Video Everywhere
Yesterday, a New York City cop made the mistake of cursing out an Uber taxi driver while his passenger recorded the whole thing on video. This was a big mistake, because today he was removed from his job on...
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This is Walter Kigali. He is with the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees. He was part of the training we just completed in Nairobi. Like all the other UN people we trained, he works in some of the...
Read moreEmpowering the United Nations To Report On Their Own
Yesterday, CNN suffered a journalistic disaster It reported that the Supreme Court had thrown out ObamaCare. Wrong! The ‘reporter’ who did this was Kate Bolduan The 2005 graduate of George Washington University who previously worked for a local TV...
Read moreWho Needs National Geographic TV Anyway?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBYPlcSD490&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] stick with it… When Michael Fishbach set out for his day of boating around the beautiful waters of the Sea of Cortez, he probably didn’t think that it would be the day he and his friends would become...
Read moreThe Case for Public Broadcasting
going… going.. gone… There is a scandal going on in Britain. Nothing like this has been seen since the days of Watergate. A newspaper’s unrelenting investigative reporting has already brought down one newspaper, and it’s just the beginning. Before...
Read moreWelcome to The Edit Suite (in the hall)
Here is what a ‘professional’ TV video editing suite looks like. It costs about $500,000. It’s very complicated – and hard to move around. We are here in Geneva this week at UN headquarters. We’ve trained and equipped...
Read moreHow Video Can Save Lives
Just one of 20,000 Somali refugees who have arrived in Kenya this week… The worst drought in 60 years in the Horn of Africa has sparked a severe food crisis and high malnutrition rates, with parts of Kenya and...
Read moreTeaching the UN to Shoot: Why Hope CNN Shows Up?
We are here in Geneva this week training Public Information Officers for the UN who work for UNHCR – the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. These people have come to Geneva from all over the world – Congo...
Read moreWe Train The UN To Tell Their Own Stories to the World
From here off to Kisangani This week we are with the United Nations in Geneva. Or more specifically with UNHCR, or the UN High Commisioner on Refugees. That’s the branch of the UN that deals with refugee crises all...
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