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.
NBC Network News Goes VJ
[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4F-gYjYU5Y&rel=1]] I am, of course, sorry they did not go with us, but as NBC starts running these ads, it would seem the ‘theoretical’ part of our conversation is now officially over.
Read moreWe Break 1,000 in One Day!
Thanks, Steve! A little more than a year ago, Steve Safran, of Lost Remote fame (and now I hear heading out on his own), suggested that I start a blog. I had no idea how to do this, so...
Read moreA VJ Story
[Youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HblwE0Opgfc&rel=1]] Foot Patrol by Raul Gallego Abellan. On March 3-4 we will conduct what I hope will be the world’s largest global VJ conference, DNA2008 in Brussels. As part of that conference, we will award our annual VJ Prize...
Read more25 Years Later
Just think….. It is hard to believe, but we are now preparing for the 25th anniversary reunion of my class at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. People I have not heard from in, oh, 25 years, are beginning...
Read moreHow To Get Ratings
If you don’t get ratings, you don’t survive…. Saturday morning, Silver Spring Maryland and Eliza Booth, Head of Marketing is talking to the Travel Academy Class about how marketing and programming weaves together. There aren’t too many people in...
Read moreWhy The Travel Channel Academy is Unique
Matt Gould explains what the network wants… If you are production company, you know the hard part is not coming up with ideas. Everyone has great ideas for new TV shows. The hard part is not even producing them....
Read more"Did Rosenblum Abandon Us?"
Nice guy Kevin Johnson has been running a lovely website for professional cameramen for years called b-roll.net. About 5 years ago, I was invited to participate on the site in a discussion about a rumor that ‘Ivan’ had heard...
Read moreUnstoppable
Get out of the way!!!! In 1821, George Stephenson, the ‘father of railways’ build the world’s first commercially viable steam railway between Darlington and Stockton-on-Tees, a distance of 14 miles. The train was not fast, It took nearly two...
Read moreA Question from the newspaper folks
“That is so true. I just had a reporter say to me: “I used to know what I was doing when I left the newsroom. I had a pen behind my ear and a notebook in my pocket. But...
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