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  I have a special gift for you today Americans spend about 11 hours a day, every day, staring at screens. We spend more time staring at screens than we do working, eating, reading, playing sports, working out and...

It’s not secret that web based content companies are under fire. Facebook has been dragged over the coals of late, including a move by some major investors to replace founder and Chairman Mark Zuckerberg.  That’s serious stuff.  Others are talking...

Adobe has released a new much-anticipated editing app for smartphones called Rush CC. The new app is basically a mobile version of Adobe’s Premiere Pro CC. Think of it as the iMovie for iOS to Final Cut (or iMovie)....

Video is an incredibly powerful medium. It can hold your attention in ways that print simply cannot. It can move you emotionally. It can educate you. It can change the way your think. We are a society that is...

Having spent 30 years working in television, one thing I can say for certain is when it comes to shooting, storytelling and editing video it’s the editing part that usually gets in the way. For most people picking up a camera and filming video...

If you have ever seen the movie Dunkirk, directed by Christopher Nolan (2017), or perhaps more esoterically, if you are a bit older, the film Mrs. Miniver, directed by William Wyler (1942), you’ll know the story of the miraculous...

We have just completed three weeks of Video Bootcamp in Los Angeles with the soon to be launched SoCal1, the LA equivalent of NY1, but in Los Angeles. I am looking forward to a truly incredible new concept in...

Television news in general, and local news in particular has remained pretty much static for the past 50 years or so. Take a look at early broadcasts of Walter Cronkite and The CBS Evening News and it is not...