Tag: NBC
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It’s a constant struggle — that balance between bragging/TMI (Too Much Information) and the need to promote our abilities and presence in this chaotic communications ecosystem. We’ve discussed this on several occasions in our “Narrative & Networks in Digital Media” class, driven especially by our reference to Networked: The New Social Operating System. That given…
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NBC’s Olympics coverage has been a decades-long exercise in frustration for me. I’ve never enjoyed their saccharine production values, and have always been annoyed by their tape delays. I know they’re trying much harder this year to make coverage available live online, but once again, NOT the opening ceremonies (to the overwhelming exasperation of the…
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Over the years, some of my students have asked me to recount stories from my “glory days” when I traveled the world on behalf of a TV news network. I always resisted, because I never liked it when the old-timers would do that at the bar after a hard day of reporting — as if…
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Call it my inability to abandon my breaking news background as a former TV journalist. But I’m enamored with the notion of a “news peg” to galvanize attention around a particular issue. Our MCDM program did it with Wikileaks in December with “Open Secrets” and the news gods have smiled upon us again, ahead of…
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