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    Part of the video series: How to Be a TV News Reporter

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    Summary: Learn how to dress as a TV news reporter with expert journalism advice from an experienced broadcast journalist in this free television career video clip.

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    By Bill Albin
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    Bill Albin is currently the head reporter at WLAJ 53 in Lansing, Michigan. He attended Specks Howard Broadcasting school in Detroit, Michigan.read more

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    "BILL ALBIN: Hello, I'm Bill Albin. And on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to teach you what you need to know to be a local news reporter. In this clip, we're going to talk about dressing appropriately as a reporter. Now as you see right now, I'm wearing a suit but I don't always wear a suit. In some cases, you want to dress more for a specific situation. If I'm going to see the governor, a suit is an appropriate thing to wear. However, if I'm going to see dock workers, I might want to dress down a little bit. Not that there's anything to dress down about dock workers, but a dock worker doesn't go to work--he doesn't pull things off of ships wearing a suit. So if I'm going to do a story from there, I'll probably want to put on jeans and a hard hat because it's more appropriate to that particular situation. Also a reporter and photographers spend a lot of time walking around in a lot of different situations. One very important piece of apparel for any journalist is the right kind of shoes. This may seem a little silly but I rarely wear dress shoes when I'm working. I have to stomp through mud; I have to stomp through snow; I have to climb over gravel. It would be silly of me to put on a pair of nice dress shoes when I would just ruin them every week. So as a reporter, it's important to wear something comfortable, something you can walk around in, something that won't be easily damaged, things like boots or comfortable sneakers. Don't be obvious about it. Don't have your white Nike, whatever, but have something that's more comfortable and more appropriate to the situation you're going to be placing yourself in."

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