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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.