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.
Hurricane Sandy – Why Is Local News So…..Predictable
I found this on YouTube and I like it. It’s a great parody of local TV news. It could be real. Yesterday, like all New Yorkers, we were glued to our TV sets watching local TV news coverage of...
Read moreClark Kent Quits Daily Planet – The Definitive End of Newspapers
Andrew Sullivan, over at The Daily Beast is reporting that iconic newspaper reporter Clark Kent (aka Superman) is quitting his gig at The Daily Planet newspaper to start his own blog. If this doesn’t mark the definitive end of...
Read moreWhat The Soon To Be Dead Newsweek Could Learn from HSN
On Friday I was down in Tampa trying to sell my book, iPhone Millionaire, on the Home Shopping Network. Yesterday, Newsweek announced that they were terminating the print version of the magazine. What do these two things have to do...
Read moreHow Twitter is Wrecking The Elections… and more, probably
In 1985, Neil Postman published what for me would be one of the seminal books I ever read: Amusing Ourselves To Death I sitll think it’s required reading for anyone who wants to understand the media. Postman’s thesis was...
Read moreThe Commitments – Or, Why Most Documentaries Suck
This morning I got an IM from an NYVS member. He’s also a student at a film school in the UK and now he has to make a small documentary film for his class. He wrote to ask some...
Read moreWhat Future for Journalism? An Open Letter To Lee Bollinger
Dear President Bollinger, Like many alumni of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, I read with interest of Dean Nicholas Lemann’s departure, and that you would be heading up the search for a replacement. Hence, my letter...
Read moreJiro Dreams of Sushi
Last night we watched Jiro Dreams of Sushi, a documentary film produced by David Gelb. We watched the film on the recommendation of Brett Savaglio, our new Director of Social Media here at nyvs.com It was a good recommendation....
Read moreCan You Really Make A Living With A YouTube Channel?
* *that means you can make $23,000 a month if you own one of the most successful .1% of Youtube content partner channels OK. Everyone knows that television and video are going to migrate to the web. The...
Read moreNewspaper Video Goes Boldly Into The 1990s in 2012
Now, don’t get me wrong. I like the Nieman Journalism Lab. I respect them. So this is not about them. This is about a piece Bryan Murley just sent me in my email. It is entitled: It’s all about...
Read moreYouTube Adds 50 Channels – Is This Really What We Need?
The New York Times reports today that YouTube is going to add another 50 channels to the 100 video channels it already has. While this makes YouTube look more and more like Time/Warner Cable Service instead of the ecclectic...
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