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.
Taking Video to the Next Level
Mark Rothko….videographer? I live over the Musuem of Modern Art in NY. The apartment is in fact, part of the museum, and as such, we are members of the museum. With our membership we can bypass the long lines...
Read moreImages from DNA2009
It looked touch and go until the very last minutes. Many other media conferences have simply thrown in the towel and cancelled. We decided not to, and our blind faith (and deep anxiety) paid off as more than 250...
Read moreThe Zombie Media
Hold the front page! They are the walking dead. Conventional media companies, that is. They are already dead, they just don’t know it. “I’m still alive” they say. Tear off an arm… or fire 30% of your editorial staff…...
Read moreThe Winner Is….
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/3335210[/vimeo] Alexandra Garcia, videojournalist with The Washington Post has won the Concentra Award for Videojournalism for 2009. The 10,000 Euro prize, along with the statue will be awarded to her as soon as she returns from her current shooting...
Read moreLive Blogging DNA2009
Prepping for the award… Following lunch, the established media got a chance to react to the Google new media threat. Ben Hammersly from Wired Magazine chaired the session, and was joined by Simon Bucks, from Sky news, Pat Loughrey...
Read moreLive Blogging DNA
front row, center I am live blogging from DNA2009.com here in Brussels at the Plaza Hotel. We had a great deal of trepidation as we approached the opening day. Many other conferences had and have cancelled. We pushed on…...
Read moreInherit The Wind
He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart. -Proverbs 11:29 The 1960 film Inherit The Wind fictionalized the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial over evolution and the...
Read moreSolutions That Work – TV
I know.. gimme a second… This morning I was at TV Limburg in Roermond, Holland. Yeah, I know. Where? Roermond, Holland. You probably have never heard of it, but you should. Because in Roermond a fascinating exercise in the...
Read moreWeapons of Mass Democratization
The first media mogul… Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeni understood mass media. While he was still an exile in Paris he began to smuggle audio casettes into the Shah’s Iran. On the tapes, which became wildly popular, he cast the Shah...
Read moreWake Up!!!
I read newspapers online….why? The San Francisco Chronicle is dead. So apparently are the 150 year old Rocky Mountain News, The Baltimore Sun, The Chicago Tribune, The LA Times, The New York Times and just about every other major...
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