From The Star Ledger
A few images from the Star Ledger’s conversion to video. Courtesy, John O’Boyle
Read moreThe Star Ledger is Kicking Ass!!!!
Just came back from an all-day review session at the Star Ledger in Newark. For the past 2 months, we have been shepherding the 15th largest newspaper in the country into the world of online video, preparing for their...
Read moreFrom the Mailbag
NEW VJ AWARD ANNOUNCED Sabina Streich, Germany’s “VJ Queen” writes to me to day to announce a new VJ Award being offered by the “4th Annual Video Journalism Awards in Mainz, Germany” Mainz, as you may know, was the...
Read moreBe Afraid. Be Very Afraid….
Courtesy, “Buck” at b-roll.net Thanks, Buck, for always including me in your tag line. Our pals over at b-roll.net, the website for professional cameramen, have posted the above photo in response to a local Florida TV Station, Tampa Bay...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – Texas!
“The eyes of Texas are upon you… all the live long day!” OK. It’s July in Austin, so it’s hot. Really hot. But San Antonio is providing us with tons of material to shoot. At the invitation of Texas...
Read moreBikini Car Wash
Not too long ago, one of our less than supportive friends (hard to believe but true), was asking ‘what happened to all the VJs from 5Takes? Are they working’. Well, strangely enough, yesterday, I ran in to Francisco Aliwalas,...
Read moreNewspapers to Video 3
All across the country, newspapers are racing to embrace video. It makes sense. First newspapers go the web because it’s the best way for them to get their information into people’s homes. Then, the web goes to video. The...
Read moreShhhhhh…..
who? Spent all this week working with a major publishing client to convert their very well known print products to video. Can’t talk about it. Publisher says so. Then, got an email from a good friend executive inside a...
Read moreThe New Economics
Shall we dance? Billionaire Mark Cuban asks the following question on his blog: “Are content producers prepared to reduced production costs….by 88%” Cuban asks this as a rhetorical question, trying to demonstrate the almost destructive economics of video and...
Read moreOn in 3….2…..
Two weeks to go…. I graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. It was so long ago, that we still used manual typewriters. It was so long ago, that we still cut video on RM450s. (wait…some...
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