The Newly Liberated
The first tranche of the Travel Channel staff will complete their bootcamp today. It has been a liberating experience for them. Liberating in that they have now been empowered with the tools and the skills to create content in...
Read moreA Commitment to Literacy
Travel Channel President Pat Younge brings literacy to his staff Television is a strange industry. The New York Times is filled with people who aspire to be print journalists; to be writers. As a result, when you walk into...
Read moreThis Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us
I said draw…. It turns out that they’re both in the same business. Newspapers and local TV news stations. They both go out into the community, find stories, process them and then distribute them back to the community, charging...
Read moreThe Shape of Things To Come
Franklin’s press While I am working at the Star Ledger this week, I am also reading Eric Burns’ new book, Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism. It is a fascinating history of the...
Read moreThe Soul of a New Machine
You are looking at a machine. As fast, efficient, lean machine designed for news gathering and information processing. It is the newsroom of the Newark Star Ledger. A newspaper. For more than 300 years, newspapers in this country have...
Read moreNewark Star Ledger TV – Day 1
The job of a newspaper reporter is to go out into the community, gather stories and put them in people’s homes. They used to work only in text and stills. Now we add video. Today, we start our first...
Read moreA Sense of Dedication
At work by the pool Ken Krushel knows what television network news is all about. He was senior vice president of Strategic Planning and Business Development at NBC where he oversaw new media development, including digital broadcast, digital cable...
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