FUTURE STORYTELLING

So I'm watching CNN and this lavish affair - the first collaboration between CNN International and CNN local to celebrate India's s...

I have been lazy. In the 90s I was an avid reader of all things techy from magazines such as New Media Age, Production Solutions, Digit, Cre...

In my 15 years as a video journalist, I have fought many battles, witnessed many things. I have worked in Apartheid South Africa; my doc was...

This is a precipe of my talk to an influential design group, which is preparing its submisssion to the minister wo overseas this sector THE ...

Times reports the big one. If you're an independent, be afraid be very afraid. The BBC may have been slow in catching up with the new me...

4.26 a.m. We used to mock fellow collegues doing this at boarding school: TDB - till day break. And woe betide you got lugged with an edit o...

An 8 year old weighing 14 stones risks being taking into care. A 15-year-old boy is shot dead in his home. News items seperated by a few da...

Where do we get ideas from? How do we comprehend news? And what role can design play in creating a fresh paradigm in our evolving news envir...

Complexity in design is a relatively new area for me, but one which I could come to relish. Today I was invited to a gathering of innovative...

Responding to a post from Adrian Monck's blog who writes Monck’s Maxims® of video news online: "No newscasters. News anchoring is a...

Viewmagazine.tv 2007 now Viewmagazine.tv 2006- 2007 Six weeks into the Masters programme for Online Journalism and the students have impress...

UK newspaper journalists put themselves through an 8 days boot camp programme to learn video journalism, while one of the largest polic...

1. Intervention - accept that the age of intervention to help this generation is far below 15 years - perhaps as young as 8-10 when young bo...

THE NEW NEWS MAKERS Mark Jones, a veteran 20 year news man now working for KRON4 Bay Area News Station, San Francisco summed it up: tr...

Global something - the view from my house resplendent in white cold satin, however tells me something is odd. Could it be that within a coup...

Aw shucks.. i'm tired!

Big Brother in the news again, but this time one of its execs, Endemol’s (UK) MD of Digital Media, Peter Cowley lamenting how woefully the ...

I'm no cultural snob, nor is my lack of watching the most suucessful show on earth got anything to do with high brow-low brow, but that...

Been enjoying looking at a range of work from extraordinary video journalists and multimedia gurus. Some I'm aware of Naka Nathaniel, bl...

"We've got to get back to basics. We've got to get back to basics. We've got to get back to basics". A refrain I'm...