“We can’t see the forest for the T-Mobiles,” a Washington Post essay today by Adrian Higgins, rounds up some current facts and commentary about whether mobs of people staring at screens have lost touch with the natural world. An example given is wondering whether [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Whether user generated video from the new YouTube Direct will create valuable content for its launch partners including the Washington Post, NPR, Politico and the Huffington Post is too early to say.
But UGC can augment the traditional news gathering operations of big news operations, according [...]
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Google announced a new project they have been working on with the New York Times and the Washington Post, called News by Topics. Displayed above is an example topic, The War In Afghanistan.
I like the timeline feature, with various stories arrayed by date, and displayed in [...]
WASHINGTON, DC -- To succeed with monetizing online video, media companies need to better understand their audiences -- but they don't, said Caroline Little, former CEO of Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive who is now CEO of the Guardian News & Media, North America.
And, they need to build targeted audiences with' [...]
Google has launched a new type of topics page as an experiment, in partnership with The Washington Post and The New York Times, called Living Stories.
Here is a video explaining the concept:
We are not a national news organization of record serving a general audience. - Marcus Brauchli, executive editor, The Washington Post
via David Carr, Howard Kurtz
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When I heard that The Washington Post had let go two well-known video journalists, Steve Yelvington's tweet summed up my initial reaction: "WP online layoffs are sad and self-defeating, a step backward as printies seize power."
While the Post isn't officially talking about individuals affected, I've confirmed that Travis' [...]
The recent cuts at the Washington Post — as reported by Politico and Washington’s City Paper — have once again brought to the surface a culture clash that has been going on in mainstream newsrooms for most of the last decade, and one that shows no sign of [...]
YouTube today launched YouTube Direct, a new tool that allows media organizations to request, review and rebroadcast YouTube clips directly from YouTube users. Launch partners for YouTube Direct include ABC News, the Huffington Post, NPR, Politico, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, [...]
At yesterday’s New Business Models for (Local) News summit at CUNY, I ran what I called a reverse panel with big media folks – NY Times, Washington Post, Gannett, Star-Ledger, Impremedia, Politico – sitting up front but ordered to listen to the wishes and needs of the [...]
