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.

Detroit Homicide

USING VJ SKILLS TO PILOT NEW SHOWS NBC’s Jeff Zucker just made the (to my mind) unusual announcement that henceforth NBC would not longer engage in piloting. This strikes me as a bit strange. I guess when you spend...

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Here It Comes

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Travel Channel Student Blog

Here’s what Tanya posted on her blog today:

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Why VJs are Inevitable

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TRAVEL CHANNEL ACADEMY GRADS SPEAK

[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6ZgJmRSbNE&rel=1]] The grads of the most recent NY Travel Channel Academy speak for themselves!

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The Insanity Is Still Alive

I am deeply disturbed by an emailed blog I received this evening. It comes from something called “The Synagogue of Satan“, and it is a long, deep and deeply disturbed blog about how Jews both control the media and...

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Travel Channel Academy NY

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Cheerleaders

[youtube=[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLwGqtt_Z78&rel=1]] OK. You want to see an example of my VJ work. Here’s one. I don’t make a living as a VJ. My job is to sell the concept, implement it, teach it. But from time to time I...

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Travel Channel Academy – 2008

We’re starting the 2008 season off with our first Travel Channel Academy here in New York. Forty new freshly minted Travel Journalists (TJs) will soon be credentialed and ready to hit the streets of Shanghai, Mexico City, Nairobi and...

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Back to School

Following the winter break, Lisa and I start our new class at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. Our curriculum is a bit ‘unorthodox’, but we think we’re giving them a good head start for...

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