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.
My 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),...
Read moreThe Bacon Channel!
What’s going to happen now??? I am launching The Bacon Channel I am sure it is going to be a big success. How do I know? Amazon recently bought Twitch – a gaming channel. It isn’t a channel where you play...
Read moreThe Irish Rebellion, The Printing Press & The iPhone
The Easter Rising, (Éirí Amach na Cáscaone), of the most significant events in Irelands long march to independence from British rule, occurred on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916 and lasted for six days. The British army responded with crushing...
Read moreThe Best and Worst Jobs for 2014
Forbes Magazine recently posted a list of the Ten Best and Worst Jobsfor 2014. Newspaper Journalist came in 2nd. Second worst job you can have. Lumberjack was first. Of course, as a lumberjack you get to spend a lot of...
Read moreINSTAGRAM AND INSTANT DEATH
My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1971 Photo WIkileaks Commons / Library of Congress Vietnam was called “The Livingroom War”. That’s because it was the first war in US history that came along with live television coverage. For the first time,...
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