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From: Gardian.co.uk “An Iranian-American journalist, Roxana Saberi, was sentenced to eight years in prison yesterday by the Iranian authorities after being found guilty of spying for the United States. The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, has demanded that the former Miss North Dakota, who had been working in Iran as a freelance journalist, be [...]

It’s always good to hear about street-wise photographers developing tools to help make our job easier. Who better come up with the innovations, than the folks who use it. That’s why I was impressed with the information I received from Gregg Hamilton, a shooter based in Houston, TX. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Two veteran broadcast photographers [...]

Only a week away! One of my favorite events of the year – the b-roll.net BASH is becoming an NAB must-attend party. Check out the stories from 2008. Last year’s party was amazing with over 200 people attending, and we’re doing it again. Monday, April 20 from 6-8pm at the Harley Davidson Cafe on the [...]

The folks at Zacuto must be like Q‘s lab from 007. They come up with cool innovative products and put their own style and flair on it. They latest “spy” equipment is the DSLR Gunstock. Basically it allows you to take a motion picture capable still-camera (like the Canon EOS 5D Mark II) and shoot [...]

From: NPPA.org WASHINGTON, DC (April 8, 2009) – Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been detained in Iran’s Evin prison for three months and who was thought to be facing imminent release, has instead now been charged with spying. Tehran’s deputy prosecutor of the Iranian Revolutionary Court Hassan Haddad told the Iranian Students News Agency [...]

It was like going back to school and working on a term paper, but I recently finished an article that appears in the most recent issue of Broadcast Engineering. The March 2009 issue of the industry magazine just started shipping, and you can find my article, “What’s in your bag?” on page 26. It all [...]

A week and a half ago the shooting fraternity in Vancouver lost part of its soul with the passing of former CITY TV Cameraman, Grant Wyatt. I met Grant when I first arrived in Vancouver from the east coast. He was shooting for CKVU and I was at the new…