Michael on Media
Michael Rosenblum has been writing about the media since 1988. His work and ideas have appeared in The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Ilkeston Life and many other publications.
He has been blogging regularly for the past 35 years on this subject. Having taught media studies at Columbia University, NYU and now the University of Oxford, he is considered an expert on this subject.
Holiday Gift Guide: Zoom H1 Handy Portable Digital Recorder
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How The Media Stole An Election
The election was incredibly close. The Democratic candidate had taken the popular vote, but as you know, elections are decided by the popular vote, and the electoral count was still in dispute. Florida was hanging by a chad. Whoever...
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Holiday Gift Guide: GoPro Accessory Starter Kit from Lifelimit
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Best Video Smartphone Apps for Cinematography
It should be no surprise that we love smartphones. Particularly, we love producing video with smartphones. They are lightweight and unassuming, and they can shooting full HD (some in 4K now), you can edit on them, and you can share directly...
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What Can You Do With Your Old Smartphone?
For years, I had a Hasselblad C/M 100. This was the old Hasselblad, the workhorse of the photography world, the pinnacle of photography. I saved for years to be able to buy it, and when I did, I thought...
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Holiday Gift Guide: Case Logic SLRC-206 SLR Camera Backpack
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Android Creator Launches New Phone The Essential Phone: Review
Andy Rubin, creator of Android, is trying to make his mark on the smartphone industry again with his newly designed Android phone: The Essential Phone. When Andy Rubin sold his company, Android, to Google in 2005 he became the...
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How To Shoot Perfect Video Every Time
About 30 years ago, I came up with what was then a crazy idea. Instead of having cameramen, soundmen, (they were all pretty much men in those days), producers and directors to create television journalism, wouldn’t it be better...
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Holiday Gift Guide: DJI Spark Drone
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The Information Desert
For pretty much the entire history of media, going back to antiquity, there have been gatekeepers. These are the people whose job it is to decide what the rest of us get to see. Newspapers and TV networks, for...
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