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.
Smaller and smaller…..
come back in two years for the next photo In 1988 I went to Korea to cover the Olympics for CBS News. My brother-in-law Ted Savaglio was in charge of the CBS contingent, and as such, he the first...
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Larry Page and Sergei Brin….ca. 1776 July 4, 1776 and Thomas Jefferson, with help from a few other folks, finishes up the Declaration of Independence. In the days when there was still a smattering of education in the United...
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key to survival A posting on b-roll.net and a conversation at lunch yesterday with Kevin Klose, former President of NPR and new Dean of the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland gave me food for...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy VJ Hits It Big!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDjJnprA7ys[/youtube] Bradley Nesbitt, VJ for our Verizon station in DC and trainer for Travel Channel Academy courses makes a big hit with his ESPN video. We expect to see Bradly as a regular on ESPN in the near future....
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX2BjNIBfKw&feature=PlayList&p=9D2BD5EFA11953BD&index=0[/youtube] TCA Grad Mike Ungar’s story on what it is like to be a student at the TCA. This week’s students will relate.
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Back to school in September…. This morning we are kicking off a whole new Travel Channel Academy here in DC. On the heels of the Radio Free Europe session in Prague, (and starting with GSA.gov in DC in two...
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TV on Life Support… In 1994 I owned a company called VNI, Video News International. One of the things that we did was to produce television shows for cable, and one of the shows we produced was called Trauma,...
Read moreBillions Served
Watch this space… US Internet viewers watched a staggering 8.9 billion videos last month. Last month! 99% of these were on Youtube. So reports 247wallst.com. This number is simply astonishing. On Youtube, the average number of videos watched per...
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The 747 of its day… Yesterday we flew from London back to New York. We were on Virgin Atlantic, the best airline for that trip, and laying down, covered in a duvet, I turned on the reading light and...
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