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.
How Video Can Save Lives
Just one of 20,000 Somali refugees who have arrived in Kenya this week… The worst drought in 60 years in the Horn of Africa has sparked a severe food crisis and high malnutrition rates, with parts of Kenya and...
Read moreTeaching the UN to Shoot: Why Hope CNN Shows Up?
We are here in Geneva this week training Public Information Officers for the UN who work for UNHCR – the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. These people have come to Geneva from all over the world – Congo...
Read moreFCP-X: Our First Lesson
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flc5TQ2pfv4[/youtube] and now it begins… Our Introduction to Final Cut Pro X on NYVS.Com Final Cut Pro X has been nothing but controversial Professionals across the blogosphere (and a few German dictators from the 1930s) have expressed their rising...
Read moreThe Day We Turned Our Backs On The Future – And Why
The high point of American civilization On July 20, 1969, American placed a man on the moon. It was the culmination not only of a decade of hard work and extraordinary engineering and courage, it was also the culmination...
Read moreWhy Is Travel TV (and video) So Bad? (when it could be so good?)
Grenada by Bob Krist Today we are wrapping up the USA TODAY Trave Video Academy USA TODAY is going to start building an online/mobile/tablet presence and a great deal of that is going to be video In this case, video about...
Read moreNY Post Goes VJ – Is Nat Geo Next?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LV6MtZIR8o[/youtube] The New York Post Around here we believe that the greatest career opportunities for video are in newspapers and magazines as they transit to iPads and mobile. iPads and mobile are, by definition, screens. And screens demand video...
Read moreConan Trashes FCP X
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Read moreUSA TODAY Video Academy – Day 1 in NY
first day of class Today we launch our first pilot session of the USAÂ TODAY Travel Video Academy USA TODAY is moving their content online and onto tablets and mobile. All of those devices are viewed on screens. And screens...
Read moreBagel Video – Needs a bit of work still…..
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_UvPYfbBw8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Cheddar bacon bagel? Oy! As businesses move to the web, the they need websites to draw in the traffic. And as the web is a screen first, whether it is on a computer, a tablet or a phone,...
Read moreNext Head on the Chopping Block? Sat Trucks
The satellite should be overhead in just a minute… Not so many years ago we were sitting on a ratty old couch in a windowless room in a satellite uplink center in Sidney, Australia. It was 3am. We were...
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