A Tale of Two Newsrooms
NBC affiliate, San Diego The Telegraph – London Take a look at the two newsrooms above.
Read moreBreakfast with Richard Bookstaber
This morning we had breakfast with my friend and neighbor Richard Bookstaber on the back deck of his house in the Hamptons. It is on the water and the views were incredible, as was the food.
Read moreMeet Andre Zalbertus
He was also the Moscow correspondent for German television…. Andre Zalbertus is someone you should get to know.
Read moreGood Morning America
“We’ll be back with sports and weather after this….” Yesterday, we were talking about Videovolunteers and the idea of empowering local people with cameras, edits and training. This reminded me of a story. Stick with it, it has an...
Read moreThe Information "Explosion"
This just in…… Several years ago I was invited to take over a course at New York University. The man teaching it, Ed Diamond, had died just a few days before school was to start.
Read moreNetworked News
“…. can anyone help me?” New technologies often precipitate a completely new way of looking at the world. It is not only jobs or industries that are overturned, but often what were once assumed to be basic rules of...
Read moreWhat is News? What Could It Be?
all the news that fits we print…. What is news? The first newspaper was printed in Germany in 1608, some 150 years after the invention of the printing press. Its format, for the most part, has not changed since....
Read moreDebatable, part 2
Tonight at 7PM…. Lincoln v. Douglass. Tune in…. In 1858, Abraham Lincoln, Republican candidate for the Senate from Illinois, and Stephen Douglass, Democratic candidate conducted a series of seven debates across the state of Illinois. In these debates, each...
Read moreLetter from Palo Alto
There’s a pile of money buried in here… somewhere… Ken Krushel and I are out here in Palo Alto this week trying to raise financing for CTZN.TV.
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