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.
Journalism and Volcanoes
A really big news day In 79AD, a really big news story hit the Roman Empire. Mt. Vesuvius, an active volcano in Italy erupted and destroyed the cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii. The news story, however, did not make...
Read moreHere Is What Journalism Should Sound Like
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Eric Whitacre is a 39 year old avant-garde composer and music conductor. He is also a man who has provided us with a model of how journalism in the 21st Century can work. Without meaning to. The piece...
Read moreA Model for a New Journalism
Harness the power that is already out there. New technologies are a bitch. They’re a bitch because you can’t argue with them – or even have a rational discussion. When automobiles were invented at the turn of the century,...
Read moreDSLR Cameras Crack The High End Barrier
Most popular on Fox… except for American Idol… I like House. My favorite episode is the one where the patient with the rare disease comes in with a wide range of symptoms. No one can figure it out. They...
Read moreThe Facts Before Your Eyes
The Jurassic Coast, England Until 1790, everyone knew that the earth was 4004 years old. Everyone. Exactly 4004 years. This was not a religious dogma subscribed to by a few school boards in Texas, this was then accepted as...
Read moreBarbarians at the Gate
Tonight, on American Idol….. I am about half-way through Susan Wise Bauer’s The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade. It is a fascinating book. Fascinating because it deals with a period...
Read moreA Roadmap for Video for the 21st Century
When photography moved from craft to art… Sometimes change appears right before your eyes… or in this case, under your feet. The Museum of Modern Art in NY (MoMA) is opening an exhibition of the photographic work of Henri...
Read moreFathers and Sons
My father, Robert Rosenblum, in 1952 I spent the years 1977-79 traveling around the world with a camera. I once thought I would be a photojournalist, and this seemed the best way to start. My father was deeply disappointed...
Read moreUSA Today Outsources Content to Demand Media
The future has to start somewhere…. OK So here’s the situation: You have newspapers, magazines and TV stations that need more and more content as the web and iPhones continue to consume stuff all the time. At the same...
Read moreWiFi at the Monastery
6 bedrooms, 3 baths, built in 1274. Good condition. This week we are living at Renscombe Farm in the village of Worth Matravers on the south coast of England. The house was once a monastery, built in the 13th...
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