Radio Free Europe in Prague
Addressing the Directors of RFE/RL This week we are in Prague, running an intensive video bootcamp for the journalists at Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty. This is the third year we have come here to run bootcamps, and the...
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The new building… About four months ago we started a project with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty here in Prague. We took them from radio to video. RFE/RL has some of the most dedicated reporters in the world, working in...
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AVNCiAbd14[/youtube] Driving democracy through video…. A few months ago, we were in Prague, where we ran a pilot bootcamp for Radio Free Europe. When I was young, I remember TV ads for Radio Free Europe. Eastern Europe was then...
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This just in from Tim French, our point person for the Radio Free Europe VJ Project. When Tim is not in Prague, he’s busy training print reporters from The Los Angeles Times to shoot video for the paper. And...
Read moreRosenblum Speaks at Radio Free Europe
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/3779234[/vimeo] takes a minute to cue up…. be patient
Read moreWeapons of Mass Democratization
The first media mogul… Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni understood mass media. While he was still an exile in Paris he began to smuggle audio casettes into the Shah’s Iran. On the tapes, which became wildly popular, he cast the Shah...
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Listen to the technology…. New technologies require new ways of thinking. This is often the hardest thing for us to do. Too often we simply take old ways of working and plug in new technologies. Andy Grove (above), longtime...
Read moreRadio Free Europe goes VJ
Prague… home to RFE We are here in Prague to kick off our first VJ training bootcamp with Radio Free Europe. While RFE is headquartered in Prague, its work today takes place in locations like Kazakhstan or Turkemenstan. And...
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