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.
Where Are Your Priorities?
1959 Caddy. But does democracy hinge on this? Washington, it seems, is not prepared to let the auto industry and Detroit go down the tubes. The bail out is going to happen, even if the White House has to...
Read moreThe Privileged Few
The J School is the building on the left…. I graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. That was a long time ago. We were a class filled with ambition, fired by Woodward and Bernstein (or...
Read moreThe Best of Times, The Worst of Times
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDBhg60UNI&hl=en&fs=1] A few years ago, Robin Sloan, who is now CTO at Current produced this incredibly prescient video. It still holds true. As the narrator says, and not to be too trite, ‘it is the best of times, it...
Read moreJury Duty You Can’t Avoid
School was never like this….. Yesterday, I was on Jury Duty. Jury Duty at CUNY. That’s City University of New York’s graduate school of journalism. The school is fortunate enough to have Prof. Jeff Jarvis teaching a course there...
Read moreA House of Cards
But at the end of the day, someone has to make the original content and be paid for it. Until now, that someone has been newspapers. But I think we are looking at the end of newspapers, and that is a...
Read moreWomen and Children First
And we had 70% market share…. The Day of Reckoning has arrived. Or at least it has started. Sam Zell’s Tribune Company goes Chapter 11. The New York Times is so close to the edge that it has to...
Read moreThe Reckoning
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyRepUqCN4c&hl=en&fs=1] My old friends Pam Yates and Paco de Onis own Skylight Pictures. They have been documentary filmmakers for years. Real documentary filmmakers. Pam won the Academy Award for Documentaries a few years ago for her film about Guatemala....
Read moreTC Academy New York
Today we conclude another session of the Travel Channel Academy in NY. This afternoon, we will certify another 40 gradautes of the Academy. We have sessions scheduled for 2009 in NY, DC and Santa Barbara, but places are already...
Read moreThe New Star Ledger
[blip.tv ?posts_id=1543020&dest=-1] Star Ledger VJ Andre Malok’s tour de force. Take a look at the quality of the reporting, the shooting, the editing. The whole package. The Newark Star Ledger is recreating itself as a digital content provider. It’s...
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