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Reuters reported on Friday that the ratings for The Today Show, NBC’s flagship morning program were actually way up following the departure of former anchor and co-host Matt Lauer. The show, which averaged 4.1 million viewers in the Lauer...

The election was incredibly close. The Democratic candidate had taken the popular vote, but as you know, elections are decided by the popular vote, and the electoral count was still in dispute. Florida was hanging by a chad. Whoever...

For years, I had a Hasselblad C/M 100. This was the old Hasselblad, the workhorse of the photography world, the pinnacle of photography. I saved for years to be able to buy it, and when I did, I thought...

About 30 years ago, I came up with what was then a crazy idea. Instead of having cameramen, soundmen, (they were all pretty much men in those days), producers and directors to create television journalism, wouldn’t it be better...

For pretty much the entire history of media, going back to antiquity, there have been gatekeepers. These are the people whose job it is to decide what the rest of us get to see. Newspapers and TV networks, for...

If anything is ready for disruption, it is television news. Take a look at any TV news show, and what do you see? Something that looks like it is from the Museum of Broadcasting. Some old guy (mostly guys)...

There is a kind of strange marriage between technology and art, and more often than not, it is the technology that dominates. Take popular songs. As you may have noticed, most pop songs run about 3 minutes long. Ever...

Last week, I got my new iPhone X. Along with the phone, you also get, among other things, a charger for the phone. Well, this makes sense. For the phone to work, it has to be charged!  What they...

In the future, Andy Warhol once said, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. He said that in 1968, and in 1968 that was pretty prescient. Mass media (three TV networks were considered mass in those days), and they...

When I was a student at Williams College in the 1970s, education consisted of our sitting in a classroom while a professor gave a lecture and then took questions. The ‘computer lab’ at Williams in those years consisted of...