Results from TCA 145
I am in Boston today, but I wanted to post a few of the videos that came out of Travel Channel Academy 145 last week. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVsdRX97Kvg[/youtube] Jalanda came into the class never having touched a camera or an edit....
Read moreChimpcam on BBC
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH4_2IZ3vb8[/youtube] Well, here it is at long last. In the bootcamps we like to say that the technology has now gotten so simple that a monkey could shoot a video. Apparently that is not hyperbole. The BBC is about...
Read moreWe Became What We Beheld
He gets it every time.. pretty much… In 1988, Neil Gabler wrote a seminal book. At least seminal to my mind. It was is called An Empire of Their Own. It’s the story of the founding of the 5...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy NY
Today we start day 3 of the Travel Channel Academy in NY!
Read moreCarpe Medium
Hold everything! Many years ago, when I was a producer for CBS News, there was a kind of hyper-sensitivity to phone calls. We might run a story and conceivably 7 million people might watch it. However, if the phones...
Read moreRaising The Bar
This is a camera…. This morning we are kicking off a New York Travel Channel Academy. This is, in fact, academy number 145. And the demand is as strong as ever – stronger in fact, than when we started...
Read moreWe Make The NY Times Today
You spell it t.r.a.v.e.l.c.h…… This morning, I am very happy to relate, we got mention in The New York Times for the Travel Channel Academy. Matt Gross, who writes the column for The Times called me last week to...
Read moreMaybe Monetizing Is Not The Answer
OK… but how much are you going to pay me to do this? The content of the web continues to grow by leaps and bounds – almost all of it free – and yet we continue to ask the...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy DC
Jonathan Sichel, acting President and CEO of Travel Channel addresses the group and explains how important TCA is. everyone else takes it all in We don’t call it bootcamp for nothing! (only kidding).
Read moreHaiti-Here Come the Stereotypes
Can you spot the difference between the ‘looter’ and the ‘finder’?* All hell is breaking loose in Haiti. The earthquake was just the beginning. As David Brooks pointed out in The New York Times this morning: This is not...
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