EmailMichael sits down with Leonard Lopate of Lopate at Large on WBAI for an interview about his career, video journalism, and why everyone should learn to produce professional quality video.
It has never been easier to produce video on your own. It used to be that if you wanted to produce professional video you had to spend a lot of money on equipment, but now you can just use the smartphone that's in your pocket to do it all. With the right skills, you can use your smartphone to launch a career in video or use video for your business.
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No News Today — or tomorrow for that matter.
March 26, 2024
For most of human history, people lived in a world without news. The concept simply did not exist. The idea of news is really a 19th-century phenomenon, driven first by newspapers, and then by electronic media which brought us radio, then TV and now the web. Now, it seems, we are headed back to a world without news. Not because the technology is not there, but rather because, increasingly, people are no longer interested in news, at least in the way it is packaged now.
What TV News Could Be
February 26, 2024
When television was invented in the 1930s, no one knew what TV news was supposed to look like. The medium had never existed before, and so, like Gutenberg half a millennium, prior, the first creators of TV news had to fall back on a medium with which they were familiar, and that was radio.
What Is News? What Should it Be?
February 20, 2024
Maybe scary stories drive ratings… or maybe they don’t.