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Does this answer your question?

The “VJ” question ultimately comes down to one of quality.

Recently at RTNDA, news directors raised this question. Gary Brown, ND from KTGV aired this piece. That was pretty much the end of the discussion.

This piece was shot, written, reported, edited, scripted and produced by Kyle Majors, Digital Correspondent (as they call VJs in San Diego) for KGTV. He was a former cameraman who made the leap to reporter. This was done on a one-day turn. (more…)

WKRN GM Mike Sechrist at Bloggers Convention

Almost a year ago, Mike Sechrist invited me to come down to Nashville for a Bloggers Convention. I had been to plenty of Current.tv ‘meet ups’, but this was different. These were people who were creating a whole new grammar for journalism. (more…)

That works out to…. $144,000.00 per hour… Hooray!!!

The Guardian, (and Jeff Jarvis) are reporting today that Mark Thompson, the Director General of the BBC told a committee of Parliament that he foresaw the end of ‘anchors’ in the near future.

This is no bad thing.

The whole concept of ‘anchor’ is a complete waste of time and money. (more…)

….come on down!!!

Last week we completed casting for 5Takes, season four.

The photo above is from the New York auditions.

Lots of people turned out… and why not?

This time we are sending the group to South America. (more…)

Long before Al Gore… the Internet was actually invented here….

In 760 BC, the Great Shah of Iran had two passions: warfare and games.

Thus it was that his Vizir invented something for him that combined both. He called it ‘chess’. (more…)

time for a change…….

In 1988, I was invited to a party at Barry Rebo’s loft on 25th Street in NY.

Rebo was one of the most aggressive early adapters in the production business. He had brought the first u-matic 3/4 inch decks from Japan, replacing film with videotape. Now, far ahead of everyone else, he was getting into HI DEF. (more…)

Nothing to fear…..

On the morning after the Virginia Tech shootings, the morning news anchors all rushed down to Blacksburg to do their live remotes. Matt Lauer, from the Today show, turned to the camera and announced that yesterday had been ‘a day that will live in infamy’.

Who writes this stuff?

And why are they still working?

Broadcast journalism (with a very few exceptions), has always had terrible writing.

Turgid, banal, pointless, constipated.

Those are all good adjectives.

Where did this come from, the TV news voice? (more…)

thanks Jeff Jarvis!

Can you have them shake hands instead?

Since its inception, making television has been like reading tea leaves. You knew there was an audience out there, but you didn’t really know what they wanted. So you guessed, or dealt with the psuedo science of ‘ratings’.

As a result, making television programs can be a long, arduous, and ultimately frustrating process. (more…)

دجل

On Sunday, we did the opening session at RTNDA in Las Vegas.

The RTNDA made a conscious decision to embrace the ‘New Journalism” and everyone on stage, in one way or another was a blogger.. or vlogger.

The ‘Old Power Establishment’ does not like this one iota. (more…)