The Repository of All Human Knowledge
what would you like to know…. OK It’s one of those late night Science Fiction movies in which a time traveller goes into the future and discovers that the whole world has become a land in which learning and...
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World’s first media critic….. Sir Thomas Gresham was an English merchant who worked for both King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I (1519-1579) Gresham was also the world’s first media critic, although he didn’t know it at the time....
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Motown news When it comes to cutting edge trends, we generally say that California leads and the nation follows. When it comes to contracting industries, maybe that accolade should go to Detroit. This week, as automakers made their case...
Read moreA Silver Lining
cotton….. Sometimes, in the destruction of one industry lies the seeds of another one. But it is not easy to see. In 1852, the discovery of domestic sources of oil spelled the death knell of the whaling business. In...
Read moreOpen Letter to a Newspaper Editor
Gimme a second… On Monday, I gave a speech to the Society of Editors in the UK. At the end of the speech, we opened the floor to questions, and I was asked by Doug Melloy, the editor of...
Read moreSociety of Editors 08: Michael Rosenblum | Online Journalism Blog
part 2 of the speech Second half of speech to UK Society of Editors on the future of video online. Thanks to Paul Bradshaw for recording an posting this. [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.744200&w=425&h=350&fv=] more about “Society of Editors 08: Michael Rosenb…“,...
Read moreThar She Blows…..
Today’s killer is tomorrow’s endangered species… The flight from Los Angeles to Brussels is endless, so it gave me plenty of time to read Snowball,Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder. The book is much more...
Read moreDarwinian Journalism
An evolving medium In the Autumn of 1836, The Beagle, a British ship on a 4-year voyage around the world dropped anchor in the Galapagos Islands, off Ecuador. The ship would stay for a month. Aboard was a young...
Read moreWhat Is A Newspaper?
All the news that’s fit to print…. or other stuff also? In 1452 when Johannes Gutenberg first laid paper on inked movable type, he printed a bible. He printed a bible because that was the only kind of book...
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