Extra: Newspaper VJ Kills Local TV News Crew
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96fEcJ1sPlE&hl=en]} The video above was the first news story ever shot by newbie Newark Star Ledger VJ Andre Malok. Malok had just complete his one-week bootcamp. He had never touched a video camera or an edit system before. Now,...
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What’s Your Trip host Andrew Zimmern and EP Sue Norton We’re buried deep in the production of What’s Your Trip. We’ve been busy accumulating videos after the first four shows aired, and now we’ve got more than 300 great...
Read moreThat Old Black Magic
For my next trick…video!!! Since its inception, television has been a ‘dark art’. Complicated. Expensive. Able to be accomplished by only a ‘trained’ few. Magic… or so it seemed. Crate after crate of equipment, lights, gels, cables, booms, wires...
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The first tranche of the Travel Channel staff will complete their bootcamp today. It has been a liberating experience for them. Liberating in that they have now been empowered with the tools and the skills to create content in...
Read moreA Commitment to Literacy
Travel Channel President Pat Younge brings literacy to his staff Television is a strange industry. The New York Times is filled with people who aspire to be print journalists; to be writers. As a result, when you walk into...
Read moreNOTHING HAS CHANGED
Despite the tall glass towers and Armani Casa shops that line the main streets of Shanghai, there is a great deal of Communist China that has remained untouched. The first thing that remains untouched, apparently, is the censorship. While...
Read moreThe Information "Explosion"
This just in…… Several years ago I was invited to take over a course at New York University. The man teaching it, Ed Diamond, had died just a few days before school was to start.
Read moreLetter from Palo Alto
There’s a pile of money buried in here… somewhere… Ken Krushel and I are out here in Palo Alto this week trying to raise financing for CTZN.TV.
Read moreKRON – Two Years Later
works like a newspaper… but in video…. Two years ago this week we started the conversion of KRON4 in San Francisco to the VJ model.
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