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Fred Shook
Fred Shook is a consulting scriptwriter and researcher for Terranova Pictures' productions and related products. 

Mr. Shook is a television news advisor and trainer for a wide cross section of U.S. and international clients. He emphasizes compelling writing, reporting, presentation and production methods; in-depth newscast analysis; market evaluations; and news marketing and promotion. 

Mr. Shook has conducted more than 300 television news seminars for U.S. and international clients, working with reporters, photojournalists, producers, editors, and management to implement more effective storytelling approaches and communication practices.
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Mr. Shook established the broadcast journalism program at Colorado State University, one of the 24 programs nationally accredited by the American Council on Education for Journalism and Mass Communication. His professional experience encompasses television reporting, writing, production, television news photography, video editing, and production. For the past 19 years, Mr. Shook has taught and worked nationally and internationally as a television writer, producer, consultant, and as a director and editor for commercial television organizations, corporations, and government agencies, including work in Germany, Canada, New Zealand, Fiji, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sri Lanka, and Africa.

He has been a member of the faculty to the annual National Press Photographers Association Television News Video Workshop, which serves an international clientele, since 1984. Mr. Shook has written Television News Writing: Captivating an Audience, Longman Inc., White Plains, New York (1994); Television Field Production and Reporting, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., White Plains, New York (third edition 2000); The Broadcast News Process (co-authored with Dan Lattimore and Jim Redmond), Morton Publishing Company, Denver, Colorado (sixth edition 2001); and The Process of Electronic News Gathering, Morton Publishing Company, Denver, Colorado, 1982.
Mr. Shook has written for "Discovery News," a science-based news magazine program airing on the Discovery Channel; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); Agency for International Development (AID); Soil Conservation Service (SCS); Department of Health and Human Services; and the Consortium for International Development. 

Recognized by Sigma Delta Chi as "Journalism Educator of the Year" in Colorado, he was also twice chosen "Journalism Professor of the Year." He also is recipient of the National Press Photographer's Association J. Winton Lemen National Fellowship Award for his contributions to television photojournalism. 

Before joining the faculty at Colorado State, Mr. Shook was a news writer, reporter, photographer, editor, and producer at KMBC-TV in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to joining KMBC, he was a scriptwriter, cinematographer, and editor with the Department of Extension Radio-Television at Kansas State University. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism/broadcasting from Kansas State University and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Kansas.  



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