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Listen:     I have been reading Walter Isaacson’s new bio of Elon Musk. It’s a fascinating read, and it has given me lots of ideas about the TV news business. Musk, as anyone knows, even without reading the...

Listen:   In the past 10 years, more than 2,000 newspapers across the US have closed, most of them local. This is a very serious problem, because a democracy requires a well informed and well-educated public, and newspapers, particularly...

Listen:   Several years ago, Lisa bought me an old manual typewriter. It turned out to be a very powerful tool for making video. It’s an Underwood, built in 1912, the same year as the Titanic, but unlike the...

Listen:   Stephanie Stokes, a journalist at the Time-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans, sent me the following clipping:   Under pressure to cut costs, ABC News has “resorted to using iPhone for shooting some stories.” (Italics my own). Resorted...

Listen:   A well-informed citizenry is the foundation of a functioning democracy. As Thomas Jefferson said in 1787, “I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.” For the past 35 years, it has been...