Sanctuary!!!
`’I learned to shoot at the Travel Channel Academy….why?…” Writer Dan Trigoboff, whom I was on the phone with this evening doing an interview for TVNewsday, draws my attention instead to the second chapter of The Hunchback of Notre...
Read moreCitizeNews
In 2005, I was invited to speak at the Eurasian Median Forum in Almaty, Kazakhstan. I only went for two reasons: First, I wanted to see Almaty. Second, I wanted to meet one of the other speakers –Oh Yeon...
Read moreKRON – Two Years Later
works like a newspaper… but in video…. Two years ago this week we started the conversion of KRON4 in San Francisco to the VJ model.
Read moreFailure at Channel One
Time for a change… I am in London this week, meeting with a number of major newspaper groups who are moving to video online. Once a newspaper goes online, and once online goes to video, it is only a...
Read moreWikimedia???
…”and when we come back, sports and weather…” In 1979, Iranian militants took the US Embassy hostage. They would hold it for 444 days.
Read moreTwo Pieces from KGTV Bootcamp
The KGTV bootcamp is proceeding extremely well. So well in fact that I am already posting two of the ‘training’ pieces, done on the fourth day of training. Looks like everyone has done a great job, but as I...
Read moreThe Future of Local TV News?
is this the future of tv news?
Read moreTC Academy Goes Live
….from pilot to reality….. In the TV business, one first does a pilot. If it rates it goes to series. In March of this year, we ran a pilot of our Travel Channel Academy in partnership with The Travel...
Read moreKGTV Part 4
…now we’ve reached critical mass…. This week, we returned to KGTV for the fourth VJ (or as they call it here), DC (for Digital Correspondent) bootcamp. There are 10 journalists, camerapeople, editors, producers as well as one assignment editor...
Read moreCarpe Medium – Part 1
Is this the face of the future? The New York Times ran a fascinating piece today in the Entertainment section about Rosie O’Donnell’s webcasts. Having left The View, and network television, lately she has taken to webcasting her own...
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