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.
Concentra Nominees
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/3334394[/vimeo] Travis Fox, The Washington Post, USA [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/3335097[/vimeo] Stef Biemans, VPRO, Netherlands [vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/3334862[/vimeo] Subina Shreshta, Al Jazeera, Dubai Above, three of the 8 finalists for the Concentra Videojournalism Award. The 10,000 Euro prize will be presented next week during...
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Don’t look back… The Heart Corporation announced today that it was going to sell or close the San Francisco Chronicle. This means that San Francisco could lose its largest and most powerful newspaper. The Chronicle lost $50 million last...
Read moreRethinking News
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Read moreMaking the Case to Radio Free Europe
The managers of RFE/RL today While the first group was out shooting their first assignment, I went over the RFE/RL headquarters in downtown Prague to make the case for the digital revolution to the management of Radio Free Europe...
Read moreRadio Free Europe goes VJ
Prague… home to RFE We are here in Prague to kick off our first VJ training bootcamp with Radio Free Europe. While RFE is headquartered in Prague, its work today takes place in locations like Kazakhstan or Turkemenstan. And...
Read moreThe ‘Other’ Academy…
Resistance is futile… We like to think that we are on the cutting edge of the video revolution. We are at a moment where, for the very first time, anyone can get access to the tools, and indeed the...
Read moreOur Day with the GSA
No exteriors! About two years ago, we were invited to a fund raiser for Senator Hillary Clinton as she was making her run for the Presidency. It was at the home of a VRG (Very Rich Guy) in the...
Read moreNewspapers….and Coal
Can’t see the forest….. In 1450, Europe suffered its first major energy crisis. It ran out of wood. For more than 2,000 years Europeans had depended upon the seemingly endless forests of Europe to provide them with all they...
Read moreSki & Shoot
Could you go back and do that again? I didn’t learn to ski until I was 40. My ex was a Canadian, and started skiing at the age of 3. Her parents had a ski house in Sugarbush, Vermont....
Read moreWelcome to the Video Revolution
call now. operators are standing by… The Travel Channel Academy is a great course, but its also expensive. $2000 is a lot to commit for a novice, (not that we don’t have our share of novices in the course)....
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