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.
Now 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...
Read moreMis-Information on the Middle East on TV News
CBS Sunday Morning (a show I used to work on, and maybe the best news show on TV) ran a piece this morning in which CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward endeavored to explain the differences between Shia and...
Read moreDear Dean of the Journalism School
Merry Christmas! For the past few days I have been writing about the ‘death’ of journalism as a profession. This morning, I got an email from a classmate of mine at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (Class of...
Read moreVideo Everywhere
Yesterday, a New York City cop made the mistake of cursing out an Uber taxi driver while his passenger recorded the whole thing on video. This was a big mistake, because today he was removed from his job on...
Read moreA Model for 21st Century Journalism
\ The British aren’t coming….And apparently neither is anyone else…. The newspaper business is dead. Yesterday, Comcast offered to buy The New York Daily News for One Dollar. And I don’t mean one copy of it. I mean the...
Read moreThe Need for Video Literacy
As simple as word processing We live in an entirely new world now. One that has never existed before at any time in human history. It’s called Screenworld. Today, we live in a world dominated by screens. The average...
Read moreThe Most Disruptive TV Technology Yet Has Arrived
The Real Meerkat Manor Has Arrived First it was Meerkat launching at SXSW. Then, a day later, it was Periscope. And there are surely more to come. Many more. The latest in the never-ending media/tech/video/TV revolution is ‘live streaming’....
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