Postcard From Rio

If you were born 500 years ago…..can you hear me in the back?

We are in lovely Rio de Janiero.

I came down here to be the keynote speaker at MediaOn, a Latin American conference on online digital journalism, and of course, the ‘video revolution’.

The conference actually starts tomorrow evening in Sao Paolo, but Itau Cultural, the sponsor of the event, upon reading in the blogs (see the value of blogging?) that Lisa and I had just gotten married, flew us down a few days early and put us up here on the Copacabana beach. Nice. Thanks Itau Cultural!

We had actually sent the group to Rio a few years ago when we produced 5Takes Latin America, but we had not gone along.

Watching the show was nice, but somehow television does not convey the full sense of being on the beach in Rio.

Watching all the lithe bodies on the beach, I can only think, ‘gee, if they only had video cameras and a bit of training, what great journalism they could produce’. And at only 3,400 Reals for a 4-day course, what a deal!

more to follow.

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.