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.
It’s Never Too Late
We will never surrender… On December 12th, I was listening to Scott Simon on NPR interviewing author Paul Johnson about his new biography of Winston Churchill. I immediately went to Amazon.com and ordered the book. Â A few days later...
Read moreShould News Take Place in the Public Place?
Everyone has a story to tell… The Knight Foundation has informed me that I have made it to the second round for the Knight News Challenge. My proposal is to hand out 1,000 flipcams in Newark, NJ and put...
Read moreRule Britannia
OK, now everyone… I am in England this week, and yesterday we had lunch with my in-laws at The ‘Club’. The Club used to demand that all men wear jackets and ties, and while that rule apparently has been...
Read morePeople Wall
3 hours on line for this I just received word from the Knight Foundation that my project, 1,000 Flipcams in Newark has made it to the final round for consideration. My idea is to give 1,000 random people who...
Read moreCompulsion
The author of my life… One of the truly great things about the Internet is that you can find people with whom you have lost contact over the years. Recently, I caught up with Mikael Levin, a friend from...
Read moreAddiction!
At what cost? I am reading Nial Ferguson’s excellent book Empire: The Rise and Demise of The British World Order. As the little island nation of St. Kitts & Nevis is one of my clients, I was astonished to...
Read moreA VJ’s Journey from Havana to Hilton
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7958469[/vimeo] PF Bentley was in our very first VNI VJ Bootcamp in Philadelphia in 1993. That was a long time ago! PF was then a photographer at Time Magazine. One of the best. He was the White House photographer...
Read moreA VJ Success Story
Tony Martin, on left Tony Martin. We met him at NYU. He took the Travel Channel bootcamp. He was selected to be one of the VJs on 5Takes. Then, we did not hear from him for some time. Until...
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