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.
Newspapers to Video 2
[blip.tv ?posts_id=996421&dest=-1] Cancer Care by John O’Boyle This is a piece by Newark Star Ledger VJ John O’Boyle. He shot it, wrote it, voiced it, produced it, and edited it alone. We are now three weeks out from the...
Read moreBe Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
Really Scary Stuff! New technologies unleash changes that turn societies on their heads. These dislocations can be very disorienting. Even though the printing press was invented in 1452, its full impact was not really felt until the mid 18th...
Read moreThe Power of the Press
Best newspaper in the world? Maybe… Last night we had dinner with our friend Gary Younge. He is a columnist for The Guardian, the British newspaper. A paper many believe to be among the world’s best. Gary noted that...
Read moreWhen Technology Meets Resistance
Over the top The British General Sir Douglas Haig knew how to fight a war. He was the head of the BEF, the British Expeditionary Force in France and he had been in the Army all his life. Haig’s...
Read moreNewspapers to Video
Live from the newspaper This week The Washington Post announced that they were going to train 300 people in their newsroom to be video literate. Across the country, newspapers are rapidly embracing video. As newspapers and video migrate to...
Read moreChop The Carrots
[youtube=<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/d5DQqiWHyaI&hl=en”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/d5DQqiWHyaI&hl=en” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>] Want to see what the Travel Channel Academy is like? Here are a few minutes from the ‘5-shot’ lecture. For those of you who have already taken the course, you...
Read moreStoney Goldstein Changes His Life
[youtube=<object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_PdWrQmMDxU&hl=en”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_PdWrQmMDxU&hl=en” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”344″></embed></object>] As Stoney Goldstein emails me, ‘youtube really sucks’. There is terrible deterioration in the quality of the video, but you’ll still get the idea. Stoney just took our 4-day course...
Read moreWhat are YOU doing this weekend?
44 lucky people are spending this weekend in Washington DC at the Travel Channel Academy, where they’re making a lifelong relationship with a cable broadcasting network and learning an important new skill. And they’re also having a heck of...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy DC
We kick off another 4-day Travel Channel Academy bootcamp with a full house and a team ready to go. For the very first time we are working out of Travel Channel’s new offices in Chevy Chase. Nice!
Read moreLedger Live!
OK Joe…talk to me… Yesterday you saw what a great job the journalists at the Newark Star Ledger were doing in adapting to video. They beat the crap out of local TV news… and they haven’t even started yet!...
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