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.
The Law of Unintended Consequences
Sir Thomas More by Holbein 1593 New technologies often bring with unintended consequences. No matter how sure and certain our morals or beliefs may start out, they can turn our worlds upside down. Sir Thomas More was Henry VIII’s...
Read moreCall It Printing Press Day
Hold the front page! Today we are celebrating Columbus Day. Here in New York, there is a massive parade up Fifth Avenue, which has clogged up my entire neighborhood. Fine. As elementary school students are taught, Christopher Columbus discovered...
Read moreThe End of Empire
Are we headed in the same direction? These days I spend a fair amount of time in England. The fate of Britain never ceases to amaze me. For more than 200 years, this tiny island quite literally ran the...
Read moreEyes on the Prize
Selling last year’s rug on eBay… We are gearing up for this year’s DNA2009 Digital News Conference in Brussels. The headline for all VJs is that we are once again awarding our €10,000 prize for the best VJ piece...
Read moreWhat Can You Believe?
Cover the world… People like to say that we are awash in information. Actually, nothing could be farther from the truth. We have until now lived in a world of very limited information. It may have been broadcast globally,...
Read moreThe Ministry of Truth
Guaranteed 100% true. You can count on it. Last week, ‘citizen journalism’ (more on this term in a minute) suffered its first major crisis….maybe. A CNN iReporter posted an iNews item (lots of i’s here), that Apple CEO Steve...
Read moreHe Gets It
In early 1994, I was approached by a man named Sir David English, one of the greatest newspapermen and journalists in British history. He was going to build the first 24-hour TV news channel in London. It would be...
Read moreStar Ledger Lives!
[blip.tv ?posts_id=1318322&dest=-1] The Star Ledger, New Jersey’s biggest newspaper seemed, for a while, to be in trouble. All newspapers are in trouble today, but parent Conde Nast was threatening to sell the paper unless the unions took a number...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy New York
Once again, we are back in NY to kick off another Academy. 40 folks from as far away as Maui and England have come together in NY for 4 days that will change their lives.
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