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 – Los Angeles

Some images from the Travel Channel Academy this week in Los Angeles. Held at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel. \

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Magna Carta and the Video Revolution

read it and weep…. Sotheby’s, the auction house, recently announced that a rare copy of the Magna Carta, signed by King John I in 1215 is to be auctioned off. Once owned by Ross Perot, the document is expected...

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Travel Channel Academy Opens LA Branch

and that’s the way it is…. Today we’re in Hollywood.

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Polaroid and Darwin

Not even Jim Garner could save it in the end… 2007 marks the 70th anniversary of Polaroid.

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VJ Report from Afghanistan

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPaTgRPr4O4] One of our instructors here at The Travel Channel Academy is Bill Gentile. I first met Bill in 1993, when we were training out very first group of VJs. Bill was a photojournalist for Newsweek, who had cut...

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Report from TCA

Some images from the first editing session at Travel Channel Academy

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Travel Channel Academy – again!

Pay attention! We are back at Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, Md, to conduct yet another Travel Channel Academy. We are going straight from here to Los Angeles to start one there. Enrollments have been filling classes in...

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Rather Revolting

now the truth comes out Dan Rather’s $70 million law suit against CBS News is going to pull back the curtain on a fact that everyone who works for network news knows, but until now, the public has had...

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A Real Life Last King of Scotland

[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5oBxBAY3fg]] Joseph Kony is a real life “Last King of Scotland”. He is the founder and deeply feared leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a radical rebel group in Northern Uganda seeking to establish a Christian theocracy based...

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Morning After TV – LONDON

Terracotta Warrior at the British Museum Tonight, the UK branch of Themorningafter.tv is completing its first project.

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