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.
TRAVEL CHANNEL ACADEMY GRADS SPEAK
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ZgJmRSbNE&rel=1]] The grads of the most recent NY Travel Channel Academy speak for themselves!
Read moreThe Insanity Is Still Alive
I am deeply disturbed by an emailed blog I received this evening. It comes from something called “The Synagogue of Satan“, and it is a long, deep and deeply disturbed blog about how Jews both control the media and...
Read moreCheerleaders
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLwGqtt_Z78&rel=1]] OK. You want to see an example of my VJ work. Here’s one. I don’t make a living as a VJ. My job is to sell the concept, implement it, teach it. But from time to time I...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy – 2008
We’re starting the 2008 season off with our first Travel Channel Academy here in New York. Forty new freshly minted Travel Journalists (TJs) will soon be credentialed and ready to hit the streets of Shanghai, Mexico City, Nairobi and...
Read moreBack to School
Following the winter break, Lisa and I start our new class at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. Our curriculum is a bit ‘unorthodox’, but we think we’re giving them a good head start for...
Read moreI Stand Corrected
W. Eugene Smith is one of my heroes. He is one of Jim Hughes’ passions. Hughes is the author of W.Eugene Smith, Shadow and Substance. He sent me the following email, in response to my analogies between Leicas and...
Read moreKRON goes on the Block
Young Broadcasting announced today that is putting KRON, its San Francisco station up for sale. KRON was one of three stations we took into the full-blown VJ model in 2004/5. The people at KRON undertook an enormous amount of...
Read moreWhat Local News Can Learn from Obama
He rates well in a good demo… Presidential primaries are a lot like television shows. You roll out your pilots, and the ones that rate get commissioned. The ones that don’t rate die. The Chris Dodd Show, for example,...
Read moreLeaving Your Mark
 Like all tourists since Genghis Khan, we also made the trip to the Great Wall of China. First, despite its being one of the all-time greatest ‘tourist attractions’ in the world, it is without a doubt worth the...
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