Newspapers Go To Video
feel the power The New York Times has now moved to their new building on 8th Avenue and 41st Street. But deep in the bowels of their old building stand massive printing presses. They were simply too large to...
Read moreA Question from the newspaper folks
“That is so true. I just had a reporter say to me: “I used to know what I was doing when I left the newsroom. I had a pen behind my ear and a notebook in my pocket. But...
Read moreW Eugene Smith and the Video Essay
Welsh Coal Miners by W Eugene Smith 1950 I spent this afternoon at a major New Jersey newspaper with Jeff Jarvis . The paper, like many print publications in this country, is moving into video. This is inevitable. As...
Read moreA Tale of Two Newsrooms
NBC affiliate, San Diego The Telegraph – London Take a look at the two newsrooms above.
Read moreWhat is News? What Could It Be?
all the news that fits we print…. What is news? The first newspaper was printed in Germany in 1608, some 150 years after the invention of the printing press. Its format, for the most part, has not changed since....
Read moreDisposable Content
the burning of the Great Library at Alexandria… the MGM version… This morning we had a meeting with the head of one of the largest newspaper groups in the world, based in the UK. We were early…(which I think...
Read moreWho Lost Afghanistan?
….jeez… it was here a minute ago….. There are several great advantages to living a trans-Atlantic life: You get to rack up endless frequent flier miles. You get to really understand your body clock. You get to see the...
Read moreWhere Are We Going?
“….are we there yet?…..” In the first half of the 20th Century, we had an economy that was based on manufacturing stuff. That is, the bulk of the economy was based on making physical, tangible things, like bricks, or...
Read moreThe Tyranny of Technology
from state of the art to paperweight….. We are moving. We bought an apartment upstairs in the same building, and Monday is moving day. This being Manhattan, we are also doing a great deal of work on the new...
Read moreAnd now…. lose the Building….
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zVw7YQwIaw] WKRN GM Mike Sechrist at Bloggers Convention Almost a year ago, Mike Sechrist invited me to come down to Nashville for a Bloggers Convention. I had been to plenty of Current.tv ‘meet ups’, but this was different. These...
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