How To Save Photojournalism
This just in! Jesus and his pals had dinner last night….. full story at 11. Last week, Dirck Halstead ran a very provocative piece in his Digital Journalist asking How To Save Photo Journalism. The answers were more depressing...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – NY
This weekend we’re down at the City University of NY Graduate School of Journalism where we are running another 4-day Travel Channel Academy. Lisa preps the students on the ins and outs of legal releases, (their favorite lecture), as...
Read moreTCA Goes To Sea
Anchors aweigh (away?) Yesterday we signed a deal with Crystal Cruises to run Travel Channel Academy courses at sea! Of course, Cruise Ships seem a pretty logical place to run a Travel Channel Academy. You are, after all, on the...
Read moreWe Launch NY Video School
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vONorpVbLYo&feature=channel_page[/youtube] Francisco shows how to make a music video Two years in the making, today we officially launched New York Video School. Â www.nyvs.com We have been running video training bootcamps for more than 20 years now, but during that...
Read more1,000 Flipcams in Newark
Bathed in the sense of the place… Let’s give 1,000 flipcams to 1,000 people in Newark, New Jersey. Let’s teach them how to shoot and cut and tell their own stories. Then, let’s create a gigantic video wall in...
Read moreSue Norton Wins 3 Emmys
Hat trick at the Emmys last night Susan Norton will be familiar to anyone who has taken the Travel Channel Academy. Â She’s the Executive Producer in charge of the Academy for the Travel Channel and who also runs...
Read moreHow Long Has This Been Going On?
Come on… you gotta do this in 2 minutes or less! Up until very recently if you wanted to listen to music at home, you had to have your own orchestra. or Chamber Music group.. or at least a...
Read moreIn My Spare Time….
Ernest Bujok on my floor When I was a student at Willams College in the ’70s, I was a double major in history and studio art. I write often about  history, but rarely about the studio art. I also...
Read moreSmaller and smaller…..
come back in two years for the next photo In 1988 I went to Korea to cover the Olympics for CBS News. My brother-in-law Ted Savaglio was in charge of the CBS contingent, and as such, he the first...
Read moreWe All Live in Youtubia
Larry Page and Sergei Brin….ca. 1776 July 4, 1776 and Thomas Jefferson, with help from a few other folks, finishes up the Declaration of Independence. In the days when there was still a smattering of education in the United...
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