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.

How Mary Kay Ash Saved the World

She understood the web before there was a web…. There are a hundred million web sites. Almost none of them make money. That is the Gordian Knot of the 21st Century. Until we solve that one, we are nowhere....

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Determined Divas

Richard Avedon’s photography translated to videography… Most video is pretty terrible. Because video cameras for so long were big and bulky, they were put on tripods and used simply to capture ‘reality’, such as it was. The merging of...

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@AOL

New logo… new company…. In the mid 90’s I was living in Philadelphia starting Video News International. VNI was bought by The New York Times and we had to move to NY.  I owned a small house in Philly...

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Now Everyone Is a Journalist

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/8079409[/vimeo] Interviewed on Brian Lehrer’s TV show in NY last week. Many thanks to producer Marty Goldensohn.

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AOL Goes VJ

Today, we began training AOL journalists and producers to create their own online video content using small cameras and laptop edits. Sound familiar? It should. AOL is filled with bright, aggressive, creative people eager to create content for their...

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Gresham’s Law and The Online World

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7904954[/vimeo] Sir Thomas Gresham was the Warren Buffett of the 16th Century. Financial advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, he created the first notion of debt financing, which allowed Britain to build the largest navy in the world, and ultimately...

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Some Really Impressive Editing

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo[/youtube] Lasse Gjertsen is a 25-year old Norwegian videographer who created this incredibly creative video. He doesn’t play either piano or drums. It’s all done in the edits. Fantastic work. Gjertsen has been approached by several commercial makers, but...

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Here Comes Everybody – Part 2

Today is Day 2 of the Travel Channel Academy in DC. We’re at Travel Channel HQ, and Travel Channel’s CEO Jonathan Sichel addressed the group to explain how important and central the VJ ‘army’ is the Travel Channel’s future...

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Look Out! Here Comes Everybody….*

Which way to iReport? Last night I was a guest on Brian Lehrer’s TV show. OK, I only had 20 minutes of the hour. (I had to share it with some guy who had done four tours of duty...

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PBS Jumps Headlong Into 1982

And now.. the late news…. Facebook is a great tool for finding old friends with whom you have lost touch. Recently, I friended Marty Goldensohn. Marty is, among many other things, Brian Lehrer’s producer. (Brian Lehrer for those outside...

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