2016 that is exactly what we were able to do. It was a goodwill mission in which a group of parents and … More Cuba

There are many names for stories that are not narrated by a reporter.  They can be called, trackless stories, MMJ pieces, but most videographers name them Nat Packs.  Nat stand for natural, for the reason that most of these stories have natural sound weaved in and out.  These can be very difficult stories to produce, … More Nat packs

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