Raising The Bar
This is a camera…. This morning we are kicking off a New York Travel Channel Academy. This is, in fact, academy number 145. And the demand is as strong as ever – stronger in fact, than when we started...
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You spell it t.r.a.v.e.l.c.h…… This morning, I am very happy to relate, we got mention in The New York Times for the Travel Channel Academy. Matt Gross, who writes the column for The Times called me last week to...
Read moreMaybe Monetizing Is Not The Answer
OK… but how much are you going to pay me to do this? The content of the web continues to grow by leaps and bounds – almost all of it free – and yet we continue to ask the...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy DC
Jonathan Sichel, acting President and CEO of Travel Channel addresses the group and explains how important TCA is. everyone else takes it all in We don’t call it bootcamp for nothing! (only kidding).
Read moreHaiti-Here Come the Stereotypes
Can you spot the difference between the ‘looter’ and the ‘finder’?* All hell is breaking loose in Haiti. The earthquake was just the beginning. As David Brooks pointed out in The New York Times this morning: This is not...
Read moreThe Media Tragedy from Haiti – Live!
Now…this! I woke up this morning and turned on the Today Show. I wanted to see the latest news from Haiti. The devastation is mind-boggling. Perhaps as many as 500,000 dead. So I tuned in to NBC to see...
Read moreWe Open in South Africa
Beats Chevy Chase…. We are delighted to announce that in partnership with our friends in South Africa, The Media Academy, we are going to be offering a 1-day intensive bootcamp in digital story telling. We first met Jonathan Berman...
Read moreHow To Find Video Work in this Economy
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/7906381[/vimeo] What they don’t teach you in school… My nephew Adam is looking for a job. But he’s going to job fairs and trying to schnur work off of friends of his parents. Big mistake. But talking to him,...
Read moreThe World’s Greatest Filmmaking Course
Getting the wide shot… Next month we will depart with around 40 participants on what I think will be the world’s greatest filmmaking and video course ever. Or at least that is how I see it. We’re running our...
Read moreMy Own Gosford Park
The remnants of Empire… Fire Sale! We are looking to buy a country home. Originally, we were looking in the Hamptons, on Long Island, along with everyone else from Manhattan. But of late we have started looking in the...
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