Thursday, March 18, 2010

Walter Cronkite “and that’s the way it was”

July 18, 2009 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under People

If someone were to to ask me “who was the man who defined the job tv news anchorman?” it would be Walter Cronkite..bar none. While we never had never met we had a connection…we were both fascinated by the space program…so it’s ironic that Cronkite passed away exactly 40 years after the flight of Apollo [...]

Dan Dubno: Playing “Network Chicken” at CBS News

February 14, 2009 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under People

Dan Dubno (a/k/a Digital Dan) is a good buddy and one of the smartest people I know. He is a pioneer in the use of powerful tools for news coverage. Until recently he was producer and technologist for CBS News in New York, where he coordinated Special Events Unit coverage.

He forwarded this sad, but fascinating [...]