The Law of Unintended Consequences
Sir Thomas More by Holbein 1593 New technologies often bring with unintended consequences. No matter how sure and certain our morals or beliefs may start out, they can turn our worlds upside down. Sir Thomas More was Henry VIII’s...
Read moreEyes on the Prize
Selling last year’s rug on eBay… We are gearing up for this year’s DNA2009 Digital News Conference in Brussels. The headline for all VJs is that we are once again awarding our €10,000 prize for the best VJ piece...
Read moreWhat Can You Believe?
Cover the world… People like to say that we are awash in information. Actually, nothing could be farther from the truth. We have until now lived in a world of very limited information. It may have been broadcast globally,...
Read moreHe Gets It
In early 1994, I was approached by a man named Sir David English, one of the greatest newspapermen and journalists in British history. He was going to build the first 24-hour TV news channel in London. It would be...
Read moreStar Ledger Lives!
[blip.tv ?posts_id=1318322&dest=-1] The Star Ledger, New Jersey’s biggest newspaper seemed, for a while, to be in trouble. All newspapers are in trouble today, but parent Conde Nast was threatening to sell the paper unless the unions took a number...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy New York
Once again, we are back in NY to kick off another Academy. 40 folks from as far away as Maui and England have come together in NY for 4 days that will change their lives.
Read moreA Soldier’s Story
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj41zkUuGCc&hl=en&fs=1] Pat Lafferty is an old marine. He’s also Chief Creative Officer at The Travel Channel. Pat Younge, President and GM for the Travel Channel has instructed that all 250 employees of the Channel take the 4-day TCA Bootcamp...
Read moreEmpowering Women – Real Reality
One of the most important aspects of the Video Revolution is the empowerment of women. When I first started working at WCBS News in NY, there was one camerawoman on the staff. She was considered something of an oddity...
Read moreOn Second Thought
He ‘got’ the new media…. On Friday, I was interviewed by Brian Lamb for Q&A on C-Span. (Sunday nights at 8pm) The interview was a grueling 57 minutes without commerical breaks, and unedited. Lamb threw me a few questions...
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