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.
A Tale of Two Companies
Forever loyal… The sign of a great book is when you keep referencing it. And so now I find myself doing the same with Jeff Jarvis’ What Would Google Do? In the book, Jarvis tells the story of how...
Read moreFarewell Len Shlain
Good-bye Len My friend Leonard Shlain died last week. I will miss him. It is not often that you read a book that changes the way you see the world. Perhaps only a handful in a lifetime. So it...
Read moreFresh Blood
Ready to make content…. This afternoon we will graduate another 40 Travel Channel Journalists and send them out to start creating content for The Travel Channel. We run 24 of these Travel Channel Academies each year. There are now...
Read moreWhat Wouldn’t Google Do?
Marcel Duchamps Nude on a Staircase…. Reading Jeff Jarvis’ book ‘What Would Google Do?’ I am more convinced than ever that he has painted the way the world is going to go. The ‘google’ approach brings incredible efficiencies to...
Read moreTCA New York
Once again, we initiate a Travel Channel Academy in New York. Starting today, 40 eager potential Travel Channel Journalists will go through our intensive 4-day training session. We’ll keep you posted on how it goes. This morning, Pat Younge,...
Read moreNot In My Book
Something you can believe in…. OK. Like many people I might, from time to time, google my own name to see how many hits I get. Just once or twice…. (38,531). And I might take a look at Wikipedia...
Read moreGoogle School?
Required reading When I was much younger I had a girlfriend who was and still is a curator at the Louvre in Paris. She was very much the product of a classical European education, including private school in Paris...
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