Live Blogging DNA2009
Prepping for the award… Following lunch, the established media got a chance to react to the Google new media threat. Ben Hammersly from Wired Magazine chaired the session, and was joined by Simon Bucks, from Sky news, Pat Loughrey...
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front row, center I am live blogging from DNA2009.com here in Brussels at the Plaza Hotel. We had a great deal of trepidation as we approached the opening day. Many other conferences had and have cancelled. We pushed on…...
Read moreInherit The Wind
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart. -Proverbs 11:29 The 1960 film Inherit The Wind fictionalized the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial over evolution and the...
Read moreSolutions That Work – TV
I know.. gimme a second… This morning I was at TV Limburg in Roermond, Holland. Yeah, I know. Where? Roermond, Holland. You probably have never heard of it, but you should. Because in Roermond a fascinating exercise in the...
Read moreWeapons of Mass Democratization
The first media mogul… Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni understood mass media. While he was still an exile in Paris he began to smuggle audio casettes into the Shah’s Iran. On the tapes, which became wildly popular, he cast the Shah...
Read moreWake Up!!!
I read newspapers online….why? The San Francisco Chronicle is dead. So apparently are the 150 year old Rocky Mountain News, The Baltimore Sun, The Chicago Tribune, The LA Times, The New York Times and just about every other major...
Read moreConcentra Nominees
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/3334394[/vimeo] Travis Fox, The Washington Post, USA [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/3335097[/vimeo] Stef Biemans, VPRO, Netherlands [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/3334862[/vimeo] Subina Shreshta, Al Jazeera, Dubai Above, three of the 8 finalists for the Concentra Videojournalism Award. The 10,000 Euro prize will be presented next week during...
Read more46 Million Words Today – For Free!
Don’t look back… The Heart Corporation announced today that it was going to sell or close the San Francisco Chronicle. This means that San Francisco could lose its largest and most powerful newspaper. The Chronicle lost $50 million last...
Read moreRethinking News
Listen to the technology…. New technologies require new ways of thinking. This is often the hardest thing for us to do. Too often we simply take old ways of working and plug in new technologies. Andy Grove (above), longtime...
Read moreMaking the Case to Radio Free Europe
The managers of RFE/RL today While the first group was out shooting their first assignment, I went over the RFE/RL headquarters in downtown Prague to make the case for the digital revolution to the management of Radio Free Europe...
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