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.
Mis-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’....
Read moreJournalism: The Triumph of the Machines
Speaking at Mojocon yesterday in Dublin, Ireland Yesterday, I was a speaker at MojoCon, a conference on Mobile Journalism, held in Dublin, Ireland. The topic was, obviously, Mobile Journalism – that is, using iPhones and such to work as...
Read moreThe Calculus of News and Journalism
Where f is the audience, x is the news value…. When I went to school, there were two kinds of students: Math students and the rest of us. I was decidedly amongst the ‘rest of us’, as anything beyond...
Read moreApple News Has 700 Million Bureaus; CBS News has 19
Theverge.com reported today that Apple has now sold more than 700 million iPhones worldwide. (The photo is theirs). That is a LOT of iPhones. (Buy Apple shares, before the Watch hits the street). Those 700 million iPhones are more...
Read moreiPhone Video and Nuclear Weapons
For Sale: SONY PS3 Hardy Used. $55 million In 1992, the United States signed the SALT Treaty. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. The treaty would both limit nuclear weapons and begin a scale-back on those that existed. To comply...
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