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.
Impressionist Journalism
Live from the park… Georges Seurat… NPR New technologies drive new ideas….but it often isn’t a pretty.. or obvious process. The advent of photography toward the end of the 19th Century spelled the death knell for a generation of...
Read moreThe Power of a Blog Post
Not quite Dell… but it works… Jeff Jarvis begins his book What Would Google Do with an anecdote about a problem he had with a Dell computer. Getting no satisfaction from Dell, he blogged about it. Soon enough, a...
Read moreCharlie Parsons’ Movie
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrDBbPp8vHg&feature=channel_page[/youtube] Charlie Parsons took the TCA course last week in DC. He had never picked up a video camera or edited video before. Now, in all fairness, Charlie is the Executive Producer for the Tony Bourdain show for The...
Read moreVideo Revolution on Saturday in NY
You don’t often get a whole revolution in one day… On Saturday, Jeff Jarvis and I will conduct a one-day intensive seminar on The Video Revolution at the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of NY. The...
Read moreArt & Journalism
Shirt 1 – 36×48…. and for sale! There is an expression called ‘high tech-high touch’. It means that in a high-tech world, there is a naturall attraction to high touch, or non technical things. Like writing with a fountain...
Read moreBING-goes to Video
Why don’t you just Bing me? Yesterday at the All Things D conference Microsoft Chief Exec Steve Ballmer unveiled BING, their new search engine, and a competitor (in theory at least) to Google. Competitor to Google is no easy...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy DC
This week we are back in DC at Travel Channel HQ where we are minting another 40 Travel Channel Journalists. Among the group, Charlie Parsons, Head of Development for The Travel Channel. Hmmm….
Read moreWe Launch NY Video School…. soon
Coming soon We’ve been running video training seminars for more than 20 years, in one form or another. Until now, they were always in-person and hands-on. But for the past year, we have been building an online video/VJ training...
Read moreMass Media
Which one is the truth? An exchange of tweets yesterday with BurmaVJ among others got me thinking about journalism and the web. Not in the usual way, however. It made me think about a completely new kind of journalism…....
Read moreDeath To The Queen!
Off with her head! My friend Gary Younge writes in The Guardian yesterday that it is time to ‘ditch the Monarchy’. I don’t agree. The Monarchy serves a purpose, as any student of British history knows. The last time...
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