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.
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...
Read moreYour 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....
Read morePulitzer & 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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Travel Channel President Pat Younge addresses the group Mrs Rosenblum explains how to Learn Shoot and Earn
Read moreTravel 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...
Read moreReport 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....
Read moreHello Mrs. Chips
Good Morning Brazil… This morning, we wake up in the almost incomprehensible Sao Paolo. With a population of nearly 20 million people, covering an area of 3,108 square miles, it is the largest city in the world. (by some...
Read morePostcard From Rio
If you were born 500 years ago…..can you hear me in the back? We are in lovely Rio de Janiero. I came down here to be the keynote speaker at MediaOn, a Latin American conference on online digital journalism,...
Read moreWorld Book
The whole world on the shelf… When I was a kid my parents bought the World Book Encyclopedia. It was amazing. Particularly that thing on the human body, where they had those transparent pages of organs, bones, veins and...
Read moreAmusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman 1931-2003 Every once in a while you read a book that changes your life. Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman was such a book for me. Although I read it in 1985, it was a book...
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