The Soul of a New Machine
You are looking at a machine. As fast, efficient, lean machine designed for news gathering and information processing. It is the newsroom of the Newark Star Ledger. A newspaper. For more than 300 years, newspapers in this country have...
Read moreNewark Star Ledger TV – Day 1
The job of a newspaper reporter is to go out into the community, gather stories and put them in people’s homes. They used to work only in text and stills. Now we add video. Today, we start our first...
Read moreA Sense of Dedication
At work by the pool Ken Krushel knows what television network news is all about. He was senior vice president of Strategic Planning and Business Development at NBC where he oversaw new media development, including digital broadcast, digital cable...
Read moreThe Day the Monks Bought The Farm
It’s over In 1452 the Monks were arrogant. “Have you seen the ‘books’ that Gutenberg is turning out with his printing press”? they asked each other. “What a disaster! No golden lettering, no hand-drawn cherubs. What terrible technical quality!...
Read moreJK Rowling and TV
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Read moreThe Inevitability of Change
Certified genius Many years ago, I woman I knew said she wanted to introduce me to a guy she was dating. He wanted to do something in television and maybe I could help. So she took me uptown to...
Read moreThe Handwriting on the Wall
Watch this…. Mark Antonitis, President and GM for KRON4 in San Francisco and VJ Pioneer writes to me to tell me about the new Panasonic HDV camera: I just took around the new Panasonic AVCHD camera for a tour...
Read moreFlash! Bananas Grow in Central Park!
When I was a student at Williams College, about a million years ago, my Econ 101 professor, Randy Bartlett told us that the basics of economics could be understood by two axioms: 1. There is not such thing as...
Read moreA Newspaper Leads the Way in Video
Newark – focal point for a revolution in video New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the country. It is also the second wealthiest state in the country. Strange then, that such a rich and powerful state...
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