Anchors 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 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 moreLiving in Infamy
Nothing to fear….. On the morning after the Virginia Tech shootings, the morning news anchors all rushed down to Blacksburg to do their live remotes. Matt Lauer, from the Today show, turned to the camera and announced that yesterday...
Read moreBurn It To The Ground
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6E4fxHc33M] thanks Jeff Jarvis!
Read moreA Guide For the Perplexed
Francisco Aliwalas, videojournalist. There seems to be little question that the ‘VJ’ Revolution is going to happen. It is, of course, more than VJs. It is the entire move to a digtal platform, video online, on phones and all...
Read moreVJ Stations Here to Stay
It’s over! We win! …..and photo by PF Bentley When I started the whole VJ thing some 18 years ago, most people thought I was out of my mind. Technology has caught up with the concept. And now, so...
Read moreNothing Succeeds Like Failure
God’s number one programmer…. One of the reasons television has been so terrible until now is that no one could fail. Failure was too expensive. So we lived in fear. If you are writer, you fail all the time....
Read moreRTNDA Opening Session
Jeff Jarvis (thumb in foreground) takes the job…. Just finished the opening session at RTNDA here in Vegas. I gotta say this for RTNDA – they are grappling with digital, online and VJ issues up front. The entire opening...
Read moreCan VJs Deliver Quality?
Why can’t CBS Evening News look like this? There has been an enormous amount of discussion about whether VJs can deliver a ‘quality product’. As ‘google’ has become a verb, ‘Youtube’ has become an adjective meaning shaky, blue and...
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