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.
KRON – Two Years Later
works like a newspaper… but in video…. Two years ago this week we started the conversion of KRON4 in San Francisco to the VJ model.
Read moreDisposable Content
the burning of the Great Library at Alexandria… the MGM version… This morning we had a meeting with the head of one of the largest newspaper groups in the world, based in the UK. We were early…(which I think...
Read moreFailure at Channel One
Time for a change… I am in London this week, meeting with a number of major newspaper groups who are moving to video online. Once a newspaper goes online, and once online goes to video, it is only a...
Read moreFreedom to Fail
success if only for those who are willing to take risks…. Television is expensive to make. Books are cheap.
Read moreTJ Academy – 2 July sessions – sign up now!
Travel Channel President & GM Pat Younge meets with Academy participants. If you want to break into the TV business, you can’t beat this kind of access…. We are taking enrollment for the Travel Channel Academy. We are running...
Read moreWikimedia???
…”and when we come back, sports and weather…” In 1979, Iranian militants took the US Embassy hostage. They would hold it for 444 days.
Read moreOur Idiot Culture
Sometimes it isn’t relative. Sometimes it is very specific… In a lovely new book, entitled The Canon, New York Times science writer Natalie Angier warns of the growing gap between knowledge of science and the real world in America.
Read moreKGTV Class of June ’07
Newly minted grads from our most recent VJ Bootcamp in San Diego
Read moreTwo Pieces from KGTV Bootcamp
The KGTV bootcamp is proceeding extremely well. So well in fact that I am already posting two of the ‘training’ pieces, done on the fourth day of training. Looks like everyone has done a great job, but as I...
Read moreCross Pollination
Zoe Randall, alumnus from the Miami Travel Channel Academy bootcamp last month drops by KGTV professional bootcamp to take a look at her possible next step.
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