Newspapers Embrace Video In A Big Way
In 1994, Punch Sulzberger, the owner and publisher of The New York Times bought my company, Video News International. It became New York Times TV, and for two years I served as President of NY Times TV. The idea...
Read moreUSA Today Outsources Content to Demand Media
The future has to start somewhere…. OK So here’s the situation: You have newspapers, magazines and TV stations that need more and more content as the web and iPhones continue to consume stuff all the time. At the same...
Read moreTime To Grow Up
Tonight, on NBC News… Yesterday, the LA Times ran a very interesting story that says a lot about the old Mainstream Media. Brian Williams, so the paper reports, reacted to a story in RadarOnline.com that Supreme Court Chief Justice...
Read moreAnd Now It’s Official
Do you think they have enough cameras on that boat? In 1988 we introduced the concept of VJ Newsgathering in Norway at TV Bergen. In 1990 we did it with NY1 in New York for Time/Warner. In 1993 we...
Read moreThe Soloist – A Documentary on the Death of Newspapers
Emmy for best documentary? Flying trans-Atlantic once a week gives you two things: -Lots of frequent flyer miles -A chance to see just about every movie there is. Virgin Atlantic offers a wide range of films, and being captive...
Read moreReport from Prague
This just in from Tim French, our point person for the Radio Free Europe VJ Project. When Tim is not in Prague, he’s busy training print reporters from The Los Angeles Times to shoot video for the paper. And...
Read moreGood Luck Tim French!
Tim works with Dutch Public TV I first met Tim French when I was at Oxygen Media. I had come to train 90 VJs to produce their day to day content. Tim was a staff editor, but he was...
Read moreLA Times Goes Harry Potter (well why not)
Video ‘in’ a newspaper? Why not? In 1990, I ran a VJ training bootcamp in Chiang Mai, Thailand. One of the participants was the Voice of American Bureau Chief for Kabul, Afghanistan – Scott Anger. He had been a...
Read more