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.
Vaughan Smith, Videojournalist
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEDRM6l0SKs[/youtube] Lots of us dream of running off to Afghanistan with a small video camera. Vaughan Smith actually did it – and continues to do so. He has just returned from Afghanistan where he was embedded with The Grenadier...
Read moreYou Push The Button
Kodak….. a good idea at the time In 1888 George Eastman launched Kodak with the motto “You push the button, we do the rest”. Although photography had been around for a while, it was, until Eastman, an expensive and...
Read moreHow To Make Better Home Videos
Trying to figure something out… For the past week we have been running TCA at Sea, in partnership with Crystal Cruises. As I write this we’re off the coast of Mozambique, headed north to Zanzibar, our next port of...
Read moreWe Launch WEtv Film Academy
Empowering women with film, video and TV Two and a half years ago we launched the Travel Channel Academy. No one knew if it would work. No one had even heard of such a crazy idea. Teach and empower...
Read moreSouth Africa – Still Crazy After All These Years
Khayelitsha, a Township in Cape Town. 2 million people live here… Preparing for the World Cup Games, South Africa is doing it’s best to put on a good face. But it still remains the ultimate weird place. First, television...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy at Sea
There’s a Great White around here somewhere… I am filing this from the Crystal Serenity, a top of the line luxury cruise ship, and we’re now just rounding the Cape of Good Hope off South Africa on our way...
Read moreWhen Toasters Attack
It’s Toaster Week on Discovery Channel Yesterday we went to the aquarium in Cape Town, South Africa. The aquarium is great, lots of interesting stuff, but without a doubt, the number one draw is the Shark Tank. It is...
Read moreToo Much of a Good Thing
The Craigslist of its day…. On December 27, 1530, Francisco Pizarro set out with 27 horses and 180 men for South America. Two years later, he conquered the 800 year old Inca Empire, population 12 million or so. A...
Read moreGreetings From South Africa
Cape Town – so far, so good… Late last night, after an almost endless flight, we arrived in Cape Town, South Africa. We’re here to do a Videojournalism seminar with the Media Academy here . We met them a...
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