Why Women Will Dominate The Media Future
Books that re-wire your brain In yesterday’s New York Times, columnist Nick Kristof ran a piece, “The Boys Have Fallen Behind“. The focus of Krisofs’ piece was that across the boards, with the exception of math, there is an...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy Sunday
We’re all here at Travel Channel HQ in Chevy Chase, Md. for the final day of our 4-day intensive bootcamp. We’ll be screening at 3pm. The usual public praise/public humiliation! 🙂 Meanwhile, everyone hard at work
Read moreMy Life on B-roll.net
Television professionals… and then again….a few others… About 7 years ago, I got an email from a professional cameraman who identified himself as ‘Ivan’ He asked if it was true that I was training producers and journalists to shoot...
Read moreDSLR vs. Film
I think you’re going to like this picture… Since video first appeared there was no question that film was vastly superior. When video moved into newsrooms with the first big RCA cameras, conventional cameramen who had spent their lives...
Read moreNew York Timezzzzzzzzzzz…….
Pay attention.. this is important stuff.. no, really. Pay attention.. hey you, wake up! So the New York Times has launched TimesCast, its daily ‘live from the newsroom’ webcast. Well, this is only about two years behind The Newark...
Read moreAfter The Fall – Souffle?
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/10354055[/vimeo] Take a look at this.. no kidding.. Here’s how you start a business. You get an idea. Then you go to some smart rich guys. Nick Nicholas was a smart rich guy. He was then the Chairman and...
Read moreWhy I Don’t Contribute to PBS
Thirteen is still an unlucky number… Full disclosure: My very first job in TV was with PBS at Channel 13. That would be WNET/13, the PBS station in New York. I was a production assistant on a public affairs...
Read moreIs Video a Language?
Look around… Video is a language. Just like French or Arabic or Chinese. It is a way that we communicate ideas from one to another. You can pick up ‘street video’ (point the camera and push the button) just...
Read moreThe Case Against “Professional” Journalists
Amateurs! Let me be very clear from the start: I am a product of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University where we were taught to be professional journalists. Big mistake. Not the school – the entire concept....
Read moreIn Defense of Citizen Journalists
Wait…here’s what another blogger wrote… It was Christmas Eve of 1776. General George Washington’s troops had been badly beaten in New York and had been chased across New Jersey. Now they were in rags in the frozen fields of...
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