If You Bild It….. will they come?
Email this morning from Pat Younge, President of the Travel Channel.* He sends me a link from The Guardian, that BILD, the German newspaper has partnered with a German supermarket to sell small cameras and field an army of citizen...
Read moreHello Bolly
She’s the little old lady from Utta Pradesh now… James MacPherson is the publisher of an online website called Pasadena Now. Pasadenanow.com is causing a lot of buzz in the journalism community. Not because it’s hyperlocal news. that’s old...
Read moreThe Eyes of Texas Are Upon You
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beLs4MrxWcs&hl=en&fs=1] [youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8euQHZ0PTM&hl=en&fs=1] First, many thanks to Buck over at b-roll.net. for finding this. Nice research! Austin likes to think of itself as ‘different’ from the rest of Texas. And now, The Austin American-Statesman takes a giant step in moving...
Read moreThe Man Who Came to Breakfast
Notice the marmite…… Jeff Jarvis dropped over for breakfast yesterday. Somewhere between Dubai and Davos, he carved out an hour for a few slices of Sullivan Street Bakery sesame bread and white fish salad. He came over to talk...
Read moreThe Word From Down Under
hopping mad… Pat Younge, President and GM for The Travel Channel sent me a very interesting article from The Australian. JOURNALISTS have been warned they cannot be spectators if they are to survive the new world of media fragmentation...
Read moreA Silver Lining
cotton….. Sometimes, in the destruction of one industry lies the seeds of another one. But it is not easy to see. In 1852, the discovery of domestic sources of oil spelled the death knell of the whaling business. In...
Read moreThe Academy – DC
Yesterday, fresh from the flight from London (and what a terrible airport Dulles is), we kicked off the DC training academy. Forty more asipring Videojournalists started the four-day intensive course in video literacy and prepared to join the digital...
Read moreOpen Letter to a Newspaper Editor
Gimme a second… On Monday, I gave a speech to the Society of Editors in the UK. At the end of the speech, we opened the floor to questions, and I was asked by Doug Melloy, the editor of...
Read moreSociety of Editors 08: Michael Rosenblum | Online Journalism Blog
part 2 of the speech Second half of speech to UK Society of Editors on the future of video online. Thanks to Paul Bradshaw for recording an posting this. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.744200&w=425&h=350&fv=] more about “Society of Editors 08: Michael Rosenb…“,...
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