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.
Oxford Health Care is Screwing Me
I am currently in perfect health. I have no pre-existing conditions. I have never had a major health problem, or hardly a minor one for that matter. My only current health issue is reflux. Probably from tension. So I...
Read moreToward a Very Different Economy
To do this you needed money Niall Ferguson has written a very interesting book, The Ascent of Money. Reading it made me wonder if perhaps we are not now entering a transitive phase in the value of money. This...
Read moreSpecial Thanksgiving Thanks to Zack Wilson
Webmaster and sensai As you have probably noticed, we have suffered our worst ‘hack attack’ since we started this. I don’t know by whom… But I know that Zack Wilson, our online genius spent the entire Thanksgiving vacation solving...
Read moreWe Train The UN To Tell Their Own Stories to the World
From here off to Kisangani This week we are with the United Nations in Geneva. Or more specifically with UNHCR, or the UN High Commisioner on Refugees. That’s the branch of the UN that deals with refugee crises all...
Read moreThis Is Why Magazines Are Going Broke
Lewis Dvorkin Forbes Magazine, which used to bill itself ‘Capitalist Tool’ now moves boldly and bravely headlong into 2003. Unfortunately for Forbes this is 2010. Nearly 11. But Lewis Dvorkin’s recent column in Forbes this week, lays out in...
Read moreTrainspotting
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJmbxs2DeqY[/youtube] Nice work by Clifford Gow Videographer Clifford Gow took the video bootcamp filmmaking course in Northern Ireland. This is the short film he shot during the trainsing session. As you can see, he’s found 3 great characters in...
Read moreOne Day Shooting Course At Guardian Media Academy
You will be leaving the building in a few minutes… This week we start our partnership with The Guardian, what is, in my opinion, the best newspaper in the world. They also employ my good friend Gary Younge as...
Read moreRocco and Me
Sir Rocco Forte My old friend and mentor Carl Spielvogel told me ‘always go to the CEO. Anything else is a waste of time”. Last week we were in Manchester, England, working with The BBC. We booked into the...
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