The Impact of Commonality
You push the button, we do the rest In this week’s New Yorker, John Updike reviews The Art of the American Snapshot, published by The National Gallery of Art and Princeton University. Its a fascinating book about how snapshots...
Read moreForeign Correspondents Talk
Speaking at the White House Press Photographer’s Association on how to make the transition from still photographer to videojouranlist, and more significantly, how to earn a living in this new field.
Read moreMichael Yamashita – Pitching The Travel Channel
Welcome to the world of Michael Yamashita.
Read moreThis Is What Journalism Has Become….
June 8, 1972. Nick Ut, (Huynh Cong Ut), captures this Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of Phan Thị Kim Phúc. The 9 year old girl running toward the camera to flee a South Vietnamese napalm attack on the Trang Bang village...
Read morePicture This
Videojournalist PF Bentley and Gulfstream during Drew Carey’s Sporting World shoot in Germany. (Gulftream is not Bentley’s). There is a red herring swimming about claiming that VJ is a code term for 23 year olds with no experience and...
Read moreWhat Does It Look Like?
images that once could move a nation….. In November, 1936, Henry Luce, founder of Time Magazine gave birth to a new publication: LIFE. We barely remember it now, but at one time LIFE was an American icon. People waited...
Read moreSechrist + Rosenblum = Professional VJ Training
Now available to anyone……. Mike Sechrist, GM forWKRN is leaving his job. He was and remains one of the greatest champions of the VJ model. And at WKRN he made it work, and showed massive profits from his website....
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 moreThe Power of an Image
Do you ‘feel’ the power…… In the world of painting we have Picasso, Rembrandt or Jackson Pollack. In music we have Beethoven, Mozart or Bono. In literature, Shakespeare, Dickens or Melville. But in TV, whom do we have? Katie...
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