How iPhones Will Change Television News – if we’re lucky
This is Walter Kigali. He is with the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees. He was part of the training we just completed in Nairobi. Like all the other UN people we trained, he works in some of the...
Read moreEmpowering the United Nations To Report On Their Own
Yesterday, CNN suffered a journalistic disaster It reported that the Supreme Court had thrown out ObamaCare. Wrong! The ‘reporter’ who did this was Kate Bolduan The 2005 graduate of George Washington University who previously worked for a local TV...
Read moreAt Video Bootcamp in Nairobi with the UN
We are here in Nairobi with the United Nations training them to shoot and cut and upload their own video using an iPhone. The UN people here work with UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and they...
Read moreSONY NX 30
We’re always on the look-out for new gear. Here’s the SONY NX30. It’s a hand-held size palmcorder with two very interesting features: 1. incredible lens stabilization 2. built-in projector (!) which I like a lot Here are the details...
Read moreIs Facebook the next Irish Real Estate Bubble? Is Ireland a better bet?
Ah Ireland. The Celtic Tiger Now the Celtic basket case – along wth Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Iceland.. you name it… Borrow vast sums of money to build houses. Â How could this go wrong? Real estate prices always go...
Read moreiPhone Millionaire – The blurbs are on the jacket now
OK The blubs on the book jacket are done. Who would have thought that so much work went into something like this. And yes, there will be a Kindle edition coming out as well – complete with videos! Meanwhile,...
Read moreSteve Backshaw, The BBC & The Deadly 60
We are in London this week to run another session of The Guardian Media Academy in partnership with The Guardian. Still not too late to sign up! In any event, we checked into Claridges and the TV in the...
Read moreCreate Your Own London Olympics Video
For those of us watching from America, The BBC seems to have done a stellar job of covering the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. However, owing to that old addage that you can’t make everyone happy, The Beeb received 2,425 complaints...
Read moreOur Grads Hit It Big With Their First PBS Series
The Rocky Mountain Experience is a new show set to premier on Rocky Mountain PBS April 14th at 7:30 MST TRME Showcases siblings Rick and Brian Higgins as they face off in adventurous activities throughout the Rocky Mountain Region!...
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