Michael on Media
Michael Rosenblum has been writing about the media since 1988. His work and ideas have appeared in The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Ilkeston Life and many other publications.
He has been blogging regularly for the past 35 years on this subject. Having taught media studies at Columbia University, NYU and now the University of Oxford, he is considered an expert on this subject.
KGTV’s Kyle Majors, VJ
Kyle Majors writes today from KGTV in San Diego. KGTV is one of the stations in the US that we are in the process of converting to the VJ model. There has been lots written about this online in...
Read moreThe Power that TV News Could Be
Television is the world’s most plastic medium. It is about manipulating pictures, sound, writing, graphics, storytelling, music… When we marry that power to news, it could be unbelievable. It has such enormous potential to move us on so many...
Read moreBakersfield Update
Check out The Bakersfield Californian’s multimedia web page.(Courtesy, Steve Safran, Lostremote.com) http://www.bakersfield.com/231/index.html Here is a newspaper that clearly ‘gets it’. You might try comparing this to the web page for y0ur local tv news station. Most of them are...
Read moreThe Shape of Things To Come
TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN Since its inception, broadcasting has been based on a pretty simple model. A few people decided what ‘the viewers’ wanted to see. They spend money to create that content, put it on the air and hope...
Read moreKudos Don Knapp
Former KRON on-air reporter Don Knapp took the VJ training last year. Knapp was admittedly an old timer, a long-time KRON reporter with a great track record and a great journalist. There is always concern that the VJ movement...
Read moreAnd Now The News from Bakersfield
While local TV stations agonize over whether to train and field a few VJs, Davina McHenry, a print reporter with The Bakersfield Californian, writes that the local newspaper!! has already trained and equipped 20 of their print journalists and...
Read more40 Degrees North
We took Ronnie Miller, Syracuse radio personality and former cast member of 5takes Europe, gave him a GPS device and a small HDV camera and sent him off to travel around the world. The only condition – he could...
Read moreVJ Stations in Holland
We are in Utrecht, Netherlands, this week, working with RTV, the Dutch state broadcaster – a kind of Dutch BBC. We have been working with RTV for the past 3 years, and visits to the Netherlands are a regular...
Read moreVJs in Sweden
We have just spent the past two days meeting with VJs from all across Sweden. But first, some background. In 1999, I got a phone call from a Swedish journalist named Leif Hedman. He was a TV reporter for...
Read moreLive From Sweden
I am blogging live from the SVT (Swedish State Broadcasting) videojournalist conference in Vilhelmina, Sweden. I will have a complete report on this by the end of the day. It’s a 2-day conference with VJs from all over Sweden....
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