Columnist: Ruth L. Ratny

Tom Burrell, who co-founded founded Burrell Advertising in 1971 and developed “positive realism” as a way of depicting African Americans using consumer products in an authen...

Leo Burnett is usually always the biggest winner of double digit awards for TV commercial excellence in the international competitions it enters throughout the year and the 48th...

Brian Bullock got a double charge out of a package of ESPN spots currently airing that his fairly new re:think studios helped create and produced.  For one, the assignment ...

Mo Wagdy likes to think of Mofest7, April 20-22, as “a film and arts festival wrapped into a wrap party, since it’s about the crew people you’ve worked with all year round...

Events uptempo during the second half of April (accelerated no doubt by Mars and Mercury, planets of creativity and communications going direct) also gives us a choice of m...

Phil Contursi of Product Productions says he will be spending all four days at NAB next week in the AAdynTech booth, where he anticipates being busy with visitors wanting to kno...

An April 24 auction of millions of dollars worth of AV equipment, furnishings and vehicles will mark the sad finale of Roscor Corp., for more than three decades one of the Midwe...

Composer/producer John Ovnik has gone from solo to duo for the first time since he started Deaf Dog Music 18 years ago, by forming a creative partnership with his long-time frie...

Immigration – anticipation, fear and pain of leaving one’s homeland for life a new country -- is the central theme of the three intertwined stories in the indie dramedy, Pro...

After 80 years of on-and-off efforts to merge the two national talent unions, history was made March 30 when the members of national SAG and AFTRA voted in amazingly high number...

When ad agencies acquire new companies, these new divisions  provide related services that are directly related to and feed into the advertising business, such as research,...

With the hiring of six former key Roscor System Integration  experts, Diversified Systems of New Jersey, with branches throughout the country, has made its first foray into...

For the second time within the span of a week, a privately-held local visual media has been acquired by a larger entity.  Trio Video’s purchase by Pittsburgh-based NEP wa...

After 29 years as a privately-held provider of mobile HD production facilities, Trio Video has been acquired by Pittsburg-based NEP, the world’s largest truck vendor operating...

With the official announcement that production executive John Noble will head design/live action company Eyeball here, the company has the distinction of being the only New York...

For the first time in its 48 year history, the Hugo Awards has turned its Klieg lights on its own backyard to honor a Chicago production company with the prestigious Hugo Excell...

Eager to learn about Canon’s new cinema cameras, more than 100 professional motion and still shooters attended ProGear’s informative presentation of the highly touted new Ca...