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.
Why I Won’t Fly American Airlines
Look out, she’s got a ruler! OK Today’s blog was going to be about the ‘grammar of video’. But not after yesterday’s experience with American Airlines. We were flying from St. Kitts to Miami, and then on to NY,...
Read moreJanet Street Porter Does Not Get It
Who? For Americans, the name Janet Street Porter does not mean a thing. But in the UK she has been very well known as one of those people perpetually on the cutting edge of the media revolution. Which is...
Read moreOut Of The Picture
Definitely don’t move… Margaret Bourke-White was on the cutting edge of a lot of change. She was a woman photographer when there were almost none. She was a war correspondent, photog for Life Magazine, member of Magnum. She traveled...
Read moreWhy Women Will Dominate The Media Future
Books that re-wire your brain In yesterday’s New York Times, columnist Nick Kristof ran a piece, “The Boys Have Fallen Behind“. The focus of Krisofs’ piece was that across the boards, with the exception of math, there is an...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy Sunday
We’re all here at Travel Channel HQ in Chevy Chase, Md. for the final day of our 4-day intensive bootcamp. We’ll be screening at 3pm. The usual public praise/public humiliation! 🙂 Meanwhile, everyone hard at work
Read moreMy Life on B-roll.net
Television professionals… and then again….a few others… About 7 years ago, I got an email from a professional cameraman who identified himself as ‘Ivan’ He asked if it was true that I was training producers and journalists to shoot...
Read moreDSLR vs. Film
I think you’re going to like this picture… Since video first appeared there was no question that film was vastly superior. When video moved into newsrooms with the first big RCA cameras, conventional cameramen who had spent their lives...
Read moreNew York Timezzzzzzzzzzz…….
Pay attention.. this is important stuff.. no, really. Pay attention.. hey you, wake up! So the New York Times has launched TimesCast, its daily ‘live from the newsroom’ webcast. Well, this is only about two years behind The Newark...
Read moreAfter The Fall – Souffle?
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/10354055[/vimeo] Take a look at this.. no kidding.. Here’s how you start a business. You get an idea. Then you go to some smart rich guys. Nick Nicholas was a smart rich guy. He was then the Chairman and...
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