And Now It’s Official
Do you think they have enough cameras on that boat? In 1988 we introduced the concept of VJ Newsgathering in Norway at TV Bergen. In 1990 we did it with NY1 in New York for Time/Warner. In 1993 we...
Read moreWhy Network News is Dead
And that’s the way it is… The announcement by ABC News last week that they are going to cut 300-400 jobs, a full 20% of their news staff is only confirmation of what we predicted along time ago: That...
Read moreCafe Jew Town
Getting right to the point After 7 days as sea, we made the passage from Mombasa, Kenya to India and this morning, at 7am local time, made landfall in Cochin, India. Needless to say, after 7 days at sea,...
Read moreNewark Star Ledger gets 7 Emmy Nominations!
Newsroom and TV studio… Yesterday, the Newark Star Ledger received an astonishing 7 Emmy Award nominations for its video work. These are local news Emmys, and this is the first time that newspapers have been allowed to participate. The...
Read moreMore on ABC’s VJ Flip
Dutch Public TV in 2004 is now ABC News in 2010….eventually all things come ABC News’ decision to embrace the VJ model is apparently going to go much deeper than we first thought. What appeared to be a mere...
Read moreABC News Goes VJ
finally… ABC News today announced major layoffs. 300-400 positions are going to be eliminated. Most interesting in the announcement today is the decision by David Westin that the network news organization is going to move toward VJ based newsgathering....
Read moreA Word For National Geographic
Hey Steve, get that camera out of my face… I’m trying to watch American Idol…. SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE INDIAN OCEAN:Â OK. We are now somewhere between Madagascar and India, somewhat closer to Madagascar. Because of the...
Read moreReport from Travel Channel Academy@Sea
Two of our students head off for Mombasa ready to start filming…. When I was 21 and young and dumb I spent a year crossing Africa overland. I went across the Sahara Desert with the Toureg Bedouin then made...
Read moreVaughan Smith, Videojournalist
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEDRM6l0SKs[/youtube] Lots of us dream of running off to Afghanistan with a small video camera. Vaughan Smith actually did it – and continues to do so. He has just returned from Afghanistan where he was embedded with The Grenadier...
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