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.
The Look of the New
In 1994, I launched a new company called Video News International. It was based on the idea of using VJs around the world to create television; an idea that, at that time, was considered extremely radical. Television then was...
Read moreDo You Really Wanna Be A Geek All Of Your Life????
Career prep for the non-math students amongst us… OK When I was in school, there were two kinds of people: math and non-math. The math people walked around with slide rules in their pockets (yes, I am that old),...
Read moreThe Bacon Channel!
What’s going to happen now??? I am launching The Bacon Channel I am sure it is going to be a big success. How do I know? Amazon recently bought Twitch – a gaming channel. It isn’t a channel where you play...
Read moreThe Irish Rebellion, The Printing Press & The iPhone
The Easter Rising, (Éirí Amach na Cáscaone), of the most significant events in Irelands long march to independence from British rule, occurred on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916 and lasted for six days. The British army responded with crushing...
Read moreThe Best and Worst Jobs for 2014
Forbes Magazine recently posted a list of the Ten Best and Worst Jobsfor 2014. Newspaper Journalist came in 2nd. Second worst job you can have. Lumberjack was first. Of course, as a lumberjack you get to spend a lot of...
Read moreINSTAGRAM AND INSTANT DEATH
My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1971 Photo WIkileaks Commons / Library of Congress Vietnam was called “The Livingroom War”. That’s because it was the first war in US history that came along with live television coverage. For the first time,...
Read moreHow To Start Your Own Video Production Company @Guardian
More than one hundred people showed up at The Guardian in London for our very first HOW TO START YOUR OWN VIDEO PRODUCTION COMPANY seminar. We had never done one of these before, but we had a feeling that...
Read moreWARNING! COPYRIGHT DANGERS!
I have been writing blogs for about seven years now. I used to use a lot of pictures to illustrate the points I wanted to make. These were mostly images I found on the web. If I was talking...
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