The Soul of a New Machine
You are looking at a machine. As fast, efficient, lean machine designed for news gathering and information processing. It is the newsroom of the Newark Star Ledger. A newspaper. For more than 300 years, newspapers in this country have...
Read moreNewark Star Ledger TV – Day 1
The job of a newspaper reporter is to go out into the community, gather stories and put them in people’s homes. They used to work only in text and stills. Now we add video. Today, we start our first...
Read moreFlash! Bananas Grow in Central Park!
When I was a student at Williams College, about a million years ago, my Econ 101 professor, Randy Bartlett told us that the basics of economics could be understood by two axioms: 1. There is not such thing as...
Read moreA Newspaper Leads the Way in Video
Newark – focal point for a revolution in video New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the country. It is also the second wealthiest state in the country. Strange then, that such a rich and powerful state...
Read moreAre Newspapers Poised to Replace Local TV Stations?
Please Stand By…… Its called ‘leapfrog technology’. Its the ability to bypass an old infrastructure completely and go immediately to what the newest technologies can create. Vietnam’s adaptation of mobile phone technology is an example of leapfrog. Rather than...
Read moreCollateral Damage
During the Vietnam War it was called Collateral Damage. You called in air support and the next thing you knew, they were dropping explosives on your own position Bombing was not a precise science in those days. State of...
Read moreWhen Photographers Go To Video
David Hume Kennerly In 1990, on the heels of NY1, I was approached by a Wall Street guy who suggested that I should raise some money and start my own company based on the VJ concept. He took me...
Read moreWe Take The Newark Star Ledger to Video
The morning meeting – now its print, online and video This morning we began a project we have been awaiting with great anticipation- taking The Newark Star Ledger into the world of video. The Star Ledger is the 15th...
Read moreToward a New Grammar for Video
Photography in the 1860s was expensive, complex and heavy There is a direct correlation between technology and grammar – that is a direct relationship between the way something is made, and the way it looks. This is particularly true...
Read moreWhen Professions Die
In 1940, linotype operators were the highest paid union workers in the country. A generation later, they were gone. Technology rendered their once irreplaceable task utterly worthless. Linotype, for those who are too young to remember, was a method...
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