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.
Facebook and the Face of Islam
You can be my ‘friend’ 14 years ago, I contracted with the Eritrean Liberation Army to help build their TV station, ERITV in Asmara, the capital of the newly independent nation of Eritrea. Eritrea had fought a 30 years...
Read moreMcGraw-Hill Magazines & VJs
Steve Gruskin explains ‘over-write’. This week, we ran our first ‘bootcamp’ for journalists and managers from McGraw-Hill’s magazines. Highly experienced print journalists, with years of experience, took to video as an adjunct to their story-telling and reporting skills. It...
Read moreCharacter is Destiny
Can you read the above? You better learn fast. Because in the next century we’re all going to be speaking this language. As we have moved from a print-based culture to a video-based culture, what we have failed to...
Read moreThe AP goes VJ
Job Vacancies Bowing to the inevitable, and opening the door to lots of other newsgathering agencies, AP joints NBC in moving to VJs: Video Journalist Closing Date: 7 December 2007 Ref No: APTN102 Department: News The Associated Press is...
Read more"Do You Ever Read The Books You Burn"?
Some years ago, on the heels of the success of Trauma, Life in the ER, we began shooting other ‘reality’ shows – Paramedics, Police Force, Breaking News and so on. One we tried, without success, was Fire Fighters. We...
Read more$14,000 VJ Prize
Once again, this year, we are offering a prize of $14,000 for the world’s best VJ piece. (It is actually 10,000 Euros, but thanks to quality management of the US economy by the Bush Administration, the Euro, (once with...
Read moreCingular is the new AT&T is the new Soviet Union
Networksi no workski About 6 months ago, my trusty TREO died. It had always been problematic, so I decided to replace it with a Blackberry. There is a Cingular store on the corner of 53rd Street and 6th Avenue,...
Read moreVideojournalist in England
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyT__Z8sCAs] In 1993, on the heels of NY1, I was invited to London to help build the London version of NY1, Channel 1. It was the brainchild of the very far-thinking Sir David English and his Associated Newspaper group....
Read moreNY1 – 15 Years Later
Many thanks to Ed Sharpe who makes me aware of this story. NY1 celebrates it’s 15th year. And it’s still a VJ station and still going strong. Digitalcontentproducer.com celebrates the event. Read it here. It is hard to believe...
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