Breakfast 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 moreThe Bottom Line
1973 2003 2013 Pay attention to the chart above. It contains the inevitable seeds of the future.
Read moreVideo Volunteers
What is an education worth? Our friend from Fox News writes to ask what is the value of a short training course in video. “How much money can I make from it”? he wants to know.
Read moreSanctuary!!!
`’I learned to shoot at the Travel Channel Academy….why?…” Writer Dan Trigoboff, whom I was on the phone with this evening doing an interview for TVNewsday, draws my attention instead to the second chapter of The Hunchback of Notre...
Read moreCitizeNews
In 2005, I was invited to speak at the Eurasian Median Forum in Almaty, Kazakhstan. I only went for two reasons: First, I wanted to see Almaty. Second, I wanted to meet one of the other speakers –Oh Yeon...
Read moreKRON – Two Years Later
works like a newspaper… but in video…. Two years ago this week we started the conversion of KRON4 in San Francisco to the VJ model.
Read moreFailure at Channel One
Time for a change… I am in London this week, meeting with a number of major newspaper groups who are moving to video online. Once a newspaper goes online, and once online goes to video, it is only a...
Read moreFreedom to Fail
success if only for those who are willing to take risks…. Television is expensive to make. Books are cheap.
Read moreTJ Academy – 2 July sessions – sign up now!
Travel Channel President & GM Pat Younge meets with Academy participants. If you want to break into the TV business, you can’t beat this kind of access…. We are taking enrollment for the Travel Channel Academy. We are running...
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