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.
Travel Channel Academy Results
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiGC–5Ax3w&feature=channel_page[/youtube] Al Vazquez, one of our students at the Travel Channel Academy produced this as his ‘final piece’. We screened it this evening, the fourth day of the 4-day course. As Al wrote on his evaluation form after the...
Read moreEvolution and Facebook
You forgot to plug me in Dave…. Dave…. Computers think really fast. And people think really fast. Computers convey information really fast. People, on the other hand, take a long time to explain something. So, it may be, that...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy @ Times Square
Travel Channel Academy HQ just up the street at 41st between 7th and 8th This week, we are once again running the Travel Channel Academy in New York. For more than 2 years, we have been partnering with The...
Read moreDid The Media Lose Vietnam?
Lt. General Donald E. Rosenblum at work…. Last week, at the height of the Cronkite memorabilia-fest, I watched, along with everyone else, as TV news ran the famous ‘we can no longer win the war in Vietnam’ clip over...
Read moreLessons from the NYVS
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vONorpVbLYo[/youtube] Francisco gives a lesson on how to make a Music Video On September 1, we are going to launch NY Video School, an online training academy for those who want to learn how to make a wide range...
Read moreChris Brown, Rhianna….and Richard Nixon
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4SD6oBvbKY&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjonbernstein.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F07%2F21%2Fwhat-chris-browns-youtube-apology-tells-us-about-new-media%2F&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] who needs TV? When 19 year old R&B singer Chris Brown was accused of beating his girlfriend Rhianna, he didn’t go on 60-Minutes looking for contrition. Bill Clinton and Hillary might have taken a chance with Mike Wallace...
Read moreShould Journalism Die?
And that’s the way it is… or at least as far as I know, that’s the way it is…. When I was a student at The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University (’83), we used manual typewriters. We...
Read moreIf We Landed a Man on the Moon Today….
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dClpox7qinI[/youtube] and a tip o’ the hat to Steve Safran for finding this one
Read moreArthur Sulzberger Jr. and George III
Where did they get their dry cleaning done? I have just finished David McCullough’s book 1776, which is a history of the first year of the War of the American Revolution. It’s a great read. What struck me througout...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy Grad Gets Own TV Series!
Student makes good Nearly a year ago, Jay Russell, a former South Carolina State Trooper took one of our Travel Channel Academy classes in NY. He ran a private drug dog search company; derived from his years in the...
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