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.

KRON/4, The VJ & Time Has Caught Up, finally

Here’s a total reprint from today’s SF Public Press When we did KRON/4 we were called everything from a pig to a dog. But we were right then. And we are right now. Here’s my favorite quote: This model...

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It’s Graduation Week

Thank God… This week we are at my nephew’s graduation from Washington University in St. Louis. It’s graduation time all over the country, and thousands of parents and families now have the rare priviledge of sitting in a big...

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High Flier in the DSLR Niche

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oif7wrrLZBI[/youtube] [youtube]http://youtu.be/oif7wrrLZBI[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oif7wrrLZBI&feature=email[/youtube] Do you like this? buckle up Like video above? Me too. It was done  with a DSLR camera. Note the nice shallow depth of field! Destinationluxury. A video company that has decided to focus on the...

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Better Late Than Never Dept.

All screens are pretty much the same. In 1994, The New York Times bought a videojournalism business I had founded called VNI, Video News International. I had equipped 100 journalists around the world with Hi-8 (this was a long timea...

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Curation vs. Creation

Down the drain…. Yesterday, I got sucked into a twitter discussion (if such a think is possible) with Shira Lazar, the new host of CBS’s What’s Trending, Steve Rosenbaum, author of Curation Nation and a few others after I...

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Let’s Talk About What We’re Already Talking About….

[youtube]http://youtu.be/GSunqVN84vQ[/youtube] And now.. even more of the same…. The web is the place where you never have to meet an opinion you don’t agree with…. One of the great things about a book or a newspaper is that you...

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How To Write A Script Without Any Paper

It’s in here.. somewhere. If you are like most people, you go out and shoot the elements of your film or video. Then you come back and sit down for the tedious task of video editing or film editing....

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We Are Getting Dumber and Dumber (are you still with me?)

still famous… In the future, Andy Warhol said in the 60s, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Truer words were never spoken. But now, 15 minutes of fame is a lifetime. It’s more like 15 seconds. Are you...

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How To Interview People In The Digital Age

That’s a mighty big camera you got there Mr. TV Reporter! Television is an industry wracked by anxiety. (This could possibly explain WEtv’s decision to commission a season of Cupcake Sisters, but more on that another time) Today, we’re...

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Parade Magazine Bootcamp with iMovie11

The staff at Parade Magazine start their lessons in iMovie A few days ago I wrote ‘will iMovie replace Final Cut’? It was something of a specious question, but there is no question that iMovie 11 is a remarkably...

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