The Business Journal of Film, TV Broadcasting, Broadband, Production, Distribution
June/July 2010
Volume 30 No. 5
Water Cooler
Check out the Water Cooler, the coolest weekly news report in the business. Each week, VideoAge’s intrepid reporters will tackle a topic of interest to the industry. We want to compete with VideoAge’s challenging “My 2¢” editorials, so expect “frank and direct” reporting. Our goal isn’t to report first, but to report best. The Water Cooler doesn’t just generate questions, it gives answers. click here»
Water Cooler
Check out the Water Cooler, the coolest weekly news report in the business.
Cover Stories
The Tax Incentives That Almost Relocated Hollywood
Los Angeles has long been the production capital of the U.S. The very word “Hollywood” evokes images of movie stars, premieres and mansions in the hills. But what if production companies started fleeing the City of Angels in favor of Anytown, U.S.A? more»
Broadband Revolution – Only With Regulation
On March 21, 2010, five days after U.S. regulatory agency, the FCC, announced the development of a National Broadband Plan, The New York Times came out with two editorials about the need to regulate broadband in the U.S. more»
The Drama of RFF Is Like Fiction
What Americans call “drama,” Italians and Europeans in general refer to as “fiction.” And in the case of the fourth annual Roma Fiction Fest (RFF), one cannot say whether what will unfold is clearly a drama or a work of fiction. more»
My Two Cents
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian of London, observed that the old world in which journalists were trusted to filter and prioritize the news is now in tension with “a world in which many readers want to have the ability to make their own judgments. more»
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