What Is News Worth?
Newsroom of The Daily Telegraph Some years ago, I had the pleasure and privilege of meeting Jim Rogers, the self-made billionaire (or maybe it was just hundreds of millions), and partner of George Soros. Of course, I asked him...
Read moreThe Calculus of News and Journalism
Where f is the audience, x is the news value…. When I went to school, there were two kinds of students: Math students and the rest of us. I was decidedly amongst the ‘rest of us’, as anything beyond...
Read moreWhat Is News?
Creating yet another room full of Travel Journalists Yesterday, I wrote a blog entitled ‘Today We Are All Journalists”. I also published this in the Huffington Post (which gets a slightly – though only very slightly) greater readership than my...
Read moreWhy TV News is SO VERY TERRIBLE (and why ratings keep dropping)
same old.. same old… When television was launched by David Sarnoff at the 1939 World’s Fair in NY, no one knew what to do with it. Think Internet 1992. But they knew what to do with radio. Radio was...
Read moreWhat I Learned at BET
Pretty much everyone knows that television news is terrible. It is unwatchable. It is crap. The people who know this the best are the people who are actually in the business. They aren’t kidding anyone, least of all themselves....
Read moreBET News VJ Bootcamp Starts Today
Tiffany Tate and a dozen others… Today we start another intensive VJ bootcamp with BET News. The journalists at BET are going to work as VJs, shooting and reporting and editing their own stories. This is a four-day professional...
Read moreHow To Make Great TV News
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Here they are, all the secrets so that you, or indeed anyone, can make great TV news stories. Special thanks to Heather Tilert, former producer of Wonderpets for this one.
Read moreShould News Take Place in the Public Place?
Everyone has a story to tell… The Knight Foundation has informed me that I have made it to the second round for the Knight News Challenge. My proposal is to hand out 1,000 flipcams in Newark, NJ and put...
Read moreMany Voices
A digital mosaic of the world in real time We are a world whose parameters are set by technology, yet we are slow to respond. When the technology of communications allowed us only 3 television channels, all programs were...
Read moreRethinking News
Listen to the technology…. New technologies require new ways of thinking. This is often the hardest thing for us to do. Too often we simply take old ways of working and plug in new technologies. Andy Grove (above), longtime...
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