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I read in today’s NY Times that Anthony Scaramucci, the one time (for a short time) White House Communications Director (a job that lasted only 11 days), is launching his own media company – ScaramucciPost. The problem was, as the...

Alan Watts (1915-1973) was a British philosopher, writer and speaker; an exponent of Zen Buddhism and Eastern Philosophy. He is hardly the kind of person you would turn to to sell cars. But that is exactly what Forsman &...

Last night, Pat Younge, former head of The Travel Channel, former Chief Creative Officer at The BBC dropped by for dinner. Since we had him as a kind of captive, we got him to answer a few basic questions on...

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...