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.

What Is News Worth?

Single white female seeks…. Following the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour in 1537, King Henry VIII of England was convinced to marry Anne of Cleves (pictured above), to cement an alliance with the newly Protestant German state....

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Now Here’s a TV Show

Crocodile bite… Every once in a while an honest-to-God TV show comes up and just bites you in the ass… That was how I felt yesterday when Dr. Adam Kushner dropped by the house for cup of coffee. He...

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What is Journalism?

This just in…. In 1798, Napoleon invaded Egypt. Feeling the pressure of rising unemployment in France, and seeing the power that British colonies had given England, Napoleon set forth with his fleet, first picking off the riches of Malta...

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Is Journalism Worth Anything?

All the news… In 1988 when I quit my job at CBS News and moved into Gaza with a small video camera, the very idea of doing that was rare. There wasn’t a lot of in-depth coverage coming out...

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The Gaza Flipcam Project

Please read the enclosed. If you have any ideas or would like to become involved, please get in touch. thanks info@rosenblumtv.com The Gaza Flipcam Project Concept:  New technologies create the opportunity to create a new kind of journalism. The...

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Video Free Europe

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AVNCiAbd14[/youtube] Driving democracy through video…. A few months ago, we were in Prague, where we ran a pilot bootcamp for Radio Free Europe. When I was young, I remember TV ads for Radio Free Europe. Eastern Europe was then...

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Impressionist Journalism

Live from the park… Georges Seurat… NPR New technologies drive new ideas….but it often isn’t a pretty.. or obvious process. The advent of photography toward the end of the 19th Century spelled the death knell for a generation of...

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The Power of a Blog Post

Not quite Dell… but it works… Jeff Jarvis begins his book What Would Google Do with an anecdote about a problem he had with a Dell computer. Getting no satisfaction from Dell, he blogged about it. Soon enough, a...

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Charlie Parsons’ Movie

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrDBbPp8vHg&feature=channel_page[/youtube] Charlie Parsons took the TCA course last week in DC. He had never picked up a video camera or edited video before. Now, in all fairness, Charlie is the Executive Producer for the Tony Bourdain show for The...

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Video Revolution on Saturday in NY

You don’t often get a whole revolution in one day… On Saturday, Jeff Jarvis and I will conduct a one-day intensive seminar on The Video Revolution at the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of NY. The...

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