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.

Stewart and Me

Stewart Pittman, one of the most literate and articulate lensmen in the business has a daily blog that I like a lot.  You can link it on the right. Today, he posts on his visit to the News Museum,...

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The Next Frontier

This was once the cutting edge ... A few years ago, a friend of mine was hired to make an ad for M&Ms. The budget was a mind-shattering $3million for a 30-second spot. It got me to thinking.

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America Loves A Good Story

So cute…. later, it will eat you. I am watching the Today Show this morning from the Embassy Suites (don’t ask) in Chevy Chase, Md. The economy would seem to be melting down and Wall Street is dissolving, but...

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Travel Channel Goes to School

This week, we are down at the Travel Channel in Chevy Chase running a Travel Channel Academy, except we are running it for The Travel Channel. Travel Channel President and CEO Pat Younge has decreed that every employee of...

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Will It Fly?

Could we charge extra for baggage? I am sitting in the conference room of a giant publishing company that we have been working with for some time. They understand the concept of video on the web, and of webcasting...

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Your Next Employer

[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-vI6dvHhlY&hl=en&fs=1] This lovely film – shot, edited, written and produced by one of our favorite and most talented VJs Francisco Aliwalas (remember Bikin Car Wash for the NY Post?), was commissioned by neither a tv network nor a newspaper....

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Pulitzer & Youtube offer $10,000 Prize for Citizen Journalism

[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQn8pcZ64MI&hl=en&fs=1] For the fifth year, we are offering our €10,000 prize for the best VJ piece through our DNA2009 conference (Brussels, March 4-5). Now Youtube (which has a LOT more money than we do!!!) in partnership with Pulitzer is...

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Images from TCA NY

Travel Channel President Pat Younge addresses the group Mrs Rosenblum explains how to Learn Shoot and Earn

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Travel Channel Academy New York

Left the Leica home so I shot it with the mac A mere 8 hours after landing in NY, we started a new Travel Channel Academy class in New York. Yesterday, Pat Younge, President and GM for The Travel...

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Report from MediaOn

não falo português Last night I gave the keynote address to open MediaOn 2008 in Sao Paolo, Brazil. The conference was sponsored by Itau Cultural. It’s a gathering of broadcasters, newspapers and online journalists from all across Latin America....

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