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.

Democracy Wall

real all about it… In 1978, one of the seminal events leading up to the revolt at Tienanmen Square in Beijing was the construction of a ‘Democracy Wall’. This was a place where daily notices of news and opinion...

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Are You Offended?

offensive? There was a curious juxtaposition of news stories yesterday. First, Danish newspaper cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, speaking yesterday in a private home in  Manhattan, told a group of  listeners  that Muslims need to develop a sense of humor and an...

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Too Little…. Too Late…..

hmmm…..well what about helium? Our old friend up in Albany, Mike Sechrist sent us a link to a great speech by John Temple, former editor and President of the now defunct Rocky Mountain News. The Rocky Mountain News, which...

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The Power of a Tweet

A whole new way of thinking about the media Recently over at b-roll.net, one of my favorite sites, there was a discussion about whether Twitter was worth anything or just a flash in the internet pan. I put in...

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My Niece Takes 1st Place in British Nationals

Amy Foster 13 years old takes 1st Place in the British Nationals. I grew up in New York. I don’t know a thing about horses, except that they are big and somewhat intimidating. However, my 13-year old niece Amy...

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How Alexander of Villedieu Changed the World..and what does this have to do with video?

Wait…here comes the good part… Alexander of Villedieu lived in France in the Middle Ages and wrote a book called Doctrinale, which was not only a Medieval best-seller, but also changed not only his world, but ours. Confused? You...

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How To Save Photojournalism

This just in! Jesus and his pals had dinner last night….. full story at 11. Last week, Dirck Halstead ran a very provocative piece in his Digital Journalist asking How To Save Photo Journalism. The answers were more depressing...

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Travel Channel Academy – NY

This weekend we’re down at the City University of NY Graduate School of Journalism where we are running another 4-day Travel Channel Academy. Lisa preps the students on the ins and outs of legal releases, (their favorite lecture), as...

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TCA Goes To Sea

Anchors aweigh (away?) Yesterday we signed a deal with Crystal Cruises to run Travel Channel Academy courses at sea! Of course, Cruise Ships seem a pretty logical place to run a Travel Channel Academy. You are, after all, on the...

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We Launch NY Video School

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vONorpVbLYo&feature=channel_page[/youtube] Francisco shows how to make a music video Two years in the making, today we officially launched New York Video School.  www.nyvs.com We have been running video training bootcamps for more than 20 years now, but during that...

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