To The Death
We spent yesterday in the painfully beautiful and painfully touristed town of St. Paul de Vence. Nearby is the far more interesting (and far less touristed) town of La Colle-sur-Loup. It is smaller, has missed the tourist crush for...
Read moreA Three Hour Tour
What now little buddy? When I was a kid, there were only a handful of channels. As a result, everyone ended up watching pretty much the same thing. And as a result, if I sit around a dining room...
Read moreCNN Bureaus Go VJ
From The New York Times: NYT-August 12, 2008, 2:37 pm CNN’s Strategy: Bureaus Out, Flexible Journalists In By Brian Stelter CNN announced Tuesday that it would “double its domestic news-gathering presence†by assigning journalists to 10 additional cities across...
Read moreBroadband Olympics?
Genius The Olympics are one of those things that only TV networks can do… or is it? In a world of broadband, as opposed to broadcasting, how might the Olympics be ‘broadcast’? The way NBC is doing it this...
Read moreOlympic Memories
The last time I had a ‘real’ job was 1988. I was working as a producer for CBS News, and my last assignment was to go to the Seoul Olympics. I was working with Bill Geist, a contributor for...
Read moreA Few More Wedding Photos
taking a break from the blog (at least for a day or two!) while soaking up the sun, sand and sea here in Elba. Meanwhile, a few more shots from Villa Pignano.
Read moreAl Jazeera and the VJs
bisme allahi al rahman al rahim… We first met the folks from Al Jazeera at the DNA2008 conference in Brussels. In fact, their Tony Birtley won the prize for best breaking VJ story for his coverage of the Burma...
Read moreMille Grazie
Many many thanks for your kind emails and postings. We have had a wonderful, almost magical time here in Tuscany. Spending a week at the Villa Pignano was a bit like spending a week inside one of those jigsaw...
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