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.
One Down… Two to Go
And that’s the way it is…. CBS News apparently is about to outsource part of its newsgathering operation to CNN, or so says The New York Times. This is hardly surprising. For far too long network news operations have...
Read moreAfter 25 Years
Last night, we held an open house herefor members of the Class of 1983, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. It was my class, and it’s our 25th Anniversary. The class has done well. We have 5 Pulitzer Prize...
Read moreThe Bottom of the Barrel
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vg4BTPIqbI&hl=en] If there were an Emmy for dumbness, this one would win. While newspapers embrace video and we debate whether the revolution that Leica brought to photojournalism can be translated to small video cameras, there is another revolution going...
Read moreWhen Photographers Go To Video
David Hume Kennerly In 1990, on the heels of NY1, I was approached by a Wall Street guy who suggested that I should raise some money and start my own company based on the VJ concept. He took me...
Read moreWe Take The Newark Star Ledger to Video
The morning meeting – now its print, online and video This morning we began a project we have been awaiting with great anticipation- taking The Newark Star Ledger into the world of video. The Star Ledger is the 15th...
Read moreA Guy at a Desk with a Box Over His Shoulder
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz……… Same old… same old….. I travel all the time, and whenever I get to a new city, I go to the hotel and turn on the TV set. No matter what country I am in, I always know...
Read moreThe Machine is Us/ing Us.
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&hl=en]] Check out this video from Prof. Michael Wesch.
Read moreVideo Like Heroin
THE MOST ADDICTIVE DRUG …what’s on Fox? For the past 60 years, we have all been participating in a massive sociological experiment, the results of which are just now becoming clear. Today, the average American watches 4.5 hours of...
Read moreA Man and A Woman
Anouk Aimee Watching Claude Lelouch’s A Man and A Woman (Un Homme et Une Femme) last night, I was taken at the utter simplicity yet power of the film. Made in 1966, and winner of the Academy Award for...
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