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.
Our 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.
Read moreThis Just In…….
Mark Antonitis, GM at KRON4 in San Francisco sends us the following: CLASSIFIEDS VIDEO JOURNALISTS/Associated Press, Washington, DC Jun. 27, 2007-Jul. 13, 2007 The Associated Press seeks video journalists and producers for our online and video services. Video journalists...
Read moreThe Future of Local TV News?
is this the future of tv news?
Read moreTC Academy Goes Live
….from pilot to reality….. In the TV business, one first does a pilot. If it rates it goes to series. In March of this year, we ran a pilot of our Travel Channel Academy in partnership with The Travel...
Read moreKGTV Part 4
…now we’ve reached critical mass…. This week, we returned to KGTV for the fourth VJ (or as they call it here), DC (for Digital Correspondent) bootcamp. There are 10 journalists, camerapeople, editors, producers as well as one assignment editor...
Read moreBanana Republic
..today it’s oil….then it was bananas…. We live in a world in which our perception of events is informed almost exclusively by television.
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