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 Law and Shooting in Public Places

credit: Marc Vallee, photojournalist. The explosion of digital cameras in the hands of ‘amateurs’, particularly since the advent of HD video in cell phones has caused a lot of changes, and a lot of consternation – particularly among law...

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16 Year in Prison for Posting This Video

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7PC9cZEWCQ&NR=1[/youtube] OK. Watch the video above. It was shot by Anthony Graber using a helmet cam while he rode on his motorcycle. Nothing happens for the first 3 minutes, but stick with it. With about :15 to go, you’ll...

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The Very Strange World of The New York Times

hello Bob? Hello? Are you there? Hello Bob? OK So on Sunday I read Bob Herbert’s column in The New York Times, and I posted a response. It was the normal, predictable kvetch about how people on blackberries and...

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The Game Changer

Cut. Print it. We are driven by our tools much more than we like to think we are. We like to think that we use the tools. In reality, it is the tools that shape us. Bob Herbert ran...

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The Ubiquity of Video

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSCfbSKSxMc&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube] Making video content creation second nature for every little girl in America. From her arrival in America in 1959, Barbie has been a curious harbinger of trends. With more than a billion Barbie Dolls sold, she is both...

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Radio Free Europe in Prague

Addressing the Directors of RFE/RL This week we are in Prague, running an intensive video bootcamp for the journalists at Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty. This is the third year we have come here to run bootcamps, and the...

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The Canon of Journalism

Here is my latest Bull on Journalism… The Missouri School of Journalism yesterday issued a press release entitled ” Citizen Journalism vs. Legacy News: The Battle for News Supremacy I like this ‘battle’ notion because it plays right into...

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How We’re Going to Work

OK. You’ll be working right here for the next 40 years… Last week, on the heels of reading The Most Powerful Idea in the World by William Rosen, I paid a visit to Richard Arkwright’s first factory in Derbyshire,...

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The Shape of Things To Come

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaptVt2Oruo[/youtube] and a little child shall lead them… The video above was sent to me yesterday by Pat Younge, Chief Creative Officer at The BBC. It wasn’t done by anyone at The BBC. It was done by Pat’s 14-year...

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