Mazel Tov!
Way back in 1993 I was teaching at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
It was the same year I founded my first VJ-driven company, Video News International.
I later sold VNI to The New York Times and it became NY Times Television, but in 1992/3 it was a start up, and what better way to opulate a start up than with your own students.
So I took on a very smart young group of students from the class of ’93 and we got to work.
They’ve all gone on to great success. Peter Klein became a producer at 60 Minutes. Michael Kovnat produces for CBS. Laurel Bowman joined us for some of the very first training sessions in Denmark and Hong Kong and now is a working VJ (and mother of 3) with The Voice of America.
VOA was one of the very first of our clients to shift from conventional TV to VJ. We converted them in 1998 and the program (and most of the original VJs) are still going strong.
Her husband, Drew Tierney (who works for us as a VJ trainer when he’s not working his full time job as a cameraman/editor for NBC News) sent me a link to her most recent piece.
He notes how it is ‘character driven’.
He should know.
He’s been running VJ training courses for us since… well, since the VOA.
