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.
Giant Video Walls!
Suddenly, it’s everywhere In 1990, SONY wanted to put a giant video screen they called the Jumbotron at the southern end of Times Square. It was, at the time, cutting edge technology. Measuring 42 feet x 23 feet, it...
Read moreSky News’ Joe Daunt Shoots His Own Marathon on an iPhone for Air
POV. Joe Daunt, a VJ reporter we trained for Sky News’ Tyne and Wear (near Newcastle, UK), sent me this report that aired last week. He took part in the BUPA (it’s a health company in the UK) Great...
Read moreStorytelling Comes To Commercials – And Not Too Expensive!
The Summer Movie Season was nothing short of a disaster – a commercial disaster and a creative disaster. Earlier this year, Steven Spielberg predicted the collapse of the megabudget movie system. Bombs like The Lone Ranger or Pacific Rim...
Read moreThe Miller’s Tale in #140
In September 1463, William of Ilkeston was walking on the road to the yearly fair (or Faire) in Nottingham, England. Trade fairs were a fairly new invention of the Middle Ages (or as it was then called, Modern...
Read moreIs It Too Late for Yahoo?
My friend Mark Bittman just sent me a fascinating profile of Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s new CEO. She certainly is impressive and clearly very smart. The real question is, can she save Yahoo. The very fact that you have...
Read moreWhere Did All The Farmers Go?
Sometimes you get a confluence of things you read that make give you a new insight into the way things work. I am reading Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris’ excellent biography of Teddy Roosevelt. Then, this morning, I read...
Read moreBetter Late Than Never Dept.
is anyone listening? Like two punch-drunk fighters in the final rounds of The Thrilla in Manhattan, Newsweek and Time Magazine have been slugging it out for years to determine who as the best news weekly magazine....
Read moreWhy Is Cable News Such A Cesspool of Idiocracy?
I didn’t write that… (but I don’d disagree) It was written by Dave Winer ( who has been blogging since 1994 and say she is the first blogger). Today, in excoriating Cable News, Dave wrote: In the last couple...
Read moreWhat Jeff Bezos Could Do With The Washington Post
The journalism world was astonished that Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos had purchased The Washington Post. Astonished… and worried. Now, the question loomed: What would Bezos do with the paper?” Roy Greenslade, writing in The Guardian, thought...
Read moreWe Kick Off Guardian Media Academy in London – Day 1
Until last month most Americans had never heard to The Guardian. Today, after the Snowden Affair, pretty much everyone in America, and indeed the world, now knows that The Guardian is one of the world’s best newsapers,(if not the very best)....
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