Visit From A Reader

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Come on by!

Blogging and communicating on the web creates a new kind of relationship.

You can get to know someone fairly well and yet never meet them.

Sometimes, these relationships can go on for years.

Announcing that we were going to be in Colorado to run a bootcamp at Keystone Resorts, I was contacted by Eric Blumer (eb), a longtime reader of and contributor to this blog, (as well as someone I knew from postings at b-roll.net).

Well, come on by!

And he did.

Eric is a consumate professional, both conventional cameraman (NPPA National Award winner, among others), journalist (Murrow Award, 21 Emmys, and lots more), and VJ.

We had a long and very involved conversation about the industry and where it is going.

(I invited Chicago Dog to come and see me when we ran a session in Chicago, but he mercifully declined. I am not planning any sessions in Tampa in the near future, at least).

It was a real pleasure to meet Eric in person, and I hope that both the dialogue and the friendship will continue.

We are off to DC tomorrow to start another Travel Channel Academy at Travel Channel HQ, but for today there are 10 inches of newly fallen snow and all of Colorado is white and beckoning.

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.

2 Comments
  • Michael Rosenblum March 11, 2009

    oops. sorry. 21 Emmys.

  • eb March 11, 2009

    I hope you enjoyed the high country. I sure do.

    It was good to meet and talk. The world of video media and journalism is definitely changing. And I’m always interested in what’s “new” in the news biz. That’s why I read this blog, and B-Roll too. Plus I ran into a few other people I knew.

    (Fact check: That would be 21 not 11.)