Midway through our round the world trip with Secretary of Defense Gates, we made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan. Arriving under the cover of darkness we landed in Kabul Sunday evening. We had switched from the E4B to a C-17 for our descent into Kabul. I’ve corkscrewed into BIAP a [...]

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Jim Long blogging somewhere over the Pacific, en route Singapore
Friend and social media rock star Chris Abraham once told me that I blog in the “rarified air” from my perch as a network news cameraman. Today, I blog from the very thin air, 35000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, en route to Singapore with [...]

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Can’t we all just get along? As two of my favorite foils, Michael Rosenblum and Jeff Jarvis were storming the gates of traditional TV at the NAB conference in Vegas, many of the journalists who actually do the “boots on the ground” work of TV news were in Blacksburg, VA, covering the worst single [...]

Posted in Jamal Albarghouti, Jeff Jarvis, Michael Rosenblum, NAB, NAB07, NAB2007, PR, Stewart Pittman, TV news, Virginia Tech Shootings, cell phone video, citizen journalism, disruptive media, journalism, mainstream media, new media, old media, photjournalism, small tv, social media, technology, tradtional media, video enabled phones, video journalist 8 Comments »