How Video Changed One Man’s Life
As you know I am writing a book “iPhone Millionaire – Six Weeks To Change Your Life” The final draft has to be with my editor in two weeks, so I am crashing to a close. As part of...
Read moreWhy Networks Are Finished
The confluence of two piece up in today’s blogosphere drives home the point of why conventional network television is deader than a doornail. First, a fascinating blog on Empire Avenue. Blogger Ric Williams went to CES and attended a...
Read moreReuters Launches Reuters TV and Does Not Get It
Don’t get it… Yesterday, Pat Younge, Chief Creative Officer at The BBC sent me a link to a Neiman Report from the highly respected Neiman Journalism Lab. It was all about Reuters TV. Reuters, the global news service is launching...
Read more5Takes 2.0?
An Hour Well Spent… Sometime around 2004 we went to see Pat Younge. Today, he’s the Chief Creative Officer at The BBC, but then he had just been made the President of the Travel Channel. “Congratulations and condolences”, we...
Read moreSky’s New Broadband Experiment in England – Dan Salisbury-Jones
Last week we ran an intensive bootcamp for the new VJs for Sky’s experimental broadband local news site – Tyne&Ware in Newcastle, UK. This piece was shot, edited and produced in one day by VJ Dan Salisbury-Jones. As...
Read moreSky’s New Broadband Service Tyne & Wear – First Bootcamp Results
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROOdCXqdPKc[/youtube] Andy Hughes, former newspaper reporter. Never shot or cut video before. Looking good.
Read moreIn Newcastle, The Sky’s The Limit
Back to Newcastle This week Lisa and I are running a VJ bootcamp with Sky, the UK broadcaster. We’re in Newcastle, in Northern England where Sky is going to launch a local broadband based television (if that’s the right...
Read moreKodak and Cambodia – Nothing Lasts Forever
Also the set for Raiders of the Lost Ark This week we are in Angkor Wat, near Siem Reap in central Cambodia. The first time I was here was in 1992 with David Kennerly. We were shooting one of...
Read moreHow To Make Millions As A Journalist
And why not??? I am writing today’s blog in conjunction with the Carnival of Journalism , Dave Cohn’s ongoing journalism project. If you feel like participating, please do. The issue I wanted to write about for some time is Journalism...
Read moreWhen The Old World Collides With The New in Thailand
Hmong village near the Burmese border in Thailand Lisa and I have come to Thailand for New Year’s. Tomorrow we are off to Angkor Wat in Cambodia before returning to the UK. I shot this yesterday in a tiny...
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