Where Are the VJ Jobs?
OK. Spread out….. One of my favorite BBC series, Life On Mars apparently is coming to the US. I have no doubt that whatever US network picks it up will mangle it in a remake, much like The Office,...
Read moreNewspapers to Video 3
All across the country, newspapers are racing to embrace video. It makes sense. First newspapers go the web because it’s the best way for them to get their information into people’s homes. Then, the web goes to video. The...
Read moreShhhhhh…..
who? Spent all this week working with a major publishing client to convert their very well known print products to video. Can’t talk about it. Publisher says so. Then, got an email from a good friend executive inside a...
Read moreThe New Economics
Shall we dance? Billionaire Mark Cuban asks the following question on his blog: “Are content producers prepared to reduced production costs….by 88%” Cuban asks this as a rhetorical question, trying to demonstrate the almost destructive economics of video and...
Read moreOn 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 moreTravel Channel Academy NY Graduates
Once again, we graduate another class of outstanding new VJs from the TCA. Some of the pieces were just stunning. It never ceases to amaze me what can be accomplished in just 4 days. Congrats to the the class,...
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 moreTravel Channel Academy in NY
We are back in New York for yet another Travel Channel Academy. Joining us here for the session, Lori Rothschild, (above), Executive Producer for Samantha Brown at the Travel Channel. Lori both represents the channel, but is also graduate...
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