A New Kind of Journalism
Net assets: 1.3 billion U.S. dollars When I went to Columbia University the great hero of broadcast journalism was Edward R Murrow. When I went to work at CBS, Murrow’s visage stared out at me in the lobby. Â At...
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[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vg4BTPIqbI&hl=en] If there were an Emmy for dumbness, this one would win. While newspapers embrace video and we debate whether the revolution that Leica brought to photojournalism can be translated to small video cameras, there is another revolution going...
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Did ‘writing for broadcast’ start with him? I was in the back of a taxi this afternoon, and the taxi had a TV in it.
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SOME ADVICE FROM A GIANT My mentor in this business was Fred Friendly. He was Edward R. Murrow’s producer, the former President of CBS News, and a moose of a man. He resigned from his postion as President of...
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