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.
Travel Channel Academy New York
Left the Leica home so I shot it with the mac A mere 8 hours after landing in NY, we started a new Travel Channel Academy class in New York. Yesterday, Pat Younge, President and GM for The Travel...
Read moreReport from MediaOn
não falo português Last night I gave the keynote address to open MediaOn 2008 in Sao Paolo, Brazil. The conference was sponsored by Itau Cultural. It’s a gathering of broadcasters, newspapers and online journalists from all across Latin America....
Read moreHello Mrs. Chips
Good Morning Brazil… This morning, we wake up in the almost incomprehensible Sao Paolo. With a population of nearly 20 million people, covering an area of 3,108 square miles, it is the largest city in the world. (by some...
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If you were born 500 years ago…..can you hear me in the back? We are in lovely Rio de Janiero. I came down here to be the keynote speaker at MediaOn, a Latin American conference on online digital journalism,...
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The whole world on the shelf… When I was a kid my parents bought the World Book Encyclopedia. It was amazing. Particularly that thing on the human body, where they had those transparent pages of organs, bones, veins and...
Read moreAmusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman 1931-2003 Every once in a while you read a book that changes your life. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman was such a book for me. Although I read it in 1985, it was a book...
Read moreVermont in the News
Marselis Parsons, News Director and Anchor for WCAX TV. Can we talk? Labor Day in Vermont is tough. Rather than fly back to NY, we spent the day at the Champlaign State Fair, just outside of Burlington, Besides the...
Read moreBittman-Doe & Dough
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Ah9ES2yTU&hl=en&fs=1] This weekend, having just flown in from London, we got on a Jet Blue flight to Burlington, Vermont, where we spent the weekend at the Mark Bittman / Kelly Doe wedding. Bittman is an old friend of ours,...
Read moreThere’s Something Happening Here…
Obama before 84,000 fans in Denver…. New technologies demand new ideas. Really radical new ideas. The biggest mistake people can make is to try and jam new technologies into old business models. Newspapers, for example, are in serious, serious...
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