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.
25 Years Later
Just think….. It is hard to believe, but we are now preparing for the 25th anniversary reunion of my class at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. People I have not heard from in, oh, 25 years, are beginning...
Read moreHow To Get Ratings
If you don’t get ratings, you don’t survive…. Saturday morning, Silver Spring Maryland and Eliza Booth, Head of Marketing is talking to the Travel Academy Class about how marketing and programming weaves together. There aren’t too many people in...
Read moreWhy The Travel Channel Academy is Unique
Matt Gould explains what the network wants… If you are production company, you know the hard part is not coming up with ideas. Everyone has great ideas for new TV shows. The hard part is not even producing them....
Read more"Did Rosenblum Abandon Us?"
Nice guy Kevin Johnson has been running a lovely website for professional cameramen for years called b-roll.net. About 5 years ago, I was invited to participate on the site in a discussion about a rumor that ‘Ivan’ had heard...
Read moreUnstoppable
Get out of the way!!!! In 1821, George Stephenson, the ‘father of railways’ build the world’s first commercially viable steam railway between Darlington and Stockton-on-Tees, a distance of 14 miles. The train was not fast, It took nearly two...
Read moreA Question from the newspaper folks
“That is so true. I just had a reporter say to me: “I used to know what I was doing when I left the newsroom. I had a pen behind my ear and a notebook in my pocket. But...
Read moreDetroit Homicide
USING VJ SKILLS TO PILOT NEW SHOWS NBC’s Jeff Zucker just made the (to my mind) unusual announcement that henceforth NBC would not longer engage in piloting. This strikes me as a bit strange. I guess when you spend...
Read moreHere It Comes
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Read moreTravel Channel Student Blog
Here’s what Tanya posted on her blog today:
Read moreWhy VJs are Inevitable
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