Church & State
Go make money…. My friend and Columbia classmate Barbara Selvin is a professor of journalism at Stony Brook on Long Island. Every year, she invites me to come and talk to the class. Â I am going on Friday. Yesterday,...
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I’m currently working on a piece about homeless people in San Francisco Why are we such wimps? Journalism is in utter collapse and we wander around asking whether perhaps the answer is not to turn the New York Times...
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Survival of the fittest Last night, BBC America ran a David Attenborough documentary on Darwin. You probably could not run this on an American network, as it did not give time to ‘intelligent design’, but for the UK it...
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The art surrounds you… I just got off the phone (if that is not too archaic a term) with Bucharest, Romania. I was the keynote speaker at the Romania Media Conference. They originally offered to fly me to Bucharest,...
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This just in…. In 1798, Napoleon invaded Egypt. Feeling the pressure of rising unemployment in France, and seeing the power that British colonies had given England, Napoleon set forth with his fleet, first picking off the riches of Malta...
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All the news… In 1988 when I quit my job at CBS News and moved into Gaza with a small video camera, the very idea of doing that was rare. There wasn’t a lot of in-depth coverage coming out...
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Live from the park… Georges Seurat… NPR New technologies drive new ideas….but it often isn’t a pretty.. or obvious process. The advent of photography toward the end of the 19th Century spelled the death knell for a generation of...
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You don’t often get a whole revolution in one day… On Saturday, Jeff Jarvis and I will conduct a one-day intensive seminar on The Video Revolution at the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of NY. The...
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Shirt 1 – 36×48…. and for sale! There is an expression called ‘high tech-high touch’. It means that in a high-tech world, there is a naturall attraction to high touch, or non technical things. Like writing with a fountain...
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