Are We Missing the Point?
When new technologies come along, existing businesses as a rule, tend to adapt those new technologies to their existing way of working.
Read moreForeign Correspondents Talk
Speaking at the White House Press Photographer’s Association on how to make the transition from still photographer to videojouranlist, and more significantly, how to earn a living in this new field.
Read more41 New Travel Journalists
Images from this week’s Travel Channel Academy in Los Angeles. 41 newly minted TJs, or Travel Journalists graduated yesterday and head off into the world with their newly forged skills and relationship with the Channel. 41 more cameras around...
Read moreLondon to LA Q&A
Photoshopped and corrected courtesy of PF Bentley (www.pfpix.com). Thanks! Pat Younge, Pres and General Manager of the Travel Channel usually comes to the Travel Channel Academies to address the groups and talk about his vision for 1,000 TJs around...
Read moreLeft Brain, Right Brain and Video
The story is buried in here somewhere… Every once in a while a book comes along that changes your life. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman was one such book. Another is The Alphabet vs. The Goddess by...
Read moreTCA Los Angeles
41 New Travel Journalists start in Los Angeles this morning On the heels of the successful Travel Channel Academy in New York, we start another TCA in Los Angeles. We are at the Westin Bonaventure hotel in Downtown LA,...
Read moreNBC News says ‘hello" to the VJ
This was in this morning’s NY Times. A half-page ad on page E4. Looks like NBC News is dipping their toe in VJ training. Maybe more than it’s dipping. It offers a full year program ($34,000 tuition). I am...
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 Images from Travel Channel Academy, New York. We are off to Los Angeles where another TCA will start on Thursday. We also announced the launch of the Advanced Travel Channel Academy. We will run 3 of these in 2008. ...
Read moreThe "Other" Long Tail
A room full of ideas for The Travel Channel – what’s it worth? There has been a lot of talk about ‘the long tail’ and the Internet. Chris Anderson’s book has proven something of a talisman to those of...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – New York
Today is day 4 at the first NY Travel Channel Academy. We’re going to begin another screening (the final screening for this session) of all the cut pieces in just less than an hour. Then the newly minted grads...
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