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Teaching video techniques at Addis Ababa University

by David | May 14, 2012 | journalism, television, Video

My students wanted to make sure to capture the conversation around the roundtable discussion we had on the subject of press freedom, so they set up the bagttered (but still serviceable) cameras outside the journalism department offices, and brought in all the...

Satellite TV dishes are common on the rooftops of Addis Ababa

by David | May 14, 2012 | Digital Migration, television

I met with the CEO of the Fana Broadcasting network this past week. We talked about the phenomenal growth occurring here in Ethiopia, and what that is going to mean for the traditional media here. Right now, as in so many other developing countries, the media...

The Oscars on Social Media: International Audiences Yawn, US Bloggers Snark

by David | Feb 26, 2012 | new media, television

Live-Blogging the Oscars and Tracking the Tweet Clouds I was hoping that the real-time geo-Tweet maps would show something interesting in and around Los Angeles during the Oscars telecast. No such luck. Meanwhile, the rest of the world didn’t seem too interested...

CNN International segment on Murdoch, phone-hacking & tabloid tactics

by David | Aug 7, 2011 | New Marketing, newspaper crisis, Newspaper Deathwatch, Newspapers, television

The good folks at CNN asked me to appear on Backstory” to talk about the News of the World’s phone-hacking scandal. I tried to oblige them with some insights onto why this kind of scandal keeps happening, and why. You can see the results of the interview...

Print Schadenfreude: TV Up Next to the Chopping Block

by David | Sep 24, 2010 | advertising, New Marketing, Online Video, television

A collective snicker/groan radiated out through the interwebs today with the publication of this AdAge piece on how video is like the news business was in 1998, as legions of print journalists who have seen the number and budgets of the news outlets for which they...
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