You Are There – All The Time Now
Engraving by Willy Stöwer: Der Untergang der Titanic 1912 by Wikicommons Media When the Titanic went down in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912, it was one of the very first ships in the world equipped with a new-fangled...
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Walter Scott murder caught on iPhone Last week, following the MoJoCon in Dublin, there followed a heated discussion about the value of the ‘journalist’, culminating (perhaps) in an article in The Guardian by Roy Greenslade. My argument had...
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For Sale: SONY PS3 Hardy Used. $55 million In 1992, the United States signed the SALT Treaty. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. The treaty would both limit nuclear weapons and begin a scale-back on those that existed. To comply...
Read moreThe Irish Rebellion, The Printing Press & The iPhone
The Easter Rising, (Éirí Amach na Cáscaone), of the most significant events in Irelands long march to independence from British rule, occurred on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916 and lasted for six days. The British army responded with crushing...
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My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1971 Photo WIkileaks Commons / Library of Congress Vietnam was called “The Livingroom War”. That’s because it was the first war in US history that came along with live television coverage. For the first time,...
Read moreA New Kind of Magazine Journalist
Last week, I found myself at The Oval, in London. As an American, I had no idea what “The Oval” was, but as soon as I told the taxi driver he knew. “Cricket!” he said. For me, “cricket” goes...
Read moreRTE Raises the iPhone Bar
@philipbromwell shoots and astonishing broadcast piece with an iPhone for RTE/Ireland @GlenBMulcahy has always been on the cutting edge of the use of new technologies for broadcast and journalism, but now he takes RTE to an entirely new level...
Read moreNow It’s All iPhone All The Time
Dublin Dockers by Philip Bromwell, RTE/Ireland There is no question that the iPhone is a real game-changer for video – and apparently for television. We have done an increasing number of video trainings with iPhones only – most recently...
Read moreWatching The Future of TV News in London
iPhones all around There was a pretty funny announcement this morning from Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo: “News is definitely a daily habit for our users,” said Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, “and Katie will work with our talented editorial team...
Read moreSky News’ Joe Daunt Shoots His Own Marathon on an iPhone for Air
POV. Joe Daunt, a VJ reporter we trained for Sky News’ Tyne and Wear (near Newcastle, UK), sent me this report that aired last week. He took part in the BUPA (it’s a health company in the UK) Great...
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