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.
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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...
Read moreVermont in the News
Marselis Parsons, News Director and Anchor for WCAX TV. Can we talk? Labor Day in Vermont is tough. Rather than fly back to NY, we spent the day at the Champlaign State Fair, just outside of Burlington, Besides the...
Read moreBittman-Doe & Dough
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Ah9ES2yTU&hl=en&fs=1] This weekend, having just flown in from London, we got on a Jet Blue flight to Burlington, Vermont, where we spent the weekend at the Mark Bittman / Kelly Doe wedding. Bittman is an old friend of ours,...
Read moreThere’s Something Happening Here…
Obama before 84,000 fans in Denver…. New technologies demand new ideas. Really radical new ideas. The biggest mistake people can make is to try and jam new technologies into old business models. Newspapers, for example, are in serious, serious...
Read moreListening To The Technology
What is it saying? Andy Grove, former Chairman and co-founder of Intel said, ‘listen to the technology. The technology wil tell you what to do” We are in an industry created by and dictated by technology. As the technology...
Read moreMy First Job in TV
No God but The God I got an email this morning from Rosemary Stanfield-Johnson, Professor of Safavid history at The University of Minnesota. Let’s hear it for the web. I have not seen Rosemary Stanfield since 1980, when I...
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