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The Video Solution For Newspapers

Posted on February 7th, 2012 Written on michael's blog


  The sweet solution to the Newspapers' problem... Yesterday, we reported that newspapers are now making a big move into the world of video. Good for them. Not that they haven't been there before. But there is potential.. if.... If they have the courage to go 'all the way' and seize the future instead of recreating a past that is already dying. The future is in non-linear, on demand and online TV. I don't even know if we can call it TV anymore, but let's just for convenience sake.   Soon,

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Suddenly.... Newspapers Are Going Into Video In A Big Way

Posted on February 6th, 2012 Written on michael's blog


  In 1994, Punch Sulzberger, the owner and publisher of The New York Times bought my company, Video News International. It became New York Times TV, and for two years I served as President of NY Times TV. The idea I had sold Punch on was that you could take the the journalistic power of the newspaper and turn it into video at very little cost. Now, nearly 20 years later, it seems to be coming to fruition. The web has taken down the barriers to entry for video and teleivision. Now, anyone can

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Why You Already Know How To Make Great Video

Posted on February 5th, 2012 Written on michael's blog
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  In his best-selling book, OUTLIERS, Malcolm Gladwell laid out what he called this "10,000 Hour Rule" According to Gladwell, success in any field is a function of spending 10,000 hours practicing to get it right. Gladwell makes a pretty good case for this, and I am sure he is correct. Wrote Time Magazine of this: "The most obvious candidate for memification in Outliers is a little gem Gladwell calls the 10,000-Hour Rule. Studies suggest that the key to success in any field has nothing to d

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And Now... HasselbladTV

Posted on February 2nd, 2012 Written on michael's blog
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  You can stop clicking on the arrow. This is only a frame grab. They don't allow embeds. Hasselblad TV Last year, Lisa bought me a digital Hasselblad for my birthday. These are the Rolls Royces of stills cameras. And they cost nearly as much. Sometimes, when I am out shooting with the Hasselblad, people will ask me 'does that thing do video'. It is clearly the size of a video camera. But it doesn't. It does, however, make stunning stills. So I was a bit astonished to recieve an email t

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An NYVS Success Story

Posted on February 1st, 2012 Written on michael's blog
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  TOM HOLMES is an NYVS member. He also publishes a magazine called Encore. It's like Playbill, but better, says Tom. Like all magazine publishers, Tom understood that he has to get into video for his website and his business so he joined NYVS. Last November, he wrote this to me: My short term goal is to turn my site into more video content, if not all, vs. print. One of the stories we have come up with is a video jazz series. Then he started shooting and cutting video pieces. Over time,

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