CBS Local News Producer Shoots Story on iPhone
Gio Benitez Gio Benitez, a producer at CBS4, the local TV station in Doral, Florida, shot his entire local news story on his iPhone, then cut the piece on FCP on his laptop and delivered it for air. OK,...
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This just in…. In 1798, Napoleon invaded Egypt. Feeling the pressure of rising unemployment in France, and seeing the power that British colonies had given England, Napoleon set forth with his fleet, first picking off the riches of Malta...
Read moreA Day in the Life of a VJ
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Read moreDoes Twitter Lead to a Monoculture?
Under the skin, all exactly the same… Yet another new piece of software for Twitter, this one called Twittertrends, now allows everyone to see what top ten topics everyone else is twittering about at any given moment. As Techcrunch...
Read moreColumbia Media School
On the other hand…. In 1983 I graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The emphasis was on the journalism. With a capital J. Any discussion of ‘business’ was deemed a dirty word, somehow infecting the ‘purity’...
Read moreThinking Inside the Box
It was there in front of us all along As newspapers desperately grapple to save themselves, their salvation (and the salvation of local TV news as well ) may right in front of them. Newspapers are machines for gathering...
Read moreHello Bolly
She’s the little old lady from Utta Pradesh now… James MacPherson is the publisher of an online website called Pasadena Now. Pasadenanow.com is causing a lot of buzz in the journalism community. Not because it’s hyperlocal news. that’s old...
Read moreThe Eyes of Texas Are Upon You
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beLs4MrxWcs&hl=en&fs=1] [youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8euQHZ0PTM&hl=en&fs=1] First, many thanks to Buck over at b-roll.net. for finding this. Nice research! Austin likes to think of itself as ‘different’ from the rest of Texas. And now, The Austin American-Statesman takes a giant step in moving...
Read moreThe Man Who Came to Breakfast
Notice the marmite…… Jeff Jarvis dropped over for breakfast yesterday. Somewhere between Dubai and Davos, he carved out an hour for a few slices of Sullivan Street Bakery sesame bread and white fish salad. He came over to talk...
Read moreThe Word From Down Under
hopping mad… Pat Younge, President and GM for The Travel Channel sent me a very interesting article from The Australian. JOURNALISTS have been warned they cannot be spectators if they are to survive the new world of media fragmentation...
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