The Four Cs
Brandon Follett prepares to ‘Bourdain’ a roach in Thailand…. I spent most of yesterday screening submissions for “What’s Your Trip”, a new series we are producing for The Travel Channel.
Read moreBreakfast with Richard Bookstaber
This morning we had breakfast with my friend and neighbor Richard Bookstaber on the back deck of his house in the Hamptons. It is on the water and the views were incredible, as was the food.
Read moreMeet Andre Zalbertus
He was also the Moscow correspondent for German television…. Andre Zalbertus is someone you should get to know.
Read moreThe Bottom Line
1973 2003 2013 Pay attention to the chart above. It contains the inevitable seeds of the future.
Read moreTVNewsday.com
TVNEWSDAY FOCUS ON JOURNALISM VIDEO JOURNALISM TAKES ROOT IN LOCAL TV NEWS TVNEWSDAY, Aug. 8, 8:08 AM ET The idea of replacing or at least supplementing news crews with reporter-photographers is finding some adherents among broadcasters who are trying...
Read moreGood Morning America
“We’ll be back with sports and weather after this….” Yesterday, we were talking about Videovolunteers and the idea of empowering local people with cameras, edits and training. This reminded me of a story. Stick with it, it has an...
Read moreVideo Volunteers
What is an education worth? Our friend from Fox News writes to ask what is the value of a short training course in video. “How much money can I make from it”? he wants to know.
Read moreSanctuary!!!
`’I learned to shoot at the Travel Channel Academy….why?…” Writer Dan Trigoboff, whom I was on the phone with this evening doing an interview for TVNewsday, draws my attention instead to the second chapter of The Hunchback of Notre...
Read morePieces from The Academy
Here are three pieces produced from the most recent Travel Channel Academies. More will follow.
Read moreThe Information "Explosion"
This just in…… Several years ago I was invited to take over a course at New York University. The man teaching it, Ed Diamond, had died just a few days before school was to start.
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