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.
USA TODAY @ TCA
Picture this… Yes, at long last Travel Channel Academy is about to get the recognition that we so richly deserve! The lovely people from USA TODAY are here doing a feature on us. Travel Channel President and GM Pat...
Read moreA Sure Thing
Place your bets Our friend Pat Younge was over for dinner last night. He’s the President and CEO of The Travel Channel, and besides being a friend is our business partner. Now, the thing I really like about Pat,...
Read moreVideo Literacy – Part 2
tell me a story… In response to my last posting on Video Literacy (March 25, 2009), valid points were raised by both Marc Kusnetz and Martin Fletcher on what is meant by video literacy, exactly. Fletcher relates a story...
Read moreLight At The End of the Tunnel
Keep going… we’re almost there… My two day stint at the Guardian (UK) last week was the most encouraging encounter with newspaper video I have had in a very long time. It was encouraging because, (a) The Guardian ‘gets...
Read moreFreedom to Fail
Cheap enough to take a risk… Want to write a novel? According to my friend Jeff Jarvis, 81% of Americans believe they have a book in them. If you want to write a novel, all that is required is...
Read moreScreenworld
What time is Family Guy on? Media Life reports this week that the average American now spends 8.5 hours a day staring at some kind of screen, whether its television, computer or cellphone. 8.5 hours a day, every day,...
Read moreWhat Is Video Literacy?
What does it say? When Gutenberg first laid paper to inked typeface, there were almost no rules of grammar. For more than 1,000 years, literacy, where there was any at all, had rested in the far off monastaries. Punctuaction,...
Read moreReport from Prague
This just in from Tim French, our point person for the Radio Free Europe VJ Project. When Tim is not in Prague, he’s busy training print reporters from The Los Angeles Times to shoot video for the paper. And...
Read moreAnd Now…The News….
And that’s the way it is… LONDON: Spent two days sequestered with The Guardian, imho the best newspaper in the world. They are making a major commitment to video; their spiffy new offices have full blown video and audio...
Read moreJarvis – Rosenblum
You don’t get this every day…. A CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Continuing Education Workshop Date: Saturday, March 28 Time: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Where: CUNY Graduate School of Journalism 219 W. 40th St., New York, NY Cost: $195 (10%...
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