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Finally. I updated my reel.
Posted in BBC, conferences, freelance work, jobs, media, media tips, media training, mediabistro, reporting work, Reuters, video ideas, webcasts
Tagged anchor, broadcast, demo, host, media training, moderator, on-air, on-camera, presenter, reel, reporter, tv, webcast
Just 1 Minute of News
The website OneMinuteNews.com launched last week. It offers, obviously, a one minute video wrap up of news (mostly AP footage, as far as I can tell) and claims: “You might notice news is different here. We give it to you straight up.”
They don’t seem to have quite got their footing yet but the idea of a minute of video news has been tested. Successes, for example, include the BBC’s One-Minute of World News and its “60 Seconds” on BBC3.
Obviously, as an ex-BBC reporter/producer I’m partial to my roots but here’s the thing: to get people to believe everything they see in 1 minute, I think you need to have established cred. I’m curious to see if OneMinuteNews will be able to establish itself as anything than just another news aggregator that recuts wire service video. Am I soooo Generation X? Here’s Fast Company’s take on the new venture. Short and interesting read if you are a news nerd.
Posted in BBC, future of news, media, Uncategorized, video ideas, webcasts
Tagged BBC, fast company, media, news, on-camera, oneminutenews, online content, video, websites
Questioning the Open Road
Looking out at the future of publishing from the podium of the eBook Summit.
Happy 2010- may it be busy 
and lucrative for all of us. So let’s talk new ventures…
I hosted mediabistro’s eBook Summit a few weeks ago and was intrigued by the presentation made by Open Road, a supposedly new kind of publishing company.
Founded by former HarperCollins head honcho Jane Friedman and Oscar-winning film producer Jeffrey Sharp, Open Road claims to be a new kind of publishing company that will brand authors and multimedia market them. That means, Friedman and Sharp said, a lot of video content too, not just the written word.
Their purpose, they say, is to change the relationship of the author & consumer. For example, they are aggregating all the material out there about William Styron (ie. working with Duke to digitize his papers, posting old audio clips, creating “premium” content like a documentary with the help of his daughters, etc.), all to bring Styron’s work to a new audience.
But can they seriously make money? How many eyeballs can a well-crafted (and expensive) doc that is posted online really attract? There’s already been a fair amount of controversy over the company, before it even really gets content out there. Read this NYT op-ed and this article about the possible legal nastiness in publishing.
P.S. at eBook I also interviewed my old friend, the BBC’s Katty Kay (see the picture above)…she mentioned a crazy stat: her husband’s book was launched in the UK on Oct. 1- one of 800(!) titles that were released that same day. Yikes. Between the pay, the market, and the competition, getting a book out just doesn’t hold the same cache for journalists that it used to.
Posted in BBC, books, conferences, media, mediabistro, new york times, video ideas
Tagged conferences, media, mediabistro, Open Road, publishing, video
Hot Women in Media
Katty
Alex
I haven’t told my friend Katty Kay that she looks like Alex from The Desperate Housewives (seriously, don’t they look alike?). I spied Alex at the sandbox in Cobble Hill a few weeks back. And yes, we were with our kids.
Katty’s book Womenomics is now #5 on Amazon’s Women & Business list. She wrote it with ABC correspondent Claire Shipman. I was Katty’s producer in the nineties when she first started reporting from the US for the BBC in Washington.
Her book is about getting the career you’ve always wanted without sacrificing your life. It applies mostly to corporate lasses…and I have to say, the freelance/consultant model is working better for a lot of us. I went and joined Katty backstage when she appeared on Colbert in June (watch it here, he was such a pushover for a strawberry blonde Brit!)…and went to Diane von Furstenberg’s studio that night for the book party. Very entertaining to watch the mainstream media machine move into place to support its own. Almost everyone I spoke to was looking over my shoulder to see if there was someone better else to talk to…not that I took it personally!
Speaking of women in mainstream media, Forbes recently posted its Most Influential Women in Media list. Only surprise on there was Dooce.
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Tagged ABC, BBC, Claire Shipman, Desperate Housewives, dooce, Katty Kay, women in media, Womenomics
