Travel Channel Academy Results
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YttQxQfYYaY[/youtube] Jeff Day had never touched a video camera or an edit system before he walked into the Travel Channel Academy course in DC on Thursday. We put him through our extremely rigorous 4-day video bootcamp. We emphasize excellence....
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We left Nevis with plenty of time. You have to take a boat from Nevis to St. Kitts, which is where the airport is. The country is made up of two islands, Nevis and St. Kitts. As I say,...
Read moreThe Hamas Show
The juxtaposition of two seemingly very disparate articles in the newspaper this morning provide a window into where the whole TV news business is headed.
Read moreA Touch of Class
Reunion 2008 I graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. That is a long time ago. So long ago, that we recently celebrated our 25th anniversary. Hard to believe. We had a party (above) at...
Read moreGood Enough
I spent most of the day trying to work on my book, but its hard to maintain focus and my mind drifted. As the aphorism goes, "idle hands are the devil's workshop".
Read moreThe Power of Viral
Guardian Angel It was an eye-opening education in the viral power of the 'new media' Yesterday, after a fairly long hiatus, I picked up on my blog.
Read moreThe End of the Road
The phone rang at 6am yesterday morning and it was my mother in Miami. I knew it was bad news. “Your father is choking”, she said, “I think he is dying”. I knew this call would be coming for...
Read moreThe First Internet
The newspaper business is in trouble. But it's not becasue newspapers don't have value. But I am not so sure that the 'value' is in the news. Maybe it's something else.
Read moreWhere Are Your Priorities?
1959 Caddy. But does democracy hinge on this? Washington, it seems, is not prepared to let the auto industry and Detroit go down the tubes. The bail out is going to happen, even if the White House has to...
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