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Bob Calo

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<a href="http://journalism.berkeley.edu/faculty/calo/">Bob Calo</a> is a senior lecturer at the <a href="http://journalism.berkeley.edu/">Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley</a>, where he codirects the video storytelling and reporting program and is executive editor of Richmond Confidential. During a fellowship at <a href="http://www.hks.harvard.edu/presspol/">Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy</a> he wrote a paper about audience disengagement.

What Football Pep Talks Taught Hyperlocal Reporters

‘Inestimable value comes out of making a human connection visible through something as ordinary as a half-time pep talk by a coach to his players.’