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.
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...
Read moreWhere 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...
Read moreThe $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...
Read moreAirline 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...
Read moreUS 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...
Read moreOur Summer Interns @work
Summer interns Josh Stipanovich and Brett Savaglio at work in Jersey City This summer we have taken on two summer interns. In order to make sure that they actually learn something, I took them out in the field yesterday...
Read moreGoing Solo- Videojournalism in the 21st Century: a book
Someone has to fill the vacuum OK. The Oprah Winfrey Show is no more. And hence, neither is Oprah’s Book Club Thus, I feel it incumbent upon me to fill the intellectual vacuum left by the demise of this...
Read moreAs Magazines Transit to Tablets They’re Going To Need Video – Lots
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgPaeXaipD4[/youtube] Meredith’s John Zieser explains Parents Magazine on the tablet Meredith publishes a long list of magazines that you are probably intimately familiar with, from Better Homes and Gardens to Ladies Home Journal to Parents and beyond. Meredith, in...
Read moreFive Tips for Emerging Videojournalists and One Tip for Time Magazine
Here’s the link. Can’t embed. Trust me, worth a look at the Time Magazine Video. Andrew Barron, you were ahead of your time… I recently ran across a piece in a site called Innovative Interactivity (II) (I don’t know...
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