On in 3….2…..
Two weeks to go…. I graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. It was so long ago, that we still used manual typewriters. It was so long ago, that we still cut video on RM450s. (wait…some...
Read moreLearning To Live With Infinity
When will it ever end……. Since we first crawled out of the primordeal soup some millenia ago, we have lived in a world of limitations. We quickly learned that after a while we ran out of food…. or water…...
Read moreWe Report…You Decide
Across the blogosphere, many ‘professional’ journalists decry the VJ movement and Citizen Journalism because it is going to ‘debase’ the ‘quality’ of ‘professional’ newsgathering. (so many quotation marks this morning!) Here then, a fantastic example of the professionalism we...
Read moreA Question of Balance
On the other hand….. A disgruntled cameraman posting on Medialine has found a quote from someone who claims to be one of my past students at a station conversion. Says the student: I was a victim MR and was...
Read moreMoments of Revolution
The power of empowering the masses Today we had a visitor at the Travel Channel Academy. A representative from an O&O in Philadelphia, she said that the local news station was starting to get concerned because The Philadelphia Enquirer...
Read moreVideo Literacy
What else is on? For the past 500 years, we have been a print-driven culture. Reading and writing were essential tools to participating in daily life. And just because one learned how to write in school, it did not...
Read moreThe F**k-ups In The Corner
oh yeah…. here’s our online dept… let’s move on…. Yesterday, I had a long phone conversation with a major Canadian broadcaster, much like the BBC. They wanted to talk to me about “Citizen Journalists”. “How do you get people...
Read moreNewspapers to Video 2
[blip.tv ?posts_id=996421&dest=-1] Cancer Care by John O’Boyle This is a piece by Newark Star Ledger VJ John O’Boyle. He shot it, wrote it, voiced it, produced it, and edited it alone. We are now three weeks out from the...
Read moreThe Power of the Press
Best newspaper in the world? Maybe… Last night we had dinner with our friend Gary Younge. He is a columnist for The Guardian, the British newspaper. A paper many believe to be among the world’s best. Gary noted that...
Read moreNewspapers to Video
Live from the newspaper This week The Washington Post announced that they were going to train 300 people in their newsroom to be video literate. Across the country, newspapers are rapidly embracing video. As newspapers and video migrate to...
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