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.
Collateral Damage
During the Vietnam War it was called Collateral Damage. You called in air support and the next thing you knew, they were dropping explosives on your own position Bombing was not a precise science in those days. State of...
Read moreHere’s The Pitch….
OK. Well how about this one….. Pitching a show to a network is a pain… You get the meeting, and when you walk into the room, the VP for Programming sits behind his or her desk, hands clasped behind...
Read moreMicroeconomics
A penny for your thoughts… “Monetization” of the web is the holy grail. Content is migrating to the web far more rapidly than advertising dollars. As well, newspapers, magazines and TV stations are finite, and the percentage of advertising...
Read moreThe Canary in the Coalmine
still alive… but barely There is no question but that we have ‘dumbed down’ TV news. But has TV news ‘dumbed down’ society, or is TV news simply chasing a dumber public? For many years, I taught at New...
Read moreOne Down… Two to Go
And that’s the way it is…. CBS News apparently is about to outsource part of its newsgathering operation to CNN, or so says The New York Times. This is hardly surprising. For far too long network news operations have...
Read moreAfter 25 Years
Last night, we held an open house herefor members of the Class of 1983, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. It was my class, and it’s our 25th Anniversary. The class has done well. We have 5 Pulitzer Prize...
Read moreThe Bottom of the Barrel
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vg4BTPIqbI&hl=en] If there were an Emmy for dumbness, this one would win. While newspapers embrace video and we debate whether the revolution that Leica brought to photojournalism can be translated to small video cameras, there is another revolution going...
Read moreWhen Photographers Go To Video
David Hume Kennerly In 1990, on the heels of NY1, I was approached by a Wall Street guy who suggested that I should raise some money and start my own company based on the VJ concept. He took me...
Read moreWe Take The Newark Star Ledger to Video
The morning meeting – now its print, online and video This morning we began a project we have been awaiting with great anticipation- taking The Newark Star Ledger into the world of video. The Star Ledger is the 15th...
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