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.
The Library of Youtube
Yeah…lemme see American Idol from last week…. In 1988 I left my job as a producer at CBS News to go to Gaza with a small video camera and start shooting my own stories. I spent a month in...
Read moreTed Turner and Me, Part II
Pat Mitchell, Dr. Denis Mukwege, Elizabeth Dewberry, Ted Turner OK By popular demand, the continuation of the Ted Turner story. So at the end of the meeting in New York, Ted turned to me and said, ‘You go down...
Read moreTed Turner and Me
You want your ten minutes? Most people spend their lives thinking about or talking about what they are going to do, but few actually do anything. This is because no one ever taught them what to do. When we...
Read moreLessons From The Industrial Revolution
It was the Google of its day… Yesterday, the FT carried a very sobering article about the end of the Middle Class in America. It profiled several formerly Middle Class working families, all of whom are seeing both their...
Read moreAmusing Ourselves to Death*
ha ha ha… all very amusing… When I was growing up there were two books that provided alternative views of what the future might look like. One was 1984, by George Orwell, a totalitarian view of a world run...
Read moreTom Guilmette Demos Some Amazine SloMo Video
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/13596724[/vimeo] I found this through FStoppers.com, which is a new site to me, but very interesting. That led me to Tom Guilmette‘s site. Totally cool Check out what he does with some very hi tech slo mo video gear....
Read moreWhat Is Real?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clnozSXyF4k[/youtube] Our good friend Pat Younge, former head of The Travel Channel and now Chief Creative Officer at The BBC was our houseguest for the past two days. Pat is always interesting, and he showed us the clip above...
Read moreWe Launch Guardian Media Academy
After more than a year of negotiations, we are delighted to announce the launch of The Guardian Media Academy. We have partnered with The Guardian, one of the most prestigious media organizations in the world to offer a series...
Read moreModern Journalism?
Modern art – Bathers by a river by Henri Matisse 1910 Yesterday we went to see the new Matisse exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in NY. (As we live on top of the museum, this was not...
Read moreMy iPhone4 So Far….
So far, so good… I have been a lifetime proponent of Apple products. I was editing on Final Cut 1.2 for air. I still have an eMac downstairs.. somewhere. And through the various Academy projects, we own about 60...
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