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.
Undefeated champion 1889-2012 Watching the Olympics here in the UK (where I get to see them in real time and not have to wait 6 hours for NBC to deign to let me see them), one cannot be struck...
Read moreYouTube Opens First Creator Space
YouTube In 2002, I opened a video bar/cafe on the Lower East Side in NY, just across the street from CBGB. It was a place anyone could come into, get cameras, access to editing, training and a cup of...
Read moreZimbabwe Beats Out NBC On Olympics Coverage
OK I am sitting in my apartment in New York and it is 6PM in NY and 11PM in London. The, so I am told, spectacular Olympics opening Ceremonies, directed by Danny Boyle are over. They were, so I...
Read moreWhy Oprah Failed In India
“Self Help is not a substitute for content” TV ‘personality’ Oprah Winfrey was in India last January and produced a multi-part series for her foundering cable channel. I have no idea what the budget for this thing ran, but...
Read moreWe Launch A New Network
Felipe Leite in the Canadian Rockies We have been silent for the past two weeks because we have been working on a very big project that will impact on everyone who makes video. Now, we are ready to go...
Read moreMind-Blowing comScores for Online Video
NY Times Mark Bittman makes video for the paper We’ve always said that the web mandates video. This was based on the pure logic that we see the web on screens and screens carry video, and well, people like...
Read moreHow iPhones Will Change Television News – if we’re lucky
This is Walter Kigali. He is with the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees. He was part of the training we just completed in Nairobi. Like all the other UN people we trained, he works in some of the...
Read moreEmpowering the United Nations To Report On Their Own
Yesterday, CNN suffered a journalistic disaster It reported that the Supreme Court had thrown out ObamaCare. Wrong! The ‘reporter’ who did this was Kate Bolduan The 2005 graduate of George Washington University who previously worked for a local TV...
Read moreAt Video Bootcamp in Nairobi with the UN
We are here in Nairobi with the United Nations training them to shoot and cut and upload their own video using an iPhone. The UN people here work with UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and they...
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