Arrested: Driving While Black
Don’t move! This is Bradley Nesbitt. Great guy. Good friend. Talented filmmaker. He has been working for us for the past four years – as a VJ in our Fios1 station in DC, reporting and producing; and as a...
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Ft. Peck Dam, the first cover of LIFE Magazine, by Margaret Bourke White In 1936, when Henry R. Luce launched LIFE Magazine, the world’s first ‘picture’ magazine, it was the depths of the Great Depression. Luce imagined that he...
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From cop who watches TV to TV cop… About a year ago, Jay Russell, a former South Carolina State Trooper appeared at one of our Travel Channel Academy classes in NY. He was the kind of State Trooper who...
Read moreUSA Today Outsources Content to Demand Media
The future has to start somewhere…. OK So here’s the situation: You have newspapers, magazines and TV stations that need more and more content as the web and iPhones continue to consume stuff all the time. At the same...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy Sunday
We’re all here at Travel Channel HQ in Chevy Chase, Md. for the final day of our 4-day intensive bootcamp. We’ll be screening at 3pm. The usual public praise/public humiliation! 🙂 Meanwhile, everyone hard at work
Read moreWhy Citizen Journalism Works
Sir Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton was a cousin of Charles Darwin. Born in 1822, he was an early proponent of eugenics. Well, we all make mistakes. But he was also a scientist who first applied mathematics to social...
Read moreCafe Jew Town
Getting right to the point After 7 days as sea, we made the passage from Mombasa, Kenya to India and this morning, at 7am local time, made landfall in Cochin, India. Needless to say, after 7 days at sea,...
Read moreReport from Travel Channel Academy@Sea
Two of our students head off for Mombasa ready to start filming…. When I was 21 and young and dumb I spent a year crossing Africa overland. I went across the Sahara Desert with the Toureg Bedouin then made...
Read moreYou Push The Button
Kodak….. a good idea at the time In 1888 George Eastman launched Kodak with the motto “You push the button, we do the rest”. Although photography had been around for a while, it was, until Eastman, an expensive and...
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