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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...
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Series Producer Francisco Aliwalas prepares for another fast turn …. Cliff Etzel makes a very cogent point in his response to the LIFE magazine blog: Person experience story: A former Dept head of the Photo dept at a newspaper...
Read morePutting the VJ Army to Work
Adam Kaufmann, VJ at work on Drew Carey’s Sporting World….. In 1990 I formed a company called Video News International. By 1992 I had trained and equipped about 100 VJs around the world. No one had ever heard of...
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....
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3rhfS_P50o] Does this answer your question? The “VJ” question ultimately comes down to one of quality. Recently at RTNDA, news directors raised this question. Gary Brown, ND from KTGV aired this piece. That was pretty much the end of...
Read moreAnd now…. lose the Building….
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zVw7YQwIaw] WKRN GM Mike Sechrist at Bloggers Convention Almost a year ago, Mike Sechrist invited me to come down to Nashville for a Bloggers Convention. I had been to plenty of Current.tv ‘meet ups’, but this was different. These...
Read moreAnchors Away
That works out to…. $144,000.00 per hour… Hooray!!! The Guardian, (and Jeff Jarvis) are reporting today that Mark Thompson, the Director General of the BBC told a committee of Parliament that he foresaw the end of ‘anchors’ in the...
Read moreWho wants to go to South America?
….come on down!!! Last week we completed casting for 5Takes, season four. The photo above is from the New York auditions. Lots of people turned out… and why not? This time we are sending the group to South America.
Read moreThink Small
time for a change……. In 1988, I was invited to a party at Barry Rebo’s loft on 25th Street in NY. Rebo was one of the most aggressive early adapters in the production business. He had brought the first...
Read moreBurn It To The Ground
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6E4fxHc33M] thanks Jeff Jarvis!
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