Here Comes Everybody – Part 2

Today is Day 2 of the Travel Channel Academy in DC.

We’re at Travel Channel HQ, and Travel Channel’s CEO Jonathan Sichel addressed the group to explain how important and central the VJ ‘army’ is the Travel Channel’s future online video plans.

One place the best VJ’s work is showing up is here.

Click on some of these travel videos.  Travel Channel Studios is commissioning our grads to produce these – and we’re just at the beginning.

Meanwhile, some scenes from today’s edit training by Drew Tierney.

Drew has been training with us since VOA! And his wife, Laurel has been training with us since Palestine Broadcast Corp in (ready?) 1994!

It’s a family affair

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Michael Rosenblum

For more than 30 years, Michael Rosenblum has been on the cutting edge of the digital video journalism revolution. During this time, he has lead a drive for video literacy, and the complete rethinking of how television is made and controlled. His work has included: The complete transitioning of The BBC's national network (UK) to a VJ-driven model, starting in 2002. The complete conversion of The Voice of America, the United State's Government's broadcasting agency, (and the largest broadcaster in the world), from short wave radio to television broadcasting and webcasting using the VJ paradigm (1998-present). The construction of NYT Television, a New York Times Company, and the largest producer of non-fiction television in the US. Rosenblum was both the founder and President of NYT TV, (all based on this paradigm (1996-1998). The President and Founder of Video News International, a global VJ-driven newsgathering company, with more than 100 journalists around the world. (1993-1996). Other clients include Spectrum News, Verizon and CBS News.

2 Comments
  • kenny December 04, 2009

    hey- that’s my video on the bahamas! woo hoo!

  • Ralph December 04, 2009

    Continue to lead the revolution. I have attend both courses and I am on my way to Ethiopia this month. I am a fan of what you preach and teach (even though I haven’t moved the camera in six months). You are so right. Continue to lead us in the right direction. Your vision is making a world of difference (pun intended).