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.
Broadband Olympics?
Genius The Olympics are one of those things that only TV networks can do… or is it? In a world of broadband, as opposed to broadcasting, how might the Olympics be ‘broadcast’? The way NBC is doing it this...
Read moreOlympic Memories
The last time I had a ‘real’ job was 1988. I was working as a producer for CBS News, and my last assignment was to go to the Seoul Olympics. I was working with Bill Geist, a contributor for...
Read moreA Few More Wedding Photos
taking a break from the blog (at least for a day or two!) while soaking up the sun, sand and sea here in Elba. Meanwhile, a few more shots from Villa Pignano.
Read moreAl Jazeera and the VJs
bisme allahi al rahman al rahim… We first met the folks from Al Jazeera at the DNA2008 conference in Brussels. In fact, their Tony Birtley won the prize for best breaking VJ story for his coverage of the Burma...
Read moreMille Grazie
Many many thanks for your kind emails and postings. We have had a wonderful, almost magical time here in Tuscany. Spending a week at the Villa Pignano was a bit like spending a week inside one of those jigsaw...
Read moreThe Wedding Party
We got married yesterday. It was a lovely affair, in a villa in Tuscany. The last time I got married it was in a hotel in Montreal. There were 250 guests, of which 200 or so were business clients...
Read moreThis Just In…
Here’s the headline: End Of Discussion! Yesterday, our regular reader from Fox wrote to me: The day that paper, or any other in the country, covers the headline story of the day, every day, with a video version, is...
Read moreBack To Life
That’s life In 1936, Time Magazine publisher Henry R. Luce bought the rights to the name LIFE and founded a magazine that would come to dominate print journalism for nearly forty years. Luce turned LIFE into the world’s first...
Read moreThe Chosen
This just in….. Television did not appear as a gift from God. The Lord did not appear before Sarnoff, Paley and Goldensohn in the form of a burning bush and select them to carry His word forth. No one...
Read moreHow The Mighty Have Fallen
Toy who da? Yesterday, The Telegraph reported that the Ford Motor Company is declaring losses of $8.7 billion for the quarter. $8.7 billion On the same day, Toyota passed GM as the number one auto maker in the world....
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