Anchors Away
That works out to…. $144,000.00 per hour… Hooray!!! The Guardian, (and Jeff Jarvis) are reporting today that Mark Thompson, the Director General of the BBC told a committee of Parliament that he foresaw the end of ‘anchors’ in the...
Read moreCan VJs Deliver Quality?
Why can’t CBS Evening News look like this? There has been an enormous amount of discussion about whether VJs can deliver a ‘quality product’. As ‘google’ has become a verb, ‘Youtube’ has become an adjective meaning shaky, blue and...
Read moreListen Up!
Jack Hitt…. A real journalist….. Congratulations to my old friend Jack Hitt who just won a Peabody for his story on “Gitmo” on This American Life. He and I both went to Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (’83),...
Read moreDead Man Talking
Hello? eBay? Thomas Edison was an entrepreneur. When he invented the phonograph in 1877 he also incorporated the Edison Speaking Phonograph Company. The idea was to sell phonographs – something which had never existed before. To create demand and...
Read moreFrom The Guardian: Newspapers to Video
Michael Rosenblum is a former New York Times executive whose consultancy practice now provides training in video journalism all over the world for clients including the BBC. “Newspapers are very well placed to take advantage of web video –...
Read moreThe Unforseen Consequences of Innovation
Youtube started with him. When Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1452, he was hoping for a quick kill. He was deep in debt and his idea was to print bibles faster and cheaper than Monks could write them...
Read moreA Trip Into Hell
Yesterday, I descended into the jaws of Hell… or at least it looked that way. I went down a long series of rickety, narrow metal stairs to a massive construction site under what used to be The World Trade...
Read moreBreaking News
About 10 years ago, when The New York Times was first starting NYTimes.com, most of the newspaper’s senior staff were nervous about the web. They did not feel anything should appear on the website until it had already been...
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