More 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...
Read moreYou Push The Button
Kodak….. a good idea at the time In 1888 George Eastman launched Kodak with the motto “You push the button, we do the rest”. Although photography had been around for a while, it was, until Eastman, an expensive and...
Read moreHow To Make Better Home Videos
Trying to figure something out… For the past week we have been running TCA at Sea, in partnership with Crystal Cruises. As I write this we’re off the coast of Mozambique, headed north to Zanzibar, our next port of...
Read moreWe Launch WEtv Film Academy
Empowering women with film, video and TV Two and a half years ago we launched the Travel Channel Academy. No one knew if it would work. No one had even heard of such a crazy idea. Teach and empower...
Read moreSouth Africa – Still Crazy After All These Years
Khayelitsha, a Township in Cape Town. 2 million people live here… Preparing for the World Cup Games, South Africa is doing it’s best to put on a good face. But it still remains the ultimate weird place. First, television...
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