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.
Cutting Out The Middle Man
It only had one ap… I am reading a very interesting book, The Battery by Henry Schlesinger. It is as much the history of electricity as it is the history of the battery, for most electricity in the early...
Read moreThe Four Hour Long Commercial – Is This Journalism?
Hey, Lost Dogs, Hot Dogs… I gotta eat….. This morning, the Today Show took us on an exclusive tour of the new Harry Potter theme rides (and stores) at Universal Studios in Orlando. They sent down their best...
Read moreWhy I Didn’t Win The Knight News Challenge – And Other Complaints
OK. You know what? I don’t want to appear to be a sore loser. (unfair! unfair! unfair!) OK. Now that I got that out of my system, as I said, I don’t want to appear to be a sore...
Read moreFlash – This Just In!
Can you guys embed video? I am down at the US Government Run Telegraph Office filing my blog this morning. That would be the US Government Supported Telegraph Office. That would be the result of the US Government bail-out...
Read moreAny Idiot Can Have a Reality Show
Adventures in Sunderland So now it turns out that Laurence and Marianne Sunderland had cut a deal with Magnetic Entertainment in Los Angeles to produce a ‘reality show’ based on the Sunderland family and their compulsive desire to sail...
Read morePharmalot – A Model for the Future?
How a newspaper blog became profitable Ed Silverman (whose head is pictured above) was a graduate of NYU’s journalism school and then went to work for the Newark Star Ledger covering the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceuticals are a big business...
Read moreBread and Circus
\ A football match is not going to solve their problems… or change their lives… Yesterday was the England/USA game at the World Cup in South Africa, so naturally we were all tuned in. We hung the England flag...
Read moreBy What Right?
Jon Gosselin, reality TV star for 15 minutes a few years ago.. I think.. maybe… As I noted yesterday, there are now 5.8 billion video cameras in circulation on a planet with a population of 6.8 billion people. This...
Read moreJournalists as Entrepreneurs….or not….
it’s over… I like Alan Mutter and I always read his blog, Reflections of a Newsousaur. So yesterday, when my old J-School classmate and current professor at Stony Brook, Barbara Selvin emailed me and asked what I thought of...
Read moreThe Future is Mobile
The future in the palm of your hand Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel used to say “listen to the technology. The technology will tell you what to do”. Today, the technology to listen to is mobile. As of...
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