VJ Stations in Holland
We are in Utrecht, Netherlands, this week, working with RTV, the Dutch state broadcaster – a kind of Dutch BBC. We have been working with RTV for the past 3 years, and visits to the Netherlands are a regular...
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We have just spent the past two days meeting with VJs from all across Sweden. But first, some background. In 1999, I got a phone call from a Swedish journalist named Leif Hedman. He was a TV reporter for...
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I am blogging live from the SVT (Swedish State Broadcasting) videojournalist conference in Vilhelmina, Sweden. I will have a complete report on this by the end of the day. It’s a 2-day conference with VJs from all over Sweden....
Read moreTV Sucks – Part IV
Oatmeal at 11 If you work in a newsroom as a reporter, you know that the most exciting moment is when you come back from a big story, enter the newsroom and turn to your colleagues and say ”...
Read moreComrade Couric – The People’s Choice
Is TV News the last vestige of the Soviet Union? Think about it. In the Soviet Union there was no choice. One brand of toothpaste. One kind of car. One kind of phone. Take it or leave it. When...
Read moreOne Degree-itis
SOME ADVICE FROM A GIANT My mentor in this business was Fred Friendly. He was Edward R. Murrow’s producer, the former President of CBS News, and a moose of a man. He resigned from his postion as President of...
Read moreA Trip Into Hell
Yesterday, I descended into the jaws of Hell… or at least it looked that way. I went down a long series of rickety, narrow metal stairs to a massive construction site under what used to be The World Trade...
Read moreResponding to TVjobs.com
The website tvjobs.com just ran a piece by Randy Tatano, in which he talks about the one time he picked up a camera in a newsroom and ended up shooting his feet. His advice to an aspiring young journalist...
Read morePublic Broadcasting Speech
Here’s a link (if you’ve got time) to a video of the keynote speech I gave in Boston last week at the public broadcasting conference. (Video courtesy PBS). http://www.integratedmedia.org/nav.cfm?cat=14&subcat=123&subsub=0
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