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.
This Day in History
The iPhone of its day… It was small, it was electronic, you could hold it in the palm of your hand. It allowed you to be connected to anyone else, anywhere in the world instantly. It had however only...
Read moreBritain Plunges Headlong Into 1960
Who looked better? Fifty years ago, politics in the US changed forever. Nixon and Kennedy debated live on TV. Television was then a relatively new medium, but by 1960 it had penetrated most American households and most American lives. ...
Read moreFlying High With Yaroslav Kofman
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiydUnzTyEY[/youtube] Not bad for a first client… For those of you who took the Travel Channel Academy in Santa Barbara or Los Angeles, or who were in the Radio Free Europe bootcamps in Prague, Yaroslav Kofman will be a...
Read moreWEtv Film Academy
Lisa explains where to shoot Today we begin our pilot WEtv Film Academy project with WEtv. It’s a new partner and a new location for us – we’re at their HQ just across the street from Penn Station in...
Read moreA 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...
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