U of Colorado J School Makes The Right Moves
I can’t seem to get online from here… I was in the class of 1983 at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. The MA program lasts only 9 months, so I started the school in the fall of 1982....
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 moreIs Video a Language?
Look around… Video is a language. Just like French or Arabic or Chinese. It is a way that we communicate ideas from one to another. You can pick up ‘street video’ (point the camera and push the button) just...
Read moreMasters Of The Information Universe!
Arise! You ink stained wretches!! We live in the ‘Information Era”. That, at least, is what everyone says. And it is true. What we do almost all day long is process information, of one kind or another. In another...
Read moreHow To Make Millions in Journalism
Wake up!!! OK. So yesterday I had my meeting with Nick Lemann, the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. I pitched him my concept. Here it is: 1. Â I want to run a course at...
Read moreColumbia University Graduate School of The Internet
www.thefuture.com I have a meeting with Nicholas Lemann this afternoon. He is the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. I, myself, am a graduate of the J-school at Columbia, class of ’83. I also taught...
Read moreWhy Journalism Failed
The last bastion of Feudalism in the US If you went to Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, the odds are you could just as easily have gone to Columbia University’s Law School instead. Had you gone there, however,...
Read moreA New Kind of Journalism
Net assets: 1.3 billion U.S. dollars When I went to Columbia University the great hero of broadcast journalism was Edward R Murrow. When I went to work at CBS, Murrow’s visage stared out at me in the lobby. Â At...
Read moreJournalists….. arise! You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Chains
I’m currently working on a piece about homeless people in San Francisco Why are we such wimps? Journalism is in utter collapse and we wander around asking whether perhaps the answer is not to turn the New York Times...
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key to survival A posting on b-roll.net and a conversation at lunch yesterday with Kevin Klose, former President of NPR and new Dean of the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland gave me food for...
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