Awesome News

Nick Kosir isn’t just a weatherman, he’s a weather don. Watch him explain what he does to the tune of Make it Rain. He really needs to work on his swagger though. Right now he’s more Shy Ronnie than Weezy.

North Dakota’s Valley News Live invites kids to help report the weather. They were pleasantly surprised by William Hallman, who seems to have done his homework. Now he just needs to stop squinting.

(NSFW: Language) Kai the “home-free” hitchhiker went viral with his ebulient interview after he stopped a crazy driver from doing more harm. Of course, the Gregory Brothers made a song out of it.

A bottle of vodka heats up dramatically when sun streaming through the windows is magnified by its glass, eventually lighting all adjacent bottles and a cardboard display ablaze.

Vancouver’s newsmen and police force take a page out of The Colbert Report with a captivating tale of two inebriated students who did the unthinkable – unthinkable for Canadians, that is.

WTVR CBS 6 must have left residents laughing themselves silly with the world’s best worst weather forecast. This is the one time we’ll count on the weatherman being wrong.

Shortly after an apartment complex in Oklahoma burned down, a survivor was interviewed by a local news channel about her “horrifying” experience. With a name like that, we expected nothing less.

(NSFW) Aaron Sorkin’s HBO series The Newsroom goes behind the scenes of a network news operation, with Jeff Daniels starring as a stressed-out anchorman trying to reinvent his program.

The Guardian takes the fairy tale of the Three Little Pigs and envisions how it might play out today. An amazing commercial that reminds us of the power we all have to influence change.

Brian Niznansky of NBC26 got pranked by his colleagues on the morning show with a double dose of Anchorman – the teleprompter prank combined with Steve Carell’s panicked declaration of love.

How do you explain a meme like Pedobear? This report ironically calls it a bait used by pedophiles to lure victims, then it claims that it’s a way for pedophiles to… identify each other? WTF?

(NSFW: Language) A reporter has a close call with a Spitfire as it flies by. We don’t think we’d react differently with an airplane that close to chopping off our head either. At least this didn’t happen.

Over the course of the last year or so, Phillip Mendonça-Vieira accidentally captured 12,000 screenshots of the home page of the NYT, and decided to put them to good use.

Dateline NBC’s Chris Hansen tells a bike shop owner who allegedly does business with bike thieves to have a bike seat over there in his candidly classic confrontational style.

Saphia Khambalia of City TV was covering Charlie Sheen’s show in Toronto, but she should have covered something else. We’ll just chalk this up to dedication to her work.

Seattle reporter Shomari Stone of KOMO-4 was getting set up to shoot a segment, when he witnessed a violent altercation on the other side of the lens, and steps in to break up the fight himself.

A local news channel is shooting live right where you’re about to pass. Will you change routes or go the same path? If you pick the latter, make sure you don’t make a fool of yourself.

This 10 second video clip has got us thinking that 1) it’s important to read ahead when you’re a news anchor; and 2) schooling the teleprompter guy in punctuation may not be such a bad idea.

Neil Swidey lifts the curtain on a couple of anonymous commenters who frequent news websites. Want more? Check out Swidey’s article, Inside The Mind of the Anonymous Online Poster.

Watch and learn what not to do from this reporter as he attempts, and yes, we mean attempts to demonstrate how easy it is to break into a car and steal your stuff. Don’t quit the day job, man.