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.

Every Picture Tells a Story….

Robert Capa brought home the truth of the Spanish Civil War… We live in a world of images. The intense power of images to convey both emotion and truth have been all around us since Matthew Brady captured both...

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This Just In…….

Mark Antonitis, GM at KRON4 in San Francisco sends us the following: CLASSIFIEDS VIDEO JOURNALISTS/Associated Press, Washington, DC Jun. 27, 2007-Jul. 13, 2007 The Associated Press seeks video journalists and producers for our online and video services. Video journalists...

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The Future of Local TV News?

is this the future of tv news?

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TC Academy Goes Live

….from pilot to reality….. In the TV business, one first does a pilot. If it rates it goes to series. In March of this year, we ran a pilot of our Travel Channel Academy in partnership with The Travel...

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KGTV Part 4

…now we’ve reached critical mass…. This week, we returned to KGTV for the fourth VJ (or as they call it here), DC (for Digital Correspondent) bootcamp. There are 10 journalists, camerapeople, editors, producers as well as one assignment editor...

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Banana Republic

..today it’s oil….then it was bananas…. We live in a world in which our perception of events is informed almost exclusively by television.

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Carpe Medium – Part 1

Is this the face of the future? The New York Times ran a fascinating piece today in the Entertainment section about Rosie O’Donnell’s webcasts. Having left The View, and network television, lately she has taken to webcasting her own...

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2 Music Videos

Today, in a radical departure from our usual fare of news, documentaries, and of all forms of travel, we’re going to take a look at two music videos. What makes looking at them of interest to us is that...

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Reflections on Design

Santiago Calatrava, Malmo, Sweden I am putting together a new series for Discovery on architecture around the world with Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker.

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Thank You Thomas J. Watson

A life-changing experience….. The expression ‘Changed my Life’ is bandied about easily. Not this time. Thirty years ago today (though it now seems hard to believe that so much time has passed), a powerful life-changing event in my own...

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