The Local Wars
All news is local….. In 2004, on the heels of 5 years with the BBC, we started on a second project. Hyperlocal news. The test base was Birmingham, England, and we built 5 ‘hyperlocal news pods” in 5 Birmingham...
Read moreMen At Work
Caution Cameragod writes to us from New Zealand noting: Ok so tell two men they each have to race dig a road. One gets a 10 year but still working fine old bulldozer and the other a brand new...
Read moreThe Show Must Go On…. or must it?
It’s news Jim, but not as we know it…. Yesterday, I found myself on a panel at the Edinburgh Television Festival with the Heads of News at The BBC, Channel 5 and ITN, respectively (r to l). The topic...
Read moreAll In The Family
President Obama is a what???? Passover in Miami with my family and my nephew Adam, a freshman at Washington University in St. Louis, is working on a paper for his “Media and Culture” class. The topic is the impact...
Read moreMorning After TV – LONDON
Terracotta Warrior at the British Museum Tonight, the UK branch of Themorningafter.tv is completing its first project.
Read moreNetworked News
“…. can anyone help me?” New technologies often precipitate a completely new way of looking at the world. It is not only jobs or industries that are overturned, but often what were once assumed to be basic rules of...
Read moreAnchors Away
That works out to…. $144,000.00 per hour… Hooray!!! The Guardian, (and Jeff Jarvis) are reporting today that Mark Thompson, the Director General of the BBC told a committee of Parliament that he foresaw the end of ‘anchors’ in the...
Read morePassed Over?
‘and thou shalt have one person with a camera…’ In 2000, following a speech I gave at Newsworld in Barcelona, The BBC invited me to come to the UK to talk about my ‘VJ in the Newsroom’ concept. Following...
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