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.

Darwinian Journalism

The book that changed the world…. Journalism is a living species. And like any living species, it feeds.  So long as it can feed, it survives. Journalism’s food is audience – readers or viewers. The pond was once a...

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The Washington Post Screws It Up

Those were the days…. and they were a long time ago… The Washington Post announced yesterday that they were firing VJs Pierre Kattar and Travis Fox. Matthew Ingram blogs that this is really about a fight between the paper...

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1,000 Flipcams in Newark

Click Here To Link To Knight Foundation Project [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ml21ZWGqCg[/youtube] As you may recall, some time ago I had an idea to try and place 1,000 flipcams in Gaza. While I am still working on that one, (which is a...

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Like Magic

He saw the future before it happened.. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic -Arthur C. Clarke “Profiles of the Future” 1961 Arthur C. Clarke, who died last March was a science fiction author, but also a great...

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We’re Expanding NYVS Content

Catherine Chao explains how to sell yourself and your work We launched the beta-test version of New York Video School about a month ago, but we’re already seeing where we can expand the content. These last two days we’ve...

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Video Social Networks

Bradley Nesbitt, TCA instructor and FiOS1 VJ.. also very social So now Facebook is going to video. And in only one month they have rocketed to the number three spot for video streaming and number two slot for unique...

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Here Comes Facebook – Video

What’s on? Facebook, the killer online social networking site announced yesterday that they were now the number 3 video streaming site on the web, with no signs of turning back. While Youtube is still the giant online source, with...

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Coming To A Newsstand Near You

Quick… get me a dozen copies! Yes, I have finally made the cover of a magazine. No, it’s not the first time.  That was with TV Broadcast, but this time I think the message comes across loud and clear....

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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

“Do you read your newspapers online, or do you still buy the paper kind?” Next weekend we are offering an advanced shooting course with TCA in DC. I wanted to show some examples of the grammar of visual storytelling....

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Left Brain, Right Brain and Video

Whose side are you on? My old friend, the late Dr. Leonard Shlain was both a highly accomplished surgeon and an author. He wrote a book that had a lasting influence on my life , The Alphabet vs. The...

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