The Shape of Things To Come
Franklin’s press While I am working at the Star Ledger this week, I am also reading Eric Burns’ new book, Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism. It is a fascinating history of the...
Read moreThe Soul of a New Machine
You are looking at a machine. As fast, efficient, lean machine designed for news gathering and information processing. It is the newsroom of the Newark Star Ledger. A newspaper. For more than 300 years, newspapers in this country have...
Read moreNewark Star Ledger TV – Day 1
The job of a newspaper reporter is to go out into the community, gather stories and put them in people’s homes. They used to work only in text and stills. Now we add video. Today, we start our first...
Read moreA Sense of Dedication
At work by the pool Ken Krushel knows what television network news is all about. He was senior vice president of Strategic Planning and Business Development at NBC where he oversaw new media development, including digital broadcast, digital cable...
Read moreFlash! Bananas Grow in Central Park!
When I was a student at Williams College, about a million years ago, my Econ 101 professor, Randy Bartlett told us that the basics of economics could be understood by two axioms: 1. There is not such thing as...
Read moreA Newspaper Leads the Way in Video
Newark – focal point for a revolution in video New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the country. It is also the second wealthiest state in the country. Strange then, that such a rich and powerful state...
Read moreThe Power of Technology
Tony Horwitz I bought Tony Horwitz’s new book, A Voyage Long and Strange just prior to getting on a plane at Santa Barbara airport. By the time I landed in Newark, I had finished the book. It is one...
Read moreWe Open in Santa Barbara
Finally! Yesterday, we added Santa Barbara to our locations for the Travel Channel Academy. And what a nice place it is! We are housed at the Brooks Institute for photography, right in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara, and...
Read moreRequiem for a Network
Barbarians at the Gate: Odoacer takes the number one slot, prime time and otherwise 1976 marked the fifteen hundredth anniversary of the fall of the Roman Empire. It passed pretty much unnoticed. 1976 had been the 200th anniversary of...
Read moreAre Newspapers Poised to Replace Local TV Stations?
Please Stand By…… Its called ‘leapfrog technology’. Its the ability to bypass an old infrastructure completely and go immediately to what the newest technologies can create. Vietnam’s adaptation of mobile phone technology is an example of leapfrog. Rather than...
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