Academy Day 2
The next generation of content makers at Discovery HQ Today is the second day of V.J. training here at Discovery Channel’s main offices at Silver Spring, Md. Yesterday our 22 trainees learned how to shoot a piece – lots...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – Round 2
Today we start on the 2nd Travel Channel Academy. This time we are running the course in Discovery’s HQ in Silver Spring, Md. And as of this morning, twenty eager young documentary and filmmakers have learned the first lessons...
Read moreA Cat Leads a Revolution
still number one…. Like many people, I post my blog on WordPress.com.
Read moreWhither PBS?
It all started with him…. Edward R. Murrow and Channel 13’s first broadcast…. After I graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1983, my first job was with WNET/13, the PBS station in New York.
Read moreThe Coming Disaster
…where to now?… On May 31, 1911, the Titanic left the Belfast shipyards with state- of -the-art technology.
Read moreThe Source
every once in a while something hits you that changes your life…. I was 12 years old when I first read The Source by James Michener.
Read moreCitizeNews
In 2005, I was invited to speak at the Eurasian Median Forum in Almaty, Kazakhstan. I only went for two reasons: First, I wanted to see Almaty. Second, I wanted to meet one of the other speakers –Oh Yeon...
Read moreYoutube -1320 AD
“see what else is on…” For most of our existence, we have lived in a world without images. We are today so inundated by them, from TV to movies to magazines to billboards that we forget that all this...
Read moreKRON – Two Years Later
works like a newspaper… but in video…. Two years ago this week we started the conversion of KRON4 in San Francisco to the VJ model.
Read moreDisposable Content
the burning of the Great Library at Alexandria… the MGM version… This morning we had a meeting with the head of one of the largest newspaper groups in the world, based in the UK. We were early…(which I think...
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