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.
Calling All “Moral Journalists”
Self-appointed Arbiter of Morality… (thank God it’s not fashion or hairstyles). Michigan State Senator Bruce Patterson (above) has introduced legislation to register journalists in Michigan to make sure they’re of ‘good moral character’. Patterson’s bill, if enacted, would allow...
Read moreWhy Video On The Web Is Different
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX3q2eFfunQ[/youtube] Cisco CEO John Chambers on Healthcare Did you look at the video above? It’s John Chambers, CEO of Cisco. He is no dope. And what he has to say is both intelligent and important. Did you watch the...
Read moreWhat iPads Can Do For Print
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/10207926[/vimeo] games.. with content Pretty much everyone says iPads will prove the salvation of newspapers and magazines. Well, maybe. When the web first came along, newspapers saw the web as a place to distribute their newspapers, but online. What...
Read moreCisco CEO says All Video
Cisco CEO John Chambers John T Chambers is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Cisco Systems, one of the largest and most powerful technology companies in the world. Last year’s revenues topped $40 billion. Yesterday,in a rather...
Read moreArrested: Driving While Black
Don’t move! This is Bradley Nesbitt. Great guy. Good friend. Talented filmmaker. He has been working for us for the past four years – as a VJ in our Fios1 station in DC, reporting and producing; and as a...
Read moreGovernment Work
Today we are working with GSA.gov, the Government Services Administration in Washington, DC. Our room is filled with representatives from the US Dept of Defense, the VA and the Army Corps of Engineers, amongst others. The US Government is...
Read morePimp My Series
And now, a word from our sponsors.. I used to think that NBC’s Today Show was a news show. I was wrong. It turns out it’s a reality show called Pimp My Series. Should be on TLC. This morning,...
Read morePutting Social Media To Work
Ft. Peck Dam, the first cover of LIFE Magazine, by Margaret Bourke White In 1936, when Henry R. Luce launched LIFE Magazine, the world’s first ‘picture’ magazine, it was the depths of the Great Depression. Luce imagined that he...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy DC
Final screening this evening for 44 more potential Travel Journalists.
Read moreHenry Luce ‘got’ the Web before There Was a Web
At Time Inc., Man of the Year every day I am reading The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century by Alan Brinkley. It’s the story of Henry Luce, who was once a household name in the US, but...
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