Samantha Brown is just your modern day travel renaissance woman. She does it all. Samantha Brown hosts quite a few shows on the Travel Channel: Great Hotels, Passport to Europe, Passport to Latin America,Girl Meets Hawaii, Great Vacation Homes, Great Cruises, Great Weekends, Passport to China and the latest, Samantha Brown’s Asia as well some […]
Archive for November 7, 2011
In 1937, an announcer for WLS Chicago — Herbert Morrison — was in Lakehurst, NJ to cover the arrival of the Hindenburg airship. It had just completed its first year of service and had successfully returned from Europe. American Airlines hired the Hindenburg to shuttle passengers from Lakehurst to Newark for connecting airplane flights. It was when they were trying […]
Tags: Hindenburg, Marissa Ashkenaz, radio, Sensationalism, technology
Sports writing is going through a transition. For the longest time, it was the team and the people who covered it with no allegiances, just off plain observation. Now, there are still team beat reporters, but now teams have brought in some of these writers to report for them. The reason: to control the message.
Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.