What is Journalism?
This just in…. In 1798, Napoleon invaded Egypt. Feeling the pressure of rising unemployment in France, and seeing the power that British colonies had given England, Napoleon set forth with his fleet, first picking off the riches of Malta...
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All the news… In 1988 when I quit my job at CBS News and moved into Gaza with a small video camera, the very idea of doing that was rare. There wasn’t a lot of in-depth coverage coming out...
Read moreThe Gaza Flipcam Project
Please read the enclosed. If you have any ideas or would like to become involved, please get in touch. thanks info@rosenblumtv.com The Gaza Flipcam Project Concept:Â New technologies create the opportunity to create a new kind of journalism. The...
Read moreVideo Free Europe
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AVNCiAbd14[/youtube] Driving democracy through video…. A few months ago, we were in Prague, where we ran a pilot bootcamp for Radio Free Europe. When I was young, I remember TV ads for Radio Free Europe. Eastern Europe was then...
Read moreImpressionist Journalism
Live from the park… Georges Seurat… NPR New technologies drive new ideas….but it often isn’t a pretty.. or obvious process. The advent of photography toward the end of the 19th Century spelled the death knell for a generation of...
Read moreThe Power of a Blog Post
Not quite Dell… but it works… Jeff Jarvis begins his book What Would Google Do with an anecdote about a problem he had with a Dell computer. Getting no satisfaction from Dell, he blogged about it. Soon enough, a...
Read moreCharlie Parsons’ Movie
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrDBbPp8vHg&feature=channel_page[/youtube] Charlie Parsons took the TCA course last week in DC. He had never picked up a video camera or edited video before. Now, in all fairness, Charlie is the Executive Producer for the Tony Bourdain show for The...
Read moreVideo Revolution on Saturday in NY
You don’t often get a whole revolution in one day… On Saturday, Jeff Jarvis and I will conduct a one-day intensive seminar on The Video Revolution at the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of NY. The...
Read moreArt & Journalism
Shirt 1 – 36×48…. and for sale! There is an expression called ‘high tech-high touch’. It means that in a high-tech world, there is a naturall attraction to high touch, or non technical things. Like writing with a fountain...
Read moreBING-goes to Video
Why don’t you just Bing me? Yesterday at the All Things D conference Microsoft Chief Exec Steve Ballmer unveiled BING, their new search engine, and a competitor (in theory at least) to Google. Competitor to Google is no easy...
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