The New York Times, The BBC & Video
The future face of The New York Times The New York Times Company today announced that they were hiring Mark Thompson, former Director General of The BBC to be the new President and CEO of The Times Company. The...
Read moreNewspapers Embrace Video In A Big Way
In 1994, Punch Sulzberger, the owner and publisher of The New York Times bought my company, Video News International. It became New York Times TV, and for two years I served as President of NY Times TV. The idea...
Read moreBetter Late Than Never Dept.
All screens are pretty much the same. In 1994, The New York Times bought a videojournalism business IÂ had founded called VNI, Video News International. I had equipped 100 journalists around the world with Hi-8 (this was a long timea...
Read moreMao & Murdoch, Lies and Videotape
Before there were Flipcams… “Power”, Chairman Mao wrote in the Little Red Book, “flows from the barrel of a gun”. Mao was a product of an earlier era. It turns out that increasingly, power flows from the lens of...
Read more[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h_sZQHe0Vg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] If this is ‘state of the art’, I think we can all do better… For a long time we have been saying that video will soon become the dominant medium online for just about everything – from...
Read moreArt & Artifice in Newspapers and TV News
Admiral Richard Byrd… come on now.. try and look cold… A fascinating piece in the NY Times today revealed that the paper ran a photo studio in it’s building on West 43rd Street where the famous and near famous...
Read moreArthur Sulberger Say NYT Will End Print…. What Now?
how long? Yesterday, in London at the WAN-IFRA conference, New York Times Chairman and CEO Arthur Sulzberger Jr. announced that “We will stop printing The New York Times sometime in the future, date TBD.” This is, of course, both...
Read moreThe Very Strange World of The New York Times
hello Bob? Hello? Are you there? Hello Bob? OK So on Sunday I read Bob Herbert’s column in The New York Times, and I posted a response. It was the normal, predictable kvetch about how people on blackberries and...
Read moreA Model for a New Journalism
Harness the power that is already out there. New technologies are a bitch. They’re a bitch because you can’t argue with them – or even have a rational discussion. When automobiles were invented at the turn of the century,...
Read moreWiFi at the Monastery
6 bedrooms, 3 baths, built in 1274. Good condition. This week we are living at Renscombe Farm in the village of Worth Matravers on the south coast of England. The house was once a monastery, built in the 13th...
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