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.

Get Out Of The House.. Now!!!

Get out of the house now!!! Did you ever watch a horror movie. The Texas Chainsaw Killer kind of movie, where the young, good looking group of friends has their car break down in the middle of nowhere and...

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Back to The BBC

I spent five years training more then 750 journalists to be VJs at The BBC between 2000 and 2005. Now, five years later, we are back at The Beeb, running another pilot bootcamp. This time we are in Bristol...

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Making YouTube Pay

How do you make this pay? YouTube uploads an astonishing number of videos, more than 23 hours of video every minute. People also look at an astonishing number of videos – more than 1 billion views a day. As...

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Concentra Award Winners

Award winner Adam Ellick, NY Times Last week, in Antwerp, we awarded the Fifth Annual Concentra Award for Videojournalism. This year’s winner was Adam Ellick, a videojournalist for The New York Times. We liked Ellick’s work for a number...

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An Image Problem

schlepper Hollywood Reporter last week said that “TV viewing in the home is at an all-time high, averaging 5.13 hours per viewer per day during fourth-quarter 2009 and more than eight hours a day for the entire household…” More...

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Self Publishing Takes Off

You can’t get it on Amazon.com… yet… When future archaeologists begin to excavate our civilization they may come to believe that some tragic event befell our culture in the early 21st Century. That is because all historical records of...

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Cable Turns To Oatmeal

cover in olive oil and sea salt, preheat oven to 375 degrees… What’s in a name? Kentucky Fried Chicken spent a fortune to become KFC, mostly so they could get rid of 2/3rds of their name that had become...

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And Now… Google TV

Around here we have been having an internal discussion about changing the name of the company. Rosenblumtv.  It’s the TV part (though some would like to change the first part as well, I am currently opposing that move). TV...

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Concentra Prize Nominees Announced

Could you use $15,000? On May 6th, in Antwerp, we will award the Concentra Prize for Videojournalism. $15,000 for the best VJ piece in the world. Yesterday, Concentra, a Belgium based media company, announced the finalists. The Winning Hood...

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Good Bye Floppy Drive

My first computer was an NEC APCIII, the APC standing for Advanced Personal Computer. And for its time, which was 1983, it was advanced. It ran on floppy disks.  I had trays of them, each carefully marked.  Word Processing,...

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