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.
Haiti-Here Come the Stereotypes
Can you spot the difference between the ‘looter’ and the ‘finder’?* All hell is breaking loose in Haiti. The earthquake was just the beginning. As David Brooks pointed out in The New York Times this morning: This is not...
Read moreThe Media Tragedy from Haiti – Live!
Now…this! I woke up this morning and turned on the Today Show. I wanted to see the latest news from Haiti. The devastation is mind-boggling. Perhaps as many as 500,000 dead. So I tuned in to NBC to see...
Read moreWe Open in South Africa
Beats Chevy Chase…. We are delighted to announce that in partnership with our friends in South Africa, The Media Academy, we are going to be offering a 1-day intensive bootcamp in digital story telling. We first met Jonathan Berman...
Read moreHow To Find Video Work in this Economy
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/7906381[/vimeo] What they don’t teach you in school… My nephew Adam is looking for a job. But he’s going to job fairs and trying to schnur work off of friends of his parents. Big mistake. But talking to him,...
Read moreThe World’s Greatest Filmmaking Course
Getting the wide shot… Next month we will depart with around 40 participants on what I think will be the world’s greatest filmmaking and video course ever. Or at least that is how I see it. We’re running our...
Read moreMy Own Gosford Park
The remnants of Empire… Fire Sale! We are looking to buy a country home. Originally, we were looking in the Hamptons, on Long Island, along with everyone else from Manhattan. But of late we have started looking in the...
Read moreWhat is a Citizen Journalist?
Running the BBC courses on the beach at Newcastle-on-Tyne Last month, Dirck Halstead ran a provocative piece in his Digitaljouranlist.org asking whether we should abolish the term ‘Citizen Journalist’. This fired off the predictable howl-around, including a thread in...
Read moreIs Reality TV the Solution to Terrorism?
Every media outlet in the world… On October 4, 2003, Hanadi Jaradat, a 29-year old female lawyer, strapped explosives onto herself, walked into Maxim Restaurant in Haifa, Israel and blew herself up. Jaradat was not out to attack the...
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