Thinking Inside the Box
It was there in front of us all along As newspapers desperately grapple to save themselves, their salvation (and the salvation of local TV news as well ) may right in front of them. Newspapers are machines for gathering...
Read moreHow Sweet It Is
Mel Taylor, Mark Potts and me in Hershey, Pa. Many years, ago, when I was a kid at camp, we used to take a field trip to the Hershey Chocolate Factory in Hershey, Pennsylvania. To this day I can...
Read moreThe End of the Beginning
Even more powerful than Rupert Murdoch… The closing of the 150-year old Rocky Mountain News was certainly a troubling harbinger of where print is headed. Now word is out that The New York Times is threatening to close The...
Read moreUSA TODAY @ TCA
Picture this… Yes, at long last Travel Channel Academy is about to get the recognition that we so richly deserve! The lovely people from USA TODAY are here doing a feature on us. Travel Channel President and GM Pat...
Read moreA Sure Thing
Place your bets Our friend Pat Younge was over for dinner last night. He’s the President and CEO of The Travel Channel, and besides being a friend is our business partner. Now, the thing I really like about Pat,...
Read moreVideo Literacy – Part 2
tell me a story… In response to my last posting on Video Literacy (March 25, 2009), valid points were raised by both Marc Kusnetz and Martin Fletcher on what is meant by video literacy, exactly. Fletcher relates a story...
Read moreLight At The End of the Tunnel
Keep going… we’re almost there… My two day stint at the Guardian (UK) last week was the most encouraging encounter with newspaper video I have had in a very long time. It was encouraging because, (a) The Guardian ‘gets...
Read moreFreedom to Fail
Cheap enough to take a risk… Want to write a novel? According to my friend Jeff Jarvis, 81% of Americans believe they have a book in them. If you want to write a novel, all that is required is...
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