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.

1,000 Flipcams in Newark

Bathed in the sense of the place… Let’s give 1,000 flipcams to 1,000 people in Newark, New Jersey. Let’s teach them how to shoot and cut and tell their own stories. Then, let’s create a gigantic video wall in...

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Sue Norton Wins 3 Emmys

Hat trick at the Emmys last night Susan Norton will be familiar to anyone who has taken the Travel Channel Academy.   She’s the Executive Producer in charge of the Academy for the Travel Channel and who also runs...

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How Long Has This Been Going On?

Come on… you gotta do this in 2 minutes or less! Up until very recently if you wanted to listen to music at home, you had to have your own orchestra. or Chamber Music group.. or at least a...

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In My Spare Time….

Ernest Bujok on my floor When I was a student at Willams College in the ’70s, I was a double major in history and studio art. I write often about  history, but rarely about the studio art. I also...

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Smaller and smaller…..

come back in two years for the next photo In 1988 I went to Korea to cover the Olympics for CBS News. My brother-in-law Ted Savaglio was in charge of the CBS contingent, and as such, he the first...

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We All Live in Youtubia

Larry Page and Sergei Brin….ca. 1776 July 4, 1776 and Thomas Jefferson, with help from a few other folks, finishes up the Declaration of Independence. In the days when there was still a smattering of education in the United...

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Why Journalism Failed

key to survival A posting on b-roll.net and a conversation at lunch yesterday with Kevin Klose, former President of NPR and new Dean of the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland gave me food for...

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Travel Channel Academy VJ Hits It Big!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDjJnprA7ys[/youtube] Bradley Nesbitt, VJ for our Verizon station in DC and trainer for Travel Channel Academy courses makes a big hit with his ESPN video. We expect to see Bradly as a regular on ESPN in the near future....

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A Day at the Travel Channel Academy

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX2BjNIBfKw&feature=PlayList&p=9D2BD5EFA11953BD&index=0[/youtube] TCA Grad Mike Ungar’s story on what it is like to be a student at the TCA. This week’s students will relate.

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Travel Channel Academy DC

Back to school in September…. This morning we are kicking off a whole new Travel Channel Academy here in DC. On the heels of the Radio Free Europe session in Prague, (and starting with GSA.gov in DC in two...

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