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Nashville Scene
Michael Rosenblum wants to send video news to your cell phone and more. |
Today, TV consultant
Terry Heaton noted that telco giant Verizon is
getting into the news business. He wrote:
"Michael Rosenblum, the father of the Video Journalist (VJ) movement, is launching a futuristic video news project with Verizon that ought to give the 'trusted brand' crowd a shudder or three. He's assembling news gathering units (what he terms 'nodes') in various cities that will make their content available via cellphone, Web and cable, and he's knee-deep in recruiting for the first node in Washington, D.C. The second node will be here in Dallas."
I couldn't find any mention of this on the Verizon site, but Rosenblum has been advertising on Craiglist for an executive producer in D.C.
The Center for Citizen Media notes why this development is potentially both great and scary for news organizations:
"Great, because [this venture will] have resources beyond most other competitors, and could do some excellent work. ...Why scary? Because the phone and cable companies are demanding the right to determine what content travels on their systems, at what speed and in what order."
Absolutely! If your news organization hasn't yet started looking into and caring about net neutrality, it's high time to wake up and smell the 21st century.
...By the way, this isn't Rosenblum's first foray into the news business. On Aug. 18, 2005, Nashville Scene covered a project he was involved in to convert local TV news at Nashville station WKRN-Channel 2 to a VJ-style format. (Does anyone know how that went? Please comment below.)
KRN in Nashville has been a great success, as has...
