The Ministry of Truth
Guaranteed 100% true. You can count on it. Last week, ‘citizen journalism’ (more on this term in a minute) suffered its first major crisis….maybe. A CNN iReporter posted an iNews item (lots of i’s here), that Apple CEO Steve...
Read moreHe Gets It
In early 1994, I was approached by a man named Sir David English, one of the greatest newspapermen and journalists in British history. He was going to build the first 24-hour TV news channel in London. It would be...
Read moreStar Ledger Lives!
[blip.tv ?posts_id=1318322&dest=-1] The Star Ledger, New Jersey’s biggest newspaper seemed, for a while, to be in trouble. All newspapers are in trouble today, but parent Conde Nast was threatening to sell the paper unless the unions took a number...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy New York
Once again, we are back in NY to kick off another Academy. 40 folks from as far away as Maui and England have come together in NY for 4 days that will change their lives.
Read moreA Soldier’s Story
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj41zkUuGCc&hl=en&fs=1] Pat Lafferty is an old marine. He’s also Chief Creative Officer at The Travel Channel. Pat Younge, President and GM for the Travel Channel has instructed that all 250 employees of the Channel take the 4-day TCA Bootcamp...
Read moreOn Second Thought
He ‘got’ the new media…. On Friday, I was interviewed by Brian Lamb for Q&A on C-Span. (Sunday nights at 8pm) The interview was a grueling 57 minutes without commerical breaks, and unedited. Lamb threw me a few questions...
Read moreStewart and Me
Stewart Pittman, one of the most literate and articulate lensmen in the business has a daily blog that I like a lot. You can link it on the right. Today, he posts on his visit to the News Museum,...
Read morePulitzer & Youtube offer $10,000 Prize for Citizen Journalism
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQn8pcZ64MI&hl=en&fs=1] For the fifth year, we are offering our €10,000 prize for the best VJ piece through our DNA2009 conference (Brussels, March 4-5). Now Youtube (which has a LOT more money than we do!!!) in partnership with Pulitzer is...
Read moreImages from TCA NY
Travel Channel President Pat Younge addresses the group Mrs Rosenblum explains how to Learn Shoot and Earn
Read moreReport from MediaOn
não falo português Last night I gave the keynote address to open MediaOn 2008 in Sao Paolo, Brazil. The conference was sponsored by Itau Cultural. It’s a gathering of broadcasters, newspapers and online journalists from all across Latin America....
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