The Word From Down Under
hopping mad… Pat Younge, President and GM for The Travel Channel sent me a very interesting article from The Australian. JOURNALISTS have been warned they cannot be spectators if they are to survive the new world of media fragmentation...
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 moreThe Academy – DC
Yesterday, fresh from the flight from London (and what a terrible airport Dulles is), we kicked off the DC training academy. Forty more asipring Videojournalists started the four-day intensive course in video literacy and prepared to join the digital...
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 moreBrussels – March 4-5th, 2009
Come on in… We are here in the Rosenblum Institute in Brussels to firm up the agenda for DNA2009. We have moved the conference to the Plaza Hotel in downtown Brussels, which has a nice, old world feel to...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy Santa Barbara
It is hard to believe that four days have gone by so quickly. But the results were great, and everyone learned a lot. There are now forty new certified Travel Channel Academy Journalists, and as VP Sue Norton explained...
Read moreThe BBC, Hyperlocal News and VJs
The following comes to me from Alan Morrison in New Zealand – a very loyal correspondent. In 2005 we built 5 hyperlocal news nodes for the BBC in and around Birmingham, England as a test pilot. Each node was...
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