AZ Freelance TV is now the Dubek Media Group

Jun 18, 2015 | Blog, Newsletter

We are excited to announce that AZ Freelance TV has a new name and website: Dubek Media Group (DMG). Rich Dubek started AZ Freelance TV in 2008 after a long career in local television news as an Emmy award winning reporter. Upon the company’s inception, our primary...

Nightcrawler movie spotlights stringers, not Reporters

Oct 28, 2014 | Blog

Let’s get this right out of the way: Jake Gyllenhaal’s character in the new movie, Nightcrawler”, is not a news reporter or for that matter, even a news photographer. He’s a stringer. A stringer is not an employee of any TV station but rather a...

TV News Selfie Hell

Jun 19, 2014 | Blog

I am willing to accept that the “selfie” is now part of life as we know it. I’m not that old. Yet. As a sign of my acceptance, beginning right now, I am no longer using quotes around the word, selfie. But should the selfie be an accepted practice...