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.
Critical Mass
Chicago reactor team. Enrico Fermi, first row, first on left. For more than a year, physicist Enrico Fermi and his team had been building a pile of blocks under the racquet courts at the University of Chicago. The pile...
Read moreKPIX SF Goes VJ
Two down, three to go… KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco announced today that they are moving to a VJ-driven newsroom. The official press release today said: Feb 11, 2009 3:58 PM EST KPIX management told the staff...
Read moreThe World’s First Liquidity Crisis
The depth of the current financial crisis is far more than a mere recession. Trillions of dollars seem to have effectively disappeared.
Read moreRight Facts, Wrong Conclusion
Columnist and writer Michael Kinsley in the New York Times today opines, You Can’t Sell News by the Slice. Kinsley, like everyone else, is grappling with the search for the Holy Grail of how to keep newspapers alive.
Read moreTravel Channel Academy Results
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YttQxQfYYaY[/youtube] Jeff Day had never touched a video camera or an edit system before he walked into the Travel Channel Academy course in DC on Thursday. We put him through our extremely rigorous 4-day video bootcamp. We emphasize excellence....
Read moreOnly Yesterday
In 1981, KRON4 (of all people) ran the story embedded above. It was about a radical new experiment. A newspaper in San Francisco was putting its newspaper online.
Read moreTune in Tonight!
I am going to be a guest again on Curtis Sliwa’s show on ABC talk radio tonight at 11:20 pm. Take that, Jeff Jarvis! You may be invited to speak at Davos, but I am on Curtis!
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – DC
Yesterday we wrapped up the bootcamp for the staff of The Travel Channel and this morning we are starting another Travel Channel Academy here in DC at Travel Media HQ. As the economy comes under increasing pressure, ironically, the demand...
Read moreA New Industrial Revolution
Yesterday, Pat Younge, President and GM of The Travel Channel addressed the group here in DC. The group is made up of 40 of his employees, so they paid attention.
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