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.

Where The Jobs Are… and aren’t

Read all about it A curious juxtaposition of two news stories today: NPR Reports that even though the stock market is up 50% unemployment is also 10.2% USA Today reports that small businesses will have to use video in...

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Follow The Money

Listen to Deep Throat… Yesterday I got an email from Thomas Loudon, one of the co-founders of vjmovement.com. VJmovement.com is a new website, just launched yesterday, which presents the work of more than 100 VJs around the world. They...

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Now We Are All Citizen Journalists

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbVeN13wGFc[/youtube] One way of looking at it…. After Ft. Hood, Paul Carr has written a rather interesting piece for Tech Crunch noting that ‘Citizen Journalists can’t handle the truth’. For all the sound and fury, citizen journalism once again...

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Masters Of The Information Universe!

Arise! You ink stained wretches!! We live in the ‘Information Era”. That, at least, is what everyone says. And it is true. What we do almost all day long is process information, of one kind or another. In another...

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And Yet It Moves….

Google… ca. 1609 The Nobel Museum in Stockholm is exhibiting Galileo’s telescope. In 1609 Galileo turned his new instrument to the skies and changed the world forever.   What he saw – mountains and valleys on the moon, moons...

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This Is Why It’s All Over….

All The News That’s Fit To Print… Boston Version… I was a child of television. When I came home from school every day, I positioned myself in front of the TV for endless hours of viewing. One of my...

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How To Make Millions in Journalism

Wake up!!! OK. So yesterday I had my meeting with Nick Lemann, the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. I pitched him my concept. Here it is: 1.  I want to run a course at...

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I Need Your Support!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyLkJz3oWfA[/youtube] The deadline for the Knight News Challenge Grant has been extended. Just when I thought we might be coming to the close, they have extended the challenge until December 15.   They have also invited people to submit...

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Columbia University Graduate School of The Internet

www.thefuture.com I have a meeting with Nicholas Lemann this afternoon. He is the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. I, myself, am a graduate of the J-school at Columbia, class of ’83. I also taught...

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Church & State

Go make money…. My friend and Columbia classmate Barbara Selvin is a professor of journalism at Stony Brook on Long Island. Every year, she invites me to come and talk to the class.  I am going on Friday. Yesterday,...

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