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.
VJ Academy with Travel Channel
For almost 20 years we have been running our VJ Bootcamps all over the world. We have trained more than 5,000 people to work in this way, from London to Japan. But now, with the web going to video,...
Read moreWhat’s It Worth?
The Future is Calling New technologies can have massive disruptive impacts. When they appear whole industries, institutions or careers can collapse – seemingly overnight. Sometimes, a new technology is so powerful that it changes the very way we think....
Read moreWhat’s Your Trip?
Got video from that trip to Japan in your closet? Could be worth thousands…. There has been an enormous amount of buzz around User Generated Content or UGC. In 2000, hoping to catch this trend, I opened the DV...
Read more$13,000 VJ Prize
Three years ago, we started to award a €10,000 ($13,200) prize for the best European VJ news piece. This year, the Concentra Company (one of the largest newspaper/media groups in Belgium) is expanding the award to include VJs from...
Read moreKGTV’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...
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