Everybody’s Doing It
The $14 Million VJ There seems to be little question now that the “Revolution” is getting past its Revolutionary phase. Katie Couric, anchor for The CBS Evening News was photographed in the CBS newsroom using a small, hand held...
Read moreStewart and Me
Stewart Pittman, one of the most literate and articulate lensmen in the business has a daily blog that I like a lot. You can link it on the right. Today, he posts on his visit to the News Museum,...
Read moreThe Next Frontier
This was once the cutting edge ... A few years ago, a friend of mine was hired to make an ad for M&Ms. The budget was a mind-shattering $3million for a 30-second spot. It got me to thinking.
Read moreTravel Channel Goes to School
This week, we are down at the Travel Channel in Chevy Chase running a Travel Channel Academy, except we are running it for The Travel Channel. Travel Channel President and CEO Pat Younge has decreed that every employee of...
Read moreWill It Fly?
Could we charge extra for baggage? I am sitting in the conference room of a giant publishing company that we have been working with for some time. They understand the concept of video on the web, and of webcasting...
Read moreYour Next Employer
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-vI6dvHhlY&hl=en&fs=1] This lovely film – shot, edited, written and produced by one of our favorite and most talented VJs Francisco Aliwalas (remember Bikin Car Wash for the NY Post?), was commissioned by neither a tv network nor a newspaper....
Read morePulitzer & Youtube offer $10,000 Prize for Citizen Journalism
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQn8pcZ64MI&hl=en&fs=1] For the fifth year, we are offering our €10,000 prize for the best VJ piece through our DNA2009 conference (Brussels, March 4-5). Now Youtube (which has a LOT more money than we do!!!) in partnership with Pulitzer is...
Read moreImages from TCA NY
Travel Channel President Pat Younge addresses the group Mrs Rosenblum explains how to Learn Shoot and Earn
Read moreTravel Channel Academy New York
Left the Leica home so I shot it with the mac A mere 8 hours after landing in NY, we started a new Travel Channel Academy class in New York. Yesterday, Pat Younge, President and GM for The Travel...
Read moreVermont in the News
Marselis Parsons, News Director and Anchor for WCAX TV. Can we talk? Labor Day in Vermont is tough. Rather than fly back to NY, we spent the day at the Champlaign State Fair, just outside of Burlington, Besides the...
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