Travel Channel Academy – 2008

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We’re starting the 2008 season off with our first Travel Channel Academy here in New York.

Forty new freshly minted Travel Journalists (TJs) will soon be credentialed and ready to hit the streets of Shanghai, Mexico City, Nairobi and the rest of the world.

This is just the start. This year we have 24 Academies slated for NY, LA, DC, Chicago and Austin, Texas.

As well we’re running 3 Advanced Academies  in Thailand, Australia and South Africa.

What’s an Advanced Academy?

We’re going to take 15 filmmakers to Northern Thailand (or Australia or S. Africa) for 10 days of filming, scripting, screenings and editing, and we’re going to produce a half-hour documentary for air!

You can’t get an experience like that anywhere else in the world.

Jay Russel from South Carolina (a star student in this week’s academy) is already signing up for the advanced one.

Michael Rosenblum

For more than 35 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.

3 Comments
  • rosenblumtv January 21, 2008

    Here’s the link:
    http://travel.discovery.com/academy/index.html
    If you’ve got any questions, please feel free to contact me directly
    info@rosenblumtv.com

  • rachel January 21, 2008

    Yes, how do you sign up?

  • christina January 20, 2008

    so where do we sign up for the advanced class?? and where do we find the schedule?