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 Produce from Anywhere and Everywhere
Skyping with Francisco in Ethiopia When I was a producer for CBS Sunday Morning (a million years ago), I lived on an airplane. If you wanted to produce TV shows, you had to go to the place they...
Read moreLessons from Amazon.com
I am reading The Everything Store by Brad Stone, the definitive biography of both Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com You can’t separate the two. Stone has done a masterful job of portraying Bezos and what makes him so successful....
Read moreGoogle Glass – The Seminar (in London)
A few months ago, we were fortunate enough to be able to get our hands on one of the first pair of Google Glass. They were released in limited numbers, mostly to web developers, as part of the...
Read moreGoogle Glass
Resistance is Futile Google Glass. I have now been using these for two days. It’s a base-line game changer. Like iPhones or PCs, Glass is going to change pretty much everything. Some people call this ‘wearable’ computing, but after...
Read moreWatching The Future of TV News in London
iPhones all around There was a pretty funny announcement this morning from Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo: “News is definitely a daily habit for our users,” said Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, “and Katie will work with our talented editorial team...
Read moreDay 4 at The Guardian Media Academy – London
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Read moreWho Needs Zombies?
The Dead Sea Yesterday, we caught the 7:40AM flight from Newark to Heathrow on Virgin Atlantic. This meant getting up at 4:00AM to be able to make the flight. I don’t mind getting up early, so I was in...
Read moreThe Carnival of Journalism Returns
For a while, Dave Cohn was running a wiki called Carnival of Journalism, in which participants were invited to user their blogs to comment on a specific subject each month. Around April of last year, like most things on...
Read moreWho Killed William McKinley?
The news that rocked the nation It is only now 112 years since President WIlliam McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo New York, but the event still captures the imagination of all Americans. Was there a conspiracy? Was there a...
Read moreMy Letter to Charlie Rose about JFK
My note to Charlie Rose today:Charlie I see you doing tons of stuff on JFK’s assassination as you lead up to November 22nd. Here’s a footnote to history of which you should be aware. I was, many years ago, a producer...
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