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.
An Epitaph for American Journalism
The Graduate School of Journalism today released its long-awaited report, The Reconstruction of American Journalism by Leonard Downie Jr., and Prof. Michael Schudson. You can read the whole thing here. It is, in a word, terrible. It is terrible because...
Read moreClose Down The Newsroom
Lisa reviews Nathasha’s piece without leaving home, and talks to her face-to-face. Among other things, we run three hyperlocal TV operations: one in DC, one on Long Island and one in New Jersey. Â Each one puts out original...
Read moreTV – It’s Now Officially Over
Big Brother UK – any time, any place Television as we knew it is now officially over. It’s only a matter of time. Channel 4, the UK commercial network has just signed a deal with Youtube to put up...
Read moreIs Nothing Sacred?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6HfLQOw_DE[/youtube] We just came back from running two Video Bootcamps, back-to-back in DC. One of the core lectures at the bootcamps is about rights and releases. We are fastidious about them. Personal appearance releases, location releases, music releases and...
Read moreGovernment Web Managers Takes the Course
This week we are running a video bootcamp for GSA.gov, the General Services Administration for the US Government. They pretty much keep the government running, and they believe that video literacy for government agencies is critical for the 21st...
Read moreAmerica on Display
No place like home Yesterday, being Columbus Day, we had a few hours of downtime, and being in Washington DC, we thought we would go over to the Corcoran, where they were having a photo exhibition on the impact...
Read moreNY Video School
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6938784[/vimeo] Two years in the making, New York Video School is entering its final beta phase!
Read moreMurdoch vs. Galileo
And that’s the way it is….. On August 25, 1609, four hundred years ago, Galileo Galilei demonstrated his telescope to Venetian lawmakers.  A few months later he would publish Siderius Nuncias, his support for the Copernican heliocentric theory –...
Read more1 Billion Videos Viewed in One Day
What’s on? We are rapidly becoming Video Nation, or rather, video world. A place in which all ideas (and everything else) are communicated in video. Yesterday, Youtube passed an astonishing statistic – 1 Billion videos viewed in one day....
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