I discovered today that the Newark Star Ledger will cease printing the paper. This is a newspaper that has been in business continually since 1796. The Star Ledger joins more than 2,400 other newspapers in the United States that...

  J.D. Miles is an award-winning reporter with KTVT | CBS News Texas. He’s been reporting since 1996 and has worked all over the world. But until last week, he had always worked with a crew. Last week was...

  We have been running video storytelling bootcamps for years (40 years actually). They last for 5 intensive days, and we teach journalists all over the world to tell their own stories using only an iPhone. The above story...

In the 1950s in America, Joseph McCarthy, the Senator from Wisconsin was running riot over the nation. Searching for a cause to help his career, he hit on the idea of a massive communist conspiracy infecting every branch of...

In my newsletter yesterday, I outlined what I see as the inescapable disaggregation of the current architecture of journalism—that is, newspapers, TV networks, and so on. The Internet’s technology, coupled with the power of the iPhone, renders most of...

For all of the history of journalism (and it isn’t really that long a history), there have been two barriers to entry: The first was the complexity and cost of producing the product. As AJ Liebling wrote in 1961,...

My mentor in the television business was Fred Friendly. For those who never heard of him, he pretty much invented TV news. He was Edward R. Murrow’s producer for many years before he became President of CBS News. For...

Local news is in trouble. More than 2400 newspapers have closed in the US in the past decade, with more to come. Local TV news is also in trouble. Viewership is down and the all important younger demographic is...

The Wall Street Journal reports today that legacy TV news networks are increasingly looking to TikTok to solve their problem. Their problem is that their viewership is rapidly diminishing, (or rather dying, apparently) with a median age of 69. TikTok, of...

We have wrapped up a year Video Storytelling Bootcamps with CBS News and Stations with more coming in 2025 Below are some great examples of work from the last few months. One of the fundamentals of our approach is...