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.
Rosenblum Institute Coming To South Africa
Where the hell is lunch? We spent the day today at the Rosenblum Institute in Brussels meeting with Concentra News execs as well as a team that flew up yesterday all the way from Capetown, South Africa. Among other...
Read moreGreetings from Brussels
who the hell are Avalon and Havana? Many people have told me I belong in an institute, and now I am in one. The Rosenblum Institute. Founded by Concentra, the Belgian media company, it is a training center for...
Read moreBigger is Not Always Better
Now, here’s a professional cell phone… It’s a funny thing with the cameras. The small cameras are regarded as ‘toys’. Only the big cameras are ‘real’. This is contrary to how we think about every other piece of digital...
Read moreA Camera as the Pencil
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nhGl1VbAig&rel=1]] Sean Smith is a full time Videojournalist with The Guardian, the UK newspaper. He is one of a new breed of journalists who carry their own small digital camera and report on their own. Last week he won...
Read moreOn The Cutting Edge
Americans like to believe that they are on the cutting edge of technology. Sometime they are. Sometimes they are not. When it come to the VJ Revolution, they are pretty much playing catch-up with Europe. Most European media companies...
Read moreGood Luck Tim French!
Tim works with Dutch Public TV I first met Tim French when I was at Oxygen Media. I had come to train 90 VJs to produce their day to day content. Tim was a staff editor, but he was...
Read moreWhy It Takes 40 Years
Thou shalt have one man crews…. In the Good Book, in the Book of Exodus, the Jews wander in the desert for 40 years before they reach the Promised Land. They don’t wander for 40 years because they were...
Read moreOf Papyrus and Video
Too expensive to wrap fish in…. Ever wonder why Linear B, the Greek script, goes from right to left? So do Hebrew and Arabic… while English, French, Italian and all western languages go from left to right? Here’s a...
Read moreTHE TRUTH ABOUT KRON
The KRON Newsroom – more like a newsroom, less like The Office. There is no question that Young Broadcasting has had its share of woes. After paying far too much for KRON, and then suffering a war with GE...
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