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.
Women 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...
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[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....
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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...
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[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...
Read moreDorothy Rodham and Me
My newest friend…. Yesterday, I got an email from Dorothy Rodham, Hillary Clinton’s mother. I don’t know Dorothy. Never met her. But the Internet creates all kinds of instant intimacies. You meet people you never thought you would meet....
Read moreNews from Newark
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noytnvRxcTg&hl=en&fs=1[/youtube] A shy New Jersey chiaropractor suffers a stroke on a golf course, and his life is suddenly transformed. He can’t stop making art. We were out in Newark this week at a mass meeting to talk about new...
Read moreIf You Bild It….. will they come?
Email this morning from Pat Younge, President of the Travel Channel.* He sends me a link from The Guardian, that BILD, the German newspaper has partnered with a German supermarket to sell small cameras and field an army of citizen...
Read moreThe Repository of All Human Knowledge
what would you like to know…. OK It’s one of those late night Science Fiction movies in which a time traveller goes into the future and discovers that the whole world has become a land in which learning and...
Read moreHello Bolly
She’s the little old lady from Utta Pradesh now… James MacPherson is the publisher of an online website called Pasadena Now. Pasadenanow.com is causing a lot of buzz in the journalism community. Not because it’s hyperlocal news. that’s old...
Read moreOh wiki wiki world…
The Whole Earth Cataloge for the digital age….kind of… About two years ago, someone gave me a heads up that I had an entry in the Wikipedia under my name. Well that was nice, and a certain sign of...
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