At a relatively young age they knew they‘d left the curriculum behind them. It’s not that they were being schooled more, or that they were inordinately bright. It’s just that their curiosity took them into the next horizon in music, creativity and collaborations. The era of Gen Zs* out-digitalizing their…

By now you’re one of millions around the world hailing the success of Musa, a lovely likeable young man with an inviting smile and an attitude that serves as example to others. Long story short, and if you haven’t watched it and you want to be wowed, stop reading now…

The shoot is on, a coastal town in peril of losing itself to the sea as inch by inch, year by year, it gobbles up land. What’s the story, and how do you tell it? Elsewhere, a change in the music scene over the years with a move towards singing…

It’s a phrase that I hear frequently. Of course, yes ! “You’ve told our story, it’s time we told ours”. It’s for everyone tired of outfits seemingly framing, and being misleading about who you are. Last month I kept coming across it in meetings in Ghana. It’s been expressed in…

“Movies are dreams that you never forget” says Spielberg’s trailer for The Fabelmans (2022). It’s where childhood dreams realised through an 8mm camera (much like the one I’m holding) blossom. If “Movies are dreams that you never forget”, journalism is the reality that remains memorable. Or…

A former working colleague of mine who now runs one of the UK’s most successful production companies Raw TV said tthis. I would say that the distinctions between what is news, journalism, features and documentary, however you want to describe it are utter rubbish and the really interesting stuff happens…

Iwas interviewed by #BBC Journalist Michael Burgess about AI generated images in the piece circled called “AI: Can you tell that these ‘photographs’ are artificial?” It’s a relevant subject at present impacting professional photography and the veracity of images we consume. Then there’s the general concern heightened in the last…

It was one of the world’s most seminal stories when South Africa spun off its yoke of Apartheid (racism legalised). In two days it would be legally consigned to history. I’m in South Africa circa 1994 reporting. Or was I? It was once held that the camera never lies. So…

Many people, including those within the corporation, commented it would not be a good idea, but execs pressed ahead anyway. Today in the TV exec land of CNN, how much to be a fly on the wall? I’ve worked in TV for a considerable period, and I’ll paint a likely…