Empowering the United Nations To Report On Their Own

Yesterday, CNN suffered a journalistic disaster

It reported that the Supreme Court had thrown out ObamaCare.

Wrong!

The ‘reporter’ who did this was Kate Bolduan

The 2005 graduate of George Washington University who previously worked for a local TV station in North Carolina was named one of “Washington’s Most Beautiful People’.  Mazel Tov.

Good for Kate. Bad for Journalism.

We’re here in Nairobi training a new kind of journalist.

These are the folks who do the ground work for the United Nations

They spend years working and living in places like South Sudan, Chad, Mali, Somalia.

The kinds of places Kate Bolduan probably will never see, unless she flies and and flies out with a big support crew.

These people speak the local languages, they know the local people and politics, they live the story every day.

Now, we’re equipping them with state of the art digital cameras and laptops and teaching them to shoot, edit, report, upload the stories that they know so well.

Who needs Kate Bolduan in Sudan?  Or Washington DC for that matter?

The whole point of the ‘digital revolution’ is that qualified, intelligent people can now be empowered to get their stories to the world in video.

 

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.