A Camera as the Pencil
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nhGl1VbAig&rel=1]] Sean Smith is a full time Videojournalist with The Guardian, the UK newspaper. He is one of a new breed of journalists who carry their own small digital camera and report on their own. Last week he won...
Read moreOn The Cutting Edge
Americans like to believe that they are on the cutting edge of technology. Sometime they are. Sometimes they are not. When it come to the VJ Revolution, they are pretty much playing catch-up with Europe. Most European media companies...
Read moreGood Luck Tim French!
Tim works with Dutch Public TV I first met Tim French when I was at Oxygen Media. I had come to train 90 VJs to produce their day to day content. Tim was a staff editor, but he was...
Read moreWhy It Takes 40 Years
Thou shalt have one man crews…. In the Good Book, in the Book of Exodus, the Jews wander in the desert for 40 years before they reach the Promised Land. They don’t wander for 40 years because they were...
Read moreOf Papyrus and Video
Too expensive to wrap fish in…. Ever wonder why Linear B, the Greek script, goes from right to left? So do Hebrew and Arabic… while English, French, Italian and all western languages go from left to right? Here’s a...
Read moreTHE TRUTH ABOUT KRON
The KRON Newsroom – more like a newsroom, less like The Office. There is no question that Young Broadcasting has had its share of woes. After paying far too much for KRON, and then suffering a war with GE...
Read moreConcentra Award Nominees
The nominations for this year’s Concentra Award for outstanding video journalism, sponsored by Avid, have been announced. The nominated entries can be viewed at www.theconcentra.org. “The subject matter and quality of this year’s entries are a clear indication that...
Read moreThe Cameraman Speaks
The quandry for professional cameramen – Jim Long contemplates the future Alex Lucas was a VJ that I trained in Nashville at WKRN. He was a cameraman making the transition to VJ. He was very good at it. About...
Read moreVJ and The Election
If the first place new technologies find their ‘home’ is pornography, the second is generally politics. (Not that the two are that closely related). An article in yesterday’s NY Times brought this point into sharp focus. The demands of...
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