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Why PBS Still Does Not Get It

Posted on March 23rd, 2010 Written on michael's blog


  Thirteen is still an unlucky number… Full disclosure: My very first job in TV was with PBS at Channel 13. That would be WNET/13, the PBS station in New York. I was a production assistant on a public affairs show out of Newark, New Jersey. So I have a certain affection for WNET/13 and Public Television. And for many years I sent them checks during the begathons and got the umbrellas and the tote bags and the mugs.  Lots of umbrellas But no more. No more. Not another dime. Yester

Tags : PBS , WNET , 47 , 13 , Need , to , Know

Will Wonders Never Cease Dept.

Posted on March 3rd, 2010 Written on michael's blog
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Joe Peyronin, former President Fox News now at NYU Well, this just goes to show you that if you wait long enough, anything can happen. Like the case of Joe Peyronin. He used to be the President of Fox News, when the network was just getting started. He was, in fact, the first President of Fox News.  I knew him before that, when he was running CBS News' Washington Bureau. I was just starting VNI with 102 VJs around the world, mostly NPR Radio journalists now with video cameras. What a great opp

ABC Sees A Digital Future

Posted on March 2nd, 2010 Written on michael's blog
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Do you think they have enough cameras on that boat? In 1988 we introduced the concept of VJ Newsgathering in Norway at TV Bergen. In 1990 we did it with NY1 in New York for Time/Warner. In 1993 we did it in London with Channel 1 and in Switzerland with TeleZuri. 1994 brought us VNI, which became New York Times TV. By 1998 we were converting The Voice of America to having 185 VJs around the world, reporting for VOA-TV. In 2000 we started with The BBC and trained 750 journalists to work as VJs. T

Tags : ABC , News , Videojournalism , LA , Times

TV Network News Goes VJ

Posted on February 28th, 2010 Written on michael's blog
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ABC News President David Westin announced that ABC News would cut 300-400 jobs (that's 20% of the workforce) and the they would move toward the VJ model for newsgathering. While VJ is hardly news to us (we have been training VJs and building TV news operations around the model since 1988!) the idea that a network would embrace the model is clearly a bellwhether of where the industry is headed. This morning, The New York Times confirmed the move, not only by ABC, but by all networks, that it's V

The Adventurous Life of a VJ

Posted on February 18th, 2010 Written on michael's blog
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VideoJournalist Vaughn Smith just returned froms reporting on the frontlines of Afghanistan as a video journalist. Take a look at his video. You'll get a sense of what it is like to work as a VJ in a war zone. Smith is also the founder of The Frontline Club. Check it out as well.    

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