The 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 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 moreA Sense of Dedication
At work by the pool Ken Krushel knows what television network news is all about. He was senior vice president of Strategic Planning and Business Development at NBC where he oversaw new media development, including digital broadcast, digital cable...
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 moreA VJ Story
[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 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 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 moreabc news adds 2 more vjs
Our loyal correspondent from Fox News makes me aware of ABC news’ decision to add two more VJ bureaus to its original 7. They don’t call them VJs, they call then Digital Correspondents – just like at KGTV in...
Read moreVJ Report from Afghanistan
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPaTgRPr4O4] One of our instructors here at The Travel Channel Academy is Bill Gentile. I first met Bill in 1993, when we were training out very first group of VJs. Bill was a photojournalist for Newsweek, who had cut...
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