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.
Newspapers to Video
Live from the newspaper This week The Washington Post announced that they were going to train 300 people in their newsroom to be video literate. Across the country, newspapers are rapidly embracing video. As newspapers and video migrate to...
Read moreChop The Carrots
[youtube=<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/d5DQqiWHyaI&hl=en”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/d5DQqiWHyaI&hl=en” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>] Want to see what the Travel Channel Academy is like? Here are a few minutes from the ‘5-shot’ lecture. For those of you who have already taken the course, you...
Read moreStoney Goldstein Changes His Life
[youtube=<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_PdWrQmMDxU&hl=en”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_PdWrQmMDxU&hl=en” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>] As Stoney Goldstein emails me, ‘youtube really sucks’. There is terrible deterioration in the quality of the video, but you’ll still get the idea. Stoney just took our 4-day course...
Read moreWhat are YOU doing this weekend?
44 lucky people are spending this weekend in Washington DC at the Travel Channel Academy, where they’re making a lifelong relationship with a cable broadcasting network and learning an important new skill. And they’re also having a heck of...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy DC
We kick off another 4-day Travel Channel Academy bootcamp with a full house and a team ready to go. For the very first time we are working out of Travel Channel’s new offices in Chevy Chase. Nice!
Read moreLedger Live!
OK Joe…talk to me… Yesterday you saw what a great job the journalists at the Newark Star Ledger were doing in adapting to video. They beat the crap out of local TV news… and they haven’t even started yet!...
Read moreExtra: Newspaper VJ Kills Local TV News Crew
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96fEcJ1sPlE&hl=en]} The video above was the first news story ever shot by newbie Newark Star Ledger VJ Andre Malok. Malok had just complete his one-week bootcamp. He had never touched a video camera or an edit system before. Now,...
Read moreWhat’s Your Trip
What’s Your Trip host Andrew Zimmern and EP Sue Norton We’re buried deep in the production of What’s Your Trip. We’ve been busy accumulating videos after the first four shows aired, and now we’ve got more than 300 great...
Read moreThat Old Black Magic
For my next trick…video!!! Since its inception, television has been a ‘dark art’. Complicated. Expensive. Able to be accomplished by only a ‘trained’ few. Magic… or so it seemed. Crate after crate of equipment, lights, gels, cables, booms, wires...
Read moreThe Newly Liberated
The first tranche of the Travel Channel staff will complete their bootcamp today. It has been a liberating experience for them. Liberating in that they have now been empowered with the tools and the skills to create content in...
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