Star 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 moreThis Just In…
Here’s the headline: End Of Discussion! Yesterday, our regular reader from Fox wrote to me: The day that paper, or any other in the country, covers the headline story of the day, every day, with a video version, is...
Read moreBack To Life
That’s life In 1936, Time Magazine publisher Henry R. Luce bought the rights to the name LIFE and founded a magazine that would come to dominate print journalism for nearly forty years. Luce turned LIFE into the world’s first...
Read moreThe Chosen
This just in….. Television did not appear as a gift from God. The Lord did not appear before Sarnoff, Paley and Goldensohn in the form of a burning bush and select them to carry His word forth. No one...
Read moreLedger Live – Starts Monday
Beyond empowering the photogs and reporters at The Star Ledger with video cameras so that they can embed their videos on the website, we are also going to do a daily ‘live from the newsroom’ report. The newsroom seems...
Read moreExtra! Read all about it..
Newspapers are pretty easy to understand. At least, the way they gather the news. If you have ever worked at a newspaper you understand immediately how it works. “Here’s the pencil. There’s the door. See you at 6.” It’s...
Read moreFrom The Star Ledger
A few images from the Star Ledger’s conversion to video. Courtesy, John O’Boyle
Read moreNewspapers to Video 3
All across the country, newspapers are racing to embrace video. It makes sense. First newspapers go the web because it’s the best way for them to get their information into people’s homes. Then, the web goes to video. The...
Read moreOn in 3….2…..
Two weeks to go…. I graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. It was so long ago, that we still used manual typewriters. It was so long ago, that we still cut video on RM450s. (wait…some...
Read moreNewspapers to Video 2
[blip.tv ?posts_id=996421&dest=-1] Cancer Care by John O’Boyle This is a piece by Newark Star Ledger VJ John O’Boyle. He shot it, wrote it, voiced it, produced it, and edited it alone. We are now three weeks out from the...
Read more