• How two keynote presentations now define my “career”

    Ten years ago, I officially ended my career path in television journalism when I started my own company with my wife, HRH Media. After ultimately resigning from two staff positions at NBC (as a producer) and CBC (as a reporter), I saw a 6-month contractual offer from NBC to cover the war in Iraq as…

  • Terms of Engagement: How we connected to Bezos, Schultz, Martinez et. al.

    [UPDATED OCT 21 2013] Last year I promised myself that I would find a way to meet and interview Jeff Bezos. Although I have a number of students, alumni and friends who work at the company he founded, the Amazon CEO is famously sparing in his on-camera appearances. He recently only appeared on TV to…

  • Back to the future in Beijing: a very pricey cup of tea and a Peking duck

    I was shocked at the price of a cup of the “Super Dahongpao” tea: 118 yuan (about $20). Granted, the markup is assured here in the lobby of the shiny new Crowne Plaza Beijing. But I had to order it, especially after reading in this morning’s China Daily how this very rare tea is changing…

  • Onward! Digital media usage trumps TV so what’s the content strategy for my Howard Schultz interview?

    Wow. Quoting a new eMarketer report, AdAge declares the following: American adults this year will for the first time spend more time each day using digital media than watching TV Either way, we’re still couch potatoes — though it’s less obvious where we’re planting those potatoes thanks to our digital devices. Because TV viewership is…