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.
Why The Internet Is Different
No sooner does one job get swallowed up by the Internet than another one is fast behind it. Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal announced that is was bookkeepers who were on the digital chopping block. Is no one safe?...
Read moreThe 1% Is Us
With the touch of a button I eliminate 500,000 jobs- watch! Ever use an ATM? I am old enough to remember when, if you needed cash (and who did not), you went to the bank and stood on line...
Read moreHow Journalists Can Make Money
Last week, I wrote a blog for the Huffington Post entitled “The Job of Journalism is Finished” It got a lot of traction – and a lot of arguments. But at the end of the day, anyone who works...
Read moreBen Affleck – When is TMZ TMI?
Fighting for a Presidential fortune… (courtesy, Wikicommons) Actor Ben Affleck, recently the subject of the PBS Series Searching For Your Roots, a direct copy, by the way of the BBC series Who Do You Think You Are, found out that his...
Read moreWhat Now, Career-Wise?
Fortune Magazine this week published its list of “Worst Jobs for 2015“. Top of the list: Newspaper Reporter. And not far behind, Broadcaster and Photojournalist. The old-school journalism business is not looking too promising. Let me emphasize the ‘old...
Read moreA World Without Newspapers
All the news that’s fit to print…. I am old. I am so old that I still like to start each morning with a printed, paper newspaper at breakfast. I could read the paper online, on my iPad or...
Read moreNow Everyone Is A Journalist
In 1989, I went to work for Jan Stenbeck, the ‘Ted Turner’ of Scandinavia. Stenbeck was building the first commercial TV networks in Sweden, Norway and Denmark – TV3. As with any TV network, we went out to buy...
Read moreYou Are There – All The Time Now
Engraving by Willy Stöwer: Der Untergang der Titanic 1912 by Wikicommons Media When the Titanic went down in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912, it was one of the very first ships in the world equipped with a new-fangled...
Read moreThe “Journalists” vs. The Video
Walter Scott murder caught on iPhone Last week, following the MoJoCon in Dublin, there followed a heated discussion about the value of the ‘journalist’, culminating (perhaps) in an article in The Guardian by Roy Greenslade. My argument had...
Read moreWhat ISIS Gets That Hillary Does Not
Millions of views… In 2008, when Hillary was running for President (the first time), my wife and I were invited to a ‘Clinton Fundraising Dinner’ in the Hamptons. For a mere $10,000, we got a David Bouley dinner (which...
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