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.
A Travel Channel Academy Success Story
From cop who watches TV to TV cop… About a year ago, Jay Russell, a former South Carolina State Trooper appeared at one of our Travel Channel Academy classes in NY. He was the kind of State Trooper who...
Read moreSupreme Ignorance
Say it ain’t so… Net neutrality? File sharing? Privacy? The limits of copyright in a digital world? And lots more. New technologies tend to move faster than the law, which causes all sorts of conflicts. Fortunately, we have the...
Read moreNPR Video – A Critique
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIz2loDW1jw[/youtube] some good and some not so good NPR is getting into the video business. Like everyone else. Above, one of their stories. The shooting is excellent (with the possible exception of that rather weird top of the head...
Read moreWEtv Academy – Last Chance To Register
Last chance to take control of your life… at least in video.. For three years now we have been running the Travel Channel Academy, empowering people to tell their own travel stories and share them with the world, and...
Read moreThe Curious Case of Josh Wolf
photo credit: Steve Rhodes http://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/131920107/ The definitive citizen journalist We first met Josh Wolf many years ago in San Francisco when we were setting up Current TV. We were looking for ‘volunteers’ for this radical new idea and Wolf...
Read moreWho Is Going To Cover The News?
Wikileaks breaks a story on Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) censorship. NYU prof Clay Shirky does not blog often, but when he does it is required reading. Shirky makes the point that the Gutenberg analogy is easy. It’s...
Read moreJournalism and Volcanoes
A really big news day In 79AD, a really big news story hit the Roman Empire. Mt. Vesuvius, an active volcano in Italy erupted and destroyed the cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii. The news story, however, did not make...
Read moreHere Is What Journalism Should Sound Like
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Eric Whitacre is a 39 year old avant-garde composer and music conductor. He is also a man who has provided us with a model of how journalism in the 21st Century can work. Without meaning to. The piece...
Read moreA Model for a New Journalism
Harness the power that is already out there. New technologies are a bitch. They’re a bitch because you can’t argue with them – or even have a rational discussion. When automobiles were invented at the turn of the century,...
Read moreDSLR Cameras Crack The High End Barrier
Most popular on Fox… except for American Idol… I like House. My favorite episode is the one where the patient with the rare disease comes in with a wide range of symptoms. No one can figure it out. They...
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