Are Universities Next?
OK. Who here is PC based and who is Mac? We all know that newspapers and TV networks are bloated and increasingly unproductive in the digital world. Big buildings, overstaffed, trapped with a 1950’s mentality of how things get...
Read moreBBC Natural History – Bootcamp Results
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuI4eTw_xxI[/youtube] Lucinda Axellrod [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZkRklAsEEg[/youtube] Rosie Gloyn [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKuDA0Uq874[/youtube] Miles [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PemZy_SR_yY[/youtube] Elly We have just completed our first BBC bootcamps in Bristol, UK for the Natural History Unit. These are the same folks who bring you Blue Planet or Meerkat Manor....
Read moreNow That’s Productivity!
Like building a new building… without the building… We’re here wrapping up a week of intensive training at The BBC’s Natural History Unit in Bristol. Everyone is in the big conference room, beavering away on their final projects. In...
Read moreThe Wasted Potential
Don’t look at the camera… We are spending this week with The BBC in Bristol, in the UK. We’re running a bootcamp for 40 BBC producers, directors, associate producers, researchers and God only know what other positions they hold....
Read moreGet Out Of The House.. Now!!!
Get out of the house now!!! Did you ever watch a horror movie. The Texas Chainsaw Killer kind of movie, where the young, good looking group of friends has their car break down in the middle of nowhere and...
Read moreBack to The BBC
I spent five years training more then 750 journalists to be VJs at The BBC between 2000 and 2005. Now, five years later, we are back at The Beeb, running another pilot bootcamp. This time we are in Bristol...
Read moreMaking YouTube Pay
How do you make this pay? YouTube uploads an astonishing number of videos, more than 23 hours of video every minute. People also look at an astonishing number of videos – more than 1 billion views a day. As...
Read moreConcentra Award Winners
Award winner Adam Ellick, NY Times Last week, in Antwerp, we awarded the Fifth Annual Concentra Award for Videojournalism. This year’s winner was Adam Ellick, a videojournalist for The New York Times. We liked Ellick’s work for a number...
Read moreAn Image Problem
schlepper Hollywood Reporter last week said that “TV viewing in the home is at an all-time high, averaging 5.13 hours per viewer per day during fourth-quarter 2009 and more than eight hours a day for the entire household…” More...
Read moreSelf Publishing Takes Off
You can’t get it on Amazon.com… yet… When future archaeologists begin to excavate our civilization they may come to believe that some tragic event befell our culture in the early 21st Century. That is because all historical records of...
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