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.
Journalism: 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...
Read moreMy Biggest Mistake Ever
Idiot!!!! In 1992, I had just launched a new business called Video News International. It was the world’s first video journalist network. I had trained and equipped more than 100 VJs around the world, many of them highly...
Read moreWhat Is News?
Creating yet another room full of Travel Journalists Yesterday, I wrote a blog entitled ‘Today We Are All Journalists”. I also published this in the Huffington Post (which gets a slightly – though only very slightly) greater readership than my...
Read moreToday We All Are Journalists
Training print reporters at The Daily Telegraph (UK) to shoot their own video with iPhones The media is the child of technology. It was the invention of the printing press that begat newspaper, magazines and books. The printing press...
Read moreBurn It To The Ground
courtesy: Wikicommons In the Book of Exodus, it tells us that the Israelites wandered in the desert for forty years. This was not because they were lost. (Or that the men refused to ask anyone for directions). The Israelites...
Read moreThe Look of the New
In 1994, I launched a new company called Video News International. It was based on the idea of using VJs around the world to create television; an idea that, at that time, was considered extremely radical. Television then was...
Read moreDo You Really Wanna Be A Geek All Of Your Life????
Career prep for the non-math students amongst us… OK When I was in school, there were two kinds of people: math and non-math. The math people walked around with slide rules in their pockets (yes, I am that old),...
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