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Posted via email from beFrank’s posterous

The words below dates from 1939 via Norman Alley. “Big problem of the newsreeler today is not engaging in battles of wits with his competitors, or pulling out of hair raising scrapes. It’s the dull and difficult task of injecting something new in approach—of avoiding the trite—in the regular assignments that come his way. Newsreelers […]

“I doubt I’ll ever buy a live truck again,” says Jeff Houston, news director for WTVA in Tupelo, Miss. Houston’s station just recently aired its first live shot using a TVUPack. The system uses multiple wireless modems to put out live or video feeds of higher quality than what you can do with a typical […]

Move over, Jimmy Olsen, you are no longer the only photojournalist to ever grace the pages of a Golden Age comic book. Newsreel and later CBS News photographer Norman Alley was the subject of a comic back in 1941. Just one small example of the sometimes excessive public fawning the mostly-forgotten photog who once held […]

I sort of have a bit of an announcement.
Further details will be released closer to mid-May or so depending on if all goes well.
Stay tuned.