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A Week to Remember
I’m very grateful for the lack of greater violence during the eviction by LAPD of the Occupy LA protestors last week. It was an amazing news assignment. Not one I would have chosen, but one that I’m glad to have been involved with. With a p…
Read More →A Week to Remember
I’m very grateful for the lack of greater violence during the eviction by LAPD of the Occupy LA protestors last week. It was an amazing news assignment. Not one I would have chosen, but one that I’m glad to have been involved with. With a p…
Read More →Ten Web writing tips in 10 minutes
Bob Kaplitz is a consultant for Audience Research & Development. In a recent post, he produced an excellent 10 minute presentation on effective Web writing. He describes a new “prime time” for online news use. For example, use of computers, mobile devices and tablets jump up after about 6 a.m. Computers rule for much of […]
LA Crew Works To Keep The Bourbon Off Bourbon Street for NFL Pre-Game Show!
It’s been a busy football season for Go To Team’s Skip Clark. He’s been traveling almost every weekend to a different NFL city to shoot scenics and football games for the Fox Sports NFL Pre-Game show. With his Sony F3 rigged to what’s really just a telescope tripod head, Skip’s been shooting panning time lapses […]
Read More →Voices that inspire me…
…to get back to blogging. Did a (fairly basic) lighting workshop yesterday for Voices of the Earth, a Bay area non-profit. They’re a bit out of the ordinary…a small group of passionate folks who have taught themselves an awful lot about video production and who want to move on to what they call “the next […]
An unfortunate coincidence
[ed note: a cross-post of a thread I originally posted over on b-roll.net] Another one of those bits of history. I’m posting this one early since many of you will probably be seeing quite a bit of this particular news story next Wednesday since it is the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. […]
Read More →1970s CBS Operating Standards
Since its “Ethics Friday” over in the TV News Storyteller’s group, here’s some ethics from the past. Among my files is a copy of the 1971 CBS Operating Standards for News and Public Affairs that I transcribed for everyone’s perusal. This particular memorandum was intended to restate the applicability of written CBS policies that dated […]
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