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.

Conan Trashes FCP X

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USA TODAY Video Academy – Day 1 in NY

first day of class Today we launch our first pilot session of the USA 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...

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Bagel 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,...

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Next 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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Is Journalism Worth More Than Pornography?

Once hidden under the bed.. now a click away for free A long time ago (before I married Lisa!), I had a meeting with Nick Guccione, the son of Bob Guccione, founder of Penthouse Magazine. For those of you younger...

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Where The Video Jobs Are – or soon will be

I am going back to blackberry as soon as my contract expires. The Guardian is, in my opinion, the best newspaper in the world. This is, of course, only my opinion, (and has nothing to do with our partnership...

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The $29 HD Video Camera

Now the shrink wrap costs more than the camera… In 1989 I was living in Stockholm, working for the Swedish billionaire Jan Stenbeck, who was starting the first commercial TV network in Scandinavia. Stenbeck wanted to produce a Swedish...

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Airline Pilot’s Career in Travel Video Takes Off

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8Hqqt4lgDc&feature=player_embedded#at=24[/youtube] flying high Delta Airlines Captain John Roberts is an NYVS member and a graduate of the Travel Channel Academy. Who better to create travel videos than an airline pilot.  You spend your life seeing the world! Now, Captain Roberts...

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VJ 2.0

I’m late for the meeting on the 23rd floor Youtube now houses a mind-blowing 28 billion videos. At an average of 2 minutes per video (and that’s probably low), Youtube houses 56 billion minutes of video content. That would...

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US Soldier Takes Down Delta Airlines With Camcorder

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrv25zaJuP4[/youtube] Delta Airlines is a multi-billion dollar company. The fly people all over the world. It’s an incredibly complex and demanding business. It would be hard to get a company of this size to change their business practices at...

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