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On October 12th, I am going to engage in an interesting experiment. I am going to teach a room full of people to be what I would call ‘video literate’ and do it in 40 minutes. (I may run...

After a 40 year run, The Wall Street Journal announced that it will stop publishing its European and Asian editions. It’s hardly as surprise, following the News Corp’s announcement that the international editions posted losses of $643 million this year. Well,...

  The Columbia Journalism Review, a highly praised and excellent print publication that reviews the world of journalism yesterday published a piece by Heidi Moore entitled The Secret Cost of Pivoting to Video. As print publications move online, it is...

Real life explorer Ed Stafford is having a good run on The Discovery Channel, the FT reports. The former British Army officer spent 860 days walking the entire length of the Amazon river, and filmed the whole thing himself....

I am delighted to see that the long dormant Carnival of Journalism has been brought back to life. This month’s topic is “Regardless of how we present our stories to our audiences — online, on-air, or in print — do we truly take them...

and now, the news… A few months ago, I left a package in the overhead compartment on a Delta Flight. You know how it is. You arrive, you scramble to get off the plane, and then, in the taxi,...

Since he first descended his golden escalator in Trump Tower on June 16th, 2015 (a day that will live in infamy), people have been underestimating Donald Trump, much to their misfortune. One by one he plowed through 16 other...

image courtesy Wikicommons   On the heels of the success of House of Cards on HBO, the cable news channels (and the networks) have  launched their own drama series – MOTHERLAND. Like House of Cards and Homeland, it is...

“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross”. So wrote (theoretically) Sinclair Lewis. It would seem he was wrong. When fascism came to America, it came wrapped in a Reality TV...

Fake news is a problem. Everyone thinks so, even President Obama who decried it in Berlin yesterday (that is, if TVNewser is to be believed.  Who knows?) To my mind, Fake News is not really a problem. It is...