Why The BBC is Training Their Staffs to be VJs
Pat Younge, BBC Chief Creative Officer We are here in Manchester, England, running a 4-day video bootcamp for BBC staffers. This is not news. These people are the producers and directors from BBC Drama and BBC Comedy The same...
Read moreInteractive TV on Channel 4? What Else Is New?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tozDUMW5mzE[/youtube] Not even in reruns In 2004, Pat Younge, now Chief Creative Officer at The BBC, then head of The Travel Channel in the US and I hatched a scheme to air a new kind of television series. It...
Read moreHow We’re Going to Work
OK. You’ll be working right here for the next 40 years… Last week, on the heels of reading The Most Powerful Idea in the World by William Rosen, I paid a visit to Richard Arkwright’s first factory in Derbyshire,...
Read moreThe Shape of Things To Come
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaptVt2Oruo[/youtube] and a little child shall lead them… The video above was sent to me yesterday by Pat Younge, Chief Creative Officer at The BBC. It wasn’t done by anyone at The BBC. It was done by Pat’s 14-year...
Read moreThe BBC Begins to Embrace The Citizen Journalist
Still the best news organization in the world. My friend, Pat Younge, former President of The Travel Channel, now Chief Creative Officer at The BBC, sends me link this morning to an article in The Guardian, about The BBC’s...
Read moreThe BBC’s “Digital Revolution”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeDUGPCDKVA[/youtube] Think ‘documentary filmmaker’ and you conjure up images of the Maysle Brothers working away in thier Soho loft cutting Gimme Shelter at 3 AM. Not that that was such a bad film. It was great. But documentary filmmaking...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy DC
Today we started our 4-day intensive Travel Channel Academy bootcamp here at Travel Channel HQ in DC. Network President Pat Younge addressed the group and explained that it was the goal of the network to create an army of...
Read moreThe President Skypes In
Pat Younge, President and GM for The Travel Channel skypes in to the Academy group. Today is the 2nd day of The Travel Channel Academy in DC. Yesterday, the group went out and shot their first stories. Today they’ll...
Read moreA New Industrial Revolution
Yesterday, Pat Younge, President and GM of The Travel Channel addressed the group here in DC. The group is made up of 40 of his employees, so they paid attention.
Read moreA Commitment to Literacy
Travel Channel President Pat Younge brings literacy to his staff Television is a strange industry. The New York Times is filled with people who aspire to be print journalists; to be writers. As a result, when you walk into...
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