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Technology makes everything obsolete, sometimes within days or even hours of a purchase. This holds true with pretty much everything related to videojournalism. Except. The support gear. What is support gear? Well it includes tripods, lights, mikes (and cables). Like others, I tend to focus at times too much on the camera, the image, the […]
Read More →More than a third of people with tablets and smartphones use them to get the news, according to a new study from the Project for Excellence in Journalism. What’s particularly heartening is the demographic breakdown of that mobile audience. It appears to be somewhat of an equal opportunity platform. Though the PEJ study notes gaps between men and women and the more highly educated vs. the less so, it’s striking that news consumption never falls below 30% for any demo other than those 65+ on their smartphones. In mobile, TV journalists still have an opportunity to find audience that isn’t consuming their nightly newscasts. For example, the study finds that men and younger people — some of the toughest demos to get in TV news — are frequent viewers of video via mobile. Of course, getting demos and getting dollars are sometimes two different things, but PEJ offers some thoughts on mobile revenue opportunities as well.
Read More →Some more vintage photographer credentials in my collection. This example was issued by the US Navy to Max Markmann. It was one of many that would have been in his wallet the day Markmann bluffed his way into the Empire State Building after a Army bomber crashed into it.
Read More →I headed out to Bristol, TN to shoot a segment on Speed’s Race Hub called, “Krash Kab.” The segment is a play off of Cash Cab but the trivia questions are NASCAR related. The best part is that Mr. Entertainment, AKA Jimmy Spencer is a co-host along with Danielle Trotta. We basically spent the […]
Read More →They sometimes tell us we’re going somewhere far away as a joke. If you’re in the middle of a slow news day, on some level you know anything is possible. It still comes as somewhat of a shock when you’re handed an assignment and a city like Lancaster…
Read More →They sometimes tell us we’re going somewhere far away as a joke. If you’re in the middle of a slow news day, on some level you know anything is possible. It still comes as somewhat of a shock when you’re handed an assignment and a city like Lancaster…
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