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.

Some Really Impressive Editing

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo[/youtube] Lasse Gjertsen is a 25-year old Norwegian videographer who created this incredibly creative video. He doesn’t play either piano or drums. It’s all done in the edits. Fantastic work. Gjertsen has been approached by several commercial makers, but...

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Here Comes Everybody – Part 2

Today is Day 2 of the Travel Channel Academy in DC. We’re at Travel Channel HQ, and Travel Channel’s CEO Jonathan Sichel addressed the group to explain how important and central the VJ ‘army’ is the Travel Channel’s future...

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Look Out! Here Comes Everybody….*

Which way to iReport? Last night I was a guest on Brian Lehrer’s TV show. OK, I only had 20 minutes of the hour. (I had to share it with some guy who had done four tours of duty...

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PBS Jumps Headlong Into 1982

And now.. the late news…. Facebook is a great tool for finding old friends with whom you have lost touch. Recently, I friended Marty Goldensohn. Marty is, among many other things, Brian Lehrer’s producer. (Brian Lehrer for those outside...

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Listening To The Technology

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7901103[/vimeo] Andy Grove, the former Chairman and CEO of Intel said “listen to the technology, it will tell you what to do’. If we are smart we will listen to where the technology is headed. It has been going...

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Has Journalism Been Voted Off The Island?

Which one writes for The Chicago Tribune? In early December the Federal Trade Commission is going to hold a series of hearings on the collapse of the journalism business. It is good that the federal government is paying attention...

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A Whole New World for Video

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6861129[/vimeo] The really interesting stuff is comes about half-way into this video Professional photographer Alexx Henry does some great work. But he is catching the leading wave of a new technology that promises to be a real game-changer in...

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The Weird Power of Video

Forgive me, for I have sinned…. I have been running video training bootcamps in one form or another for more than 20 years now. Part of the bootcamp experience is that we give people cameras and send them out...

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Screenworld

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7824431[/vimeo] Here’s a video introduction to screenworld. (Practice what you preach, no?) You can find lots more of these at NYVS.com lots more.

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Local News is Dead

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7768268[/vimeo] Last week at CUNY, I sat with Localnewser.com’s Mark Joyella. He took out his camera and did a small video interview on the spot.  He posted it on his blog and on Vimeo. In the past few days...

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