A Plea For Quality
This week on Dancing with The Stars, Hitler and Petain! Jet lag is a bitch. It was 3am and we turned to one another. “Wide awake”? “You bet”. So it was that we came to explore TV offerings at...
Read moreHow To Make Great TV News
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Here they are, all the secrets so that you, or indeed anyone, can make great TV news stories. Special thanks to Heather Tilert, former producer of Wonderpets for this one.
Read moreThe BBC’s “Digital Revolution”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeDUGPCDKVA[/youtube] Think ‘documentary filmmaker’ and you conjure up images of the Maysle Brothers working away in thier Soho loft cutting Gimme Shelter at 3 AM. Not that that was such a bad film. It was great. But documentary filmmaking...
Read moreChimpcam on BBC
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH4_2IZ3vb8[/youtube] Well, here it is at long last. In the bootcamps we like to say that the technology has now gotten so simple that a monkey could shoot a video. Apparently that is not hyperbole. The BBC is about...
Read moreInto The Newsroom
All yours for only $39.95 About a million years ago, or so, I was a PhD candidate in Islamic History. I got out of that business because a) I have a hell of time learning Arabic, and b) with...
Read moreEaten Alive
Bye bye…. Yesterday I spent some time watching Eaten Alive on Animal Planet. There was a story of a man who had an African bot fly growing in his stomach and had to have it surgically removed. Well, you...
Read moreSpawn Journalism
Survival of the fittest Last night, BBC America ran a David Attenborough documentary on Darwin. You probably could not run this on an American network, as it did not give time to ‘intelligent design’, but for the UK it...
Read moreLive Blogging DNA2009
Prepping for the award… Following lunch, the established media got a chance to react to the Google new media threat. Ben Hammersly from Wired Magazine chaired the session, and was joined by Simon Bucks, from Sky news, Pat Loughrey...
Read moreThe Hamas Show
The juxtaposition of two seemingly very disparate articles in the newspaper this morning provide a window into where the whole TV news business is headed.
Read moreThe BBC, Hyperlocal News and VJs
The following comes to me from Alan Morrison in New Zealand – a very loyal correspondent. In 2005 we built 5 hyperlocal news nodes for the BBC in and around Birmingham, England as a test pilot. Each node was...
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