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.

More From India

Yesterday, I spent the day at the public laundry in Mumbai, Dhobi Ghat. Loving that M9. I was last in India in 1979, and in those days I was a 21-year old with a backpack. I was living in...

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Incredible India

Rooftop pool, Four Seasons, Mumbai We are in Mumbai, formerly Bombay, in India. Population 20 million or so. We are staying at the Four Seasons Hotel, in an all glass, floor to ceiling suite, on the 30th floor. Above...

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And Now It’s Official

Do you think they have enough cameras on that boat? In 1988 we introduced the concept of VJ Newsgathering in Norway at TV Bergen. In 1990 we did it with NY1 in New York for Time/Warner. In 1993 we...

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Why Network News is Dead

And that’s the way it is… The announcement by ABC News last week that they are going to cut 300-400 jobs, a full 20% of their news staff is only confirmation of what we predicted along time ago: That...

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Cafe Jew Town

Getting right to the point After 7 days as sea, we made the passage from Mombasa, Kenya to India and this morning, at 7am local time, made landfall in Cochin, India. Needless to say, after 7 days at sea,...

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Newark Star Ledger gets 7 Emmy Nominations!

Newsroom and TV studio… Yesterday, the Newark Star Ledger received an astonishing 7 Emmy Award nominations for its video work. These are local news Emmys, and this is the first time that newspapers have been allowed to participate. The...

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More on ABC’s VJ Flip

Dutch Public TV in 2004 is now ABC News in 2010….eventually all things come ABC News’ decision to embrace the VJ model is apparently going to go much deeper than we first thought. What appeared to be a mere...

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ABC News Goes VJ

finally… ABC News today announced major layoffs. 300-400 positions are going to be eliminated. Most interesting in the announcement today is the decision by David Westin that the network news organization is going to move toward VJ based newsgathering....

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A Word For National Geographic

Hey Steve, get that camera out of my face… I’m trying to watch American Idol…. SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE INDIAN OCEAN:  OK. We are now somewhere between Madagascar and India, somewhat closer to Madagascar. Because of the...

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Report from Travel Channel Academy@Sea

Two of our students head off for Mombasa ready to start filming…. When I was 21 and young and dumb I spent a year crossing Africa overland. I went across the Sahara Desert with the Toureg Bedouin then made...

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