Charlie White is an Emmy award winning producer, director, author and consultant who has worked in television and radio broadcasting since 1974. His experience includes directing Nightly Business Report, Star Hustler, Ecole de Cuisine, Dollar Signs and TECHNO@bytes for national PBS television audiences.

White has been a widely-known computer journalist, columnist and contributing editor for a variety of national magazines and Web sites since 1994. No stranger to controversy, he's best known for his opinion pieces with a regularly acidic yet lighthearted point of view. He's written numerous feature articles, cover stories and reviews for DV, DCC, Video Systems, Digital Studio and Digital Magic, along with hundreds of published articles in other magazines and trade publications. Writing more than 250,000 words each year, he has written feature articles published in Post Magazine, Broadcast Engineering, TV Technology, Desktop Publishers Journal, Self-Employed Professional, PC Graphics and Video, Full Motion, LiveDV, and Computer Graphics World. He is also a technical editor and reviewer for New Riders Publishing, Focal Press and Prentice Hall.

In addition to print journalism, now he's reveling in the joy that is Web publishing. He survived the bursting of the "Internet Bubble" of the early part of this century, and proudly serves as Executive Producer of a group of Web sites including Digital Video Editing and six others: DTV Professional, Broadcast Newsroom, HDTV Buyer, FilmImaging, PresentationMaster, and DV Format. These sites are a major part of a company White and seven colleagues founded in 1999 called Digital Media Online, Inc., a Newport Beach, California-based Web publisher that does business as Digital Media Net and has grown beyond its founders' wildest dreams, now attracting over 1 million unique visitors each month.

Drawing from his long-time experience in broadcasting, he is currently a consultant and analyst for TrendWatch Inc., a broadcast and graphics market research firm. He's also directing a television talk show, Focus on Diversity, that appears each week on the CBS affiliate in Milwaukee.

In his 31-year career in broadcasting, White was Producer/Director of the hit national PBS cooking series entitled Jill Prescott's Ecole de Cuisine. In the summer of 1995, he created the PBS technology series TECHNO@bytes. He was also Creative Consultant for PBS's Tracks Ahead, and directed Dollar Signs, a PBS series specializing in mutual funds. White's specialty is promotional spot creation, for which he won a Chicago/Midwest Emmy Award in 1992.

While beginning his television career, instead of starving White was a radio announcer for classical and jazz stations in Miami and North Carolina. He was also a professional saxophonist, playing with small groups and big bands. The 12-year musical adventure included a seven-year gig with "Los Cumbiamberos," a Latino orchestra that recorded five albums, one of which was for CBS Records in 1983.

White is currently living an unusually happy life in a small village on the windswept prairie of the central US with his actress/model wife Denise and above-average 12-year-old daughter, Helen. Nestled between the whispering evergreens and amber waves of grain -- but not too far from a major airport and fast Internet access -- is Digital Media Net's Midwest Test Facility, where White delights in the evaluation and testing of the latest digital video editing, consumer electronics, broadcasting and presentation products.

Contact Charlie at charlie@coolnessroundup.com

Stephen Schleicher

Stephen Schleicher has crossed the country several times over the last couple of years going from Kansas to Atlanta , Georgia , and Southern California .  In his time traveling, he has worked as an editor, graphic designer, videographer, director, and producer on a variety of video productions ranging from small internal pieces, to large multimedia
corporate events.

Currently, Stephen shares his knowledge with students at Fort Hays State University who are studying media and web development in the Information Networking and Telecommunications department.

When he is not shaping the minds of university students, Stephen continues to work on video and independent projects for State and local agencies and organizations as well as his own ongoing works.

Stephen is also a regular contributor to Digital Producer, Creative Mac, Digital Webcast, Digital Animators, and the DV Format websites, part of the Digital Media Online network of communities (www.digitalmedianet.com), where he writes about the latest technologies, and gives tips and tricks on everything from Adobe After Effects, to Apple's Final Cut Pro, LightWave 3D, to shooting and lighting video.

Stephen has a Masters Degree in Communication from Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas .  As a forward thinker, he wrote his Thesis on how Information Islands and e-commerce would play a major role in keeping smaller communities alive.  This of course was when 28.8 dialup was king and people hadn't even invented the word e-commerce.

Stephen spends what little free time he has biking, reading, traveling around the country, and contemplating the future of digital video and its impact on our culture.

Contact Stephen at stephen@coolnessroundup.com

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