A Question from the newspaper folks
“That is so true. I just had a reporter say to me: “I used to know what I was doing when I left the newsroom. I had a pen behind my ear and a notebook in my pocket. But...
Read moreDetroit Homicide
USING VJ SKILLS TO PILOT NEW SHOWS NBC’s Jeff Zucker just made the (to my mind) unusual announcement that henceforth NBC would not longer engage in piloting. This strikes me as a bit strange. I guess when you spend...
Read moreHere It Comes
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Read moreTravel Channel Student Blog
Here’s what Tanya posted on her blog today:
Read moreTRAVEL CHANNEL ACADEMY GRADS SPEAK
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ZgJmRSbNE&rel=1]] The grads of the most recent NY Travel Channel Academy speak for themselves!
Read moreThe Insanity Is Still Alive
I am deeply disturbed by an emailed blog I received this evening. It comes from something called “The Synagogue of Satan“, and it is a long, deep and deeply disturbed blog about how Jews both control the media and...
Read moreCheerleaders
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLwGqtt_Z78&rel=1]] OK. You want to see an example of my VJ work. Here’s one. I don’t make a living as a VJ. My job is to sell the concept, implement it, teach it. But from time to time I...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – 2008
We’re starting the 2008 season off with our first Travel Channel Academy here in New York. Forty new freshly minted Travel Journalists (TJs) will soon be credentialed and ready to hit the streets of Shanghai, Mexico City, Nairobi and...
Read moreBack to School
Following the winter break, Lisa and I start our new class at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. Our curriculum is a bit ‘unorthodox’, but we think we’re giving them a good head start for...
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