25 Years Later

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Just think…..

It is hard to believe, but we are now preparing for the 25th anniversary reunion of my class at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

People I have not heard from in, oh, 25 years, are beginning to contact one another (thanks to the listserve and the miracle of the web) and recounting stories from a quarter century ago.

I don’t know if my class was an anomaly, but it sure had more than its share of successes as the years went by.

After the reunion (when they publish a list) I will list them all, but the ones that I know about already are quite remarkable.

We had, for example, four Pulitzer Prize winners in the class:

Geraldine Brooks

Tony Hurwitz (who is Geraldine’s husband. They met at school. What dinnertime conversations must be like there!)

Ron Suskind

Mark Maremont

Pretty impressive, no?

Bill Cohan’s history of Lazard Frers won both the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs awards as book of the year.

You can see Cynthia McFadden anchoring Nightline every night on ABC

The list goes on and on….

I was lucky to have been there. Believe me.

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.

3 Comments
  • ! February 06, 2008

    “bug a spray”

    ! know there’s an italian joke in there some a where.

  • nino February 05, 2008

    What I wouldn’t give for a can of bug a
    spray

  • ! February 05, 2008

    what ! wouldn’t give to be a vj fly on the wall there.