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.

Everest

Available for charter for only €200,000 per week Cocktails on the foredeck? In 1992, when I was just starting to put VNI together, one of my first investors was Alan Sidnam. Alan was then Vice Chairman of the ad...

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Juice

We are spending a few days with our friend and business partner, Ernest Bujok. Ernie has recently bought a house in Tuscany, so he invited us (and about a dozen other people) to drop in for a few days....

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A Three Hour Tour

What now little buddy? When I was a kid, there were only a handful of channels. As a result, everyone ended up watching pretty much the same thing. And as a result, if I sit around a dining room...

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CNN Bureaus Go VJ

From The New York Times: NYT-August 12, 2008, 2:37 pm CNN’s Strategy: Bureaus Out, Flexible Journalists In By Brian Stelter CNN announced Tuesday that it would “double its domestic news-gathering presence” by assigning journalists to 10 additional cities across...

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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...

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Olympic 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...

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A 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.

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Al 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...

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Mille 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...

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The 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...

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