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.
What’s Wrong With Journalism
Secretive and unhelpful. But scientist in Climategate storm STILL gets his job back VS. Climategate scientists cleared of manipulating data on global warming Same story Two different headlines. In fact, two totally different stories. The first headline is from...
Read moreBBC Approves Canon XF300
Professional just got a whole lot less expensive Many thanks to Kevin Johnson at b-roll.net for this update The BBC, the premier quality broadcaster in the world just released its new production guidelines for 2010. Among the many requirements...
Read moreEntrepreneurial Journalism -How To Make It Work
You can have one of these…if you want it… Yesterday we responded to Ken Kobre’s question about whether a journalist has to be an entrepreneur in the future. This in response to Adam Westbrook‘s new book. Ken, (being in...
Read moreEntrepreneurial Journalism..do we even have to ask?
hung over, crap car, crap apartment… and this is a role model? Ken Kobre, who I admire a lot, is asking the question on his blog: ‘Now you have to be an entrepreneur too’ Kobre’s question is derivative of...
Read moreAn Interesting (and short) History of LCD Screens
It took two hands to tell the time Sitting at home today watching the World Cup on a 54″ high def flat screen monitor that hangs on the wall in my living room, and writing on an Apple laptop...
Read moreHow To ‘Write’ A Script without ‘Writing’
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/13038638[/vimeo] Nothing is crazier, or more destructive, to the filmmaking and video process than the idea that you acquire in video, then translate that video to ‘text’ – log notes, transcripts, timecode notes, a written script, then you translate...
Read moreLara Logan Makes The Case for Citizen Journalists
Ed Murrow does the cheesecake shot in Korea… Over the last 3 days Apple sold 1.7 million iPhone 4s. That means that, in effect, there are now 1.7 million more video camera/edit software/upload units in the world than there...
Read moreWhen Corporate Becomes Commonplace
Can you hear me now? In 1843, Samuel FB Morse transmitted his famous ‘what hath God wrought’ on a telegraph wire. In doing so, he kicked off the start of an electronics/communication revolution that we are still experiencing daily....
Read moreTaxi Gourmet TV
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Eg6d4Of3Y&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Layne Mosler – taxi driver, TV star… Layne Mosler drives a NY City taxi. She also has a good eye for where to eat. And she has a video camera. This is a good combination. Mosler understands that...
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