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.
Guardian Media Academy in London – day 2
We’re here in London running the Guardian Media Academy course! Having left 85 degree weather in NY, the cold, wind and rain of England was something of a surprise, but did not dampen (local news joke), the enthusiasm of...
Read moreGuardian Media Academy Starts Tuesday in London – still time!
Close up on the hands! OK We are back in England this morning. Cold. Rainy Wet Windy Yes, it’s the last day of summer here in the UK. Â But! Â The Met office promises better weather next week. And that’s...
Read moreThe Moment When The World of TV News Changed Forever
It’s all over the media and it could possibly spell the end of Romney’s run for the Presidency. A home-made video, shot on a phone. When we look back on this moment 10 years from now or so, I...
Read moreThe iPad As The Digital Tool for the 21st Century
Reprinted entirely from MediaLab/PBS and The Knight Foundation How to Ditch Big Cameras And Make Films (and Edit Them) with an iPad by Jon Vidar (Bio), September 7, 2012 Tagged: community, filmmaking, ipad, storiesfrom, time-lapse video,tiziano project, tripod, video The Tiziano Project recently launched our new platform...
Read moreWhen Twitter Drives The Plot
About a million years ago (in 2004, I think), we started to produce a new show for The Travel Channel. It was based on what was then a very radical idea – very. Using ‘the Internet’, we would allow...
Read moreLook Me In The Eye When You Say That
This comes to me from @veryfewwords, and many thanks Someone spent a lot (or relatively) of time and money making this video. But it just goes to show you how little things make a big difference. I don’t know...
Read moreThe Anti Islam Video and Why Gawker Doesn’t Get It – astonishingly
Truly – it sucks! Above, you can see the YouTube clip that has set much of the Islamic World ablaze and resulted in the tragic death of four American diplomats. I don’t want to get into the politics of...
Read moreCan the iPhone5 Change The TV News World?
From Apple’s new promotional video Today, Apple released the long-awaited iPhone5. It looks pretty good, at least on their video. Expectations are so strong on this one product that JP Morgan forecast that sales of the iPhone5 alone may boost...
Read moreOlloclip Lenses for the iPhone
Yesterday, Melissa Flemming from UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (the group we have been training to shoot their own video with an iPhone in world hot-spots) and her family dropped by our NY apartment. Her husband...
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