NBC Network News Goes VJ
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[Youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HblwE0Opgfc&rel=1]] Foot Patrol by Raul Gallego Abellan. On March 3-4 we will conduct what I hope will be the world’s largest global VJ conference, DNA2008 in Brussels. As part of that conference, we will award our annual VJ Prize...
Read moreUnstoppable
Get out of the way!!!! In 1821, George Stephenson, the ‘father of railways’ build the world’s first commercially viable steam railway between Darlington and Stockton-on-Tees, a distance of 14 miles. The train was not fast, It took nearly two...
Read moreA Question from the newspaper folks
“That is so true. I just had a reporter say to me: “I used to know what I was doing when I left the newsroom. I had a pen behind my ear and a notebook in my pocket. But...
Read moreDetroit Homicide
USING VJ SKILLS TO PILOT NEW SHOWS NBC’s Jeff Zucker just made the (to my mind) unusual announcement that henceforth NBC would not longer engage in piloting. This strikes me as a bit strange. I guess when you spend...
Read moreWhy VJs are Inevitable
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Read moreKRON goes on the Block
Young Broadcasting announced today that is putting KRON, its San Francisco station up for sale. KRON was one of three stations we took into the full-blown VJ model in 2004/5. The people at KRON undertook an enormous amount of...
Read moreWhat I Learned from Charles Kuralt
On The Road to making better video…. When we train VJs now, we train them to work in very different ways. One of the ways we differ is that we teach them to lay in all the pictures first...
Read moreThe AP goes VJ
Job Vacancies Bowing to the inevitable, and opening the door to lots of other newsgathering agencies, AP joints NBC in moving to VJs: Video Journalist Closing Date: 7 December 2007 Ref No: APTN102 Department: News The Associated Press is...
Read more$14,000 VJ Prize
Once again, this year, we are offering a prize of $14,000 for the world’s best VJ piece. (It is actually 10,000 Euros, but thanks to quality management of the US economy by the Bush Administration, the Euro, (once with...
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