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A post on Brian Ross’ blog on ABCNews.com got the ball rolling on the email investigation surrounding now former Congressman Mark Foley, said Howard Kurtz on CNN’s Reliable Sources. The post about an email to a 16-year-old page resulted in Ross receiving far more sexually explicit messages, which lead to a story on air. Goes to show that blogs can be a powerful tool for news organizations.
3 comments October 1st, 2006
So Bob Woodward and his publisher Simon & Schuster had a plan. The Washington Post would break excerpts from his new book, “State of Denial” on Sunday. 60 Minutes would interview him on Sunday night. And his book would hit store shelves on Monday. But instead, the New York Times and The Daily News broke the juiciest parts of the book on Friday, which resulted in the publisher releasing the book on Saturday and the Washington Post scrambling a story into print. Adding to the intrigue, 60 Minutes began promoting the story on CBSNews.com on Thursday. Finally, to add insult to injury, the NY Times published a story today with the title, “A Reporter Who Scoops His Own Paper,” which asks why Woodward gets to break some of his best news in his books, instead of in the paper he works for. Good question.
3 comments October 1st, 2006
Looks like Fox News has a YouTube page called “The Blast,” which was in existence before the whole Clinton video flap. Interesting. (Thanks, Don!)
8 comments October 1st, 2006
“[Web video] is not replacing the high-end, high quality programs on television. They are offering different experiences,” said NBCU CEO Jeff Zucker at Wired’s NextFest conference. What about YouTube? “I don’t think we can ignore it, anymore.” He said YouTube has been great promotion, “but then we said ‘why don’t we have the ability to do this ourselves?’” Zucker said NBBC is a step in that direction. Meanwhile, Judy McGrath, Chairman and CEO of MTV Networks, said “the notion of exclusivity has blown up. It has no value. Any exposure [of music videos or a TV network’s programming] helps. It doesn’t hurt. It somehow rubs off on us. It’s additive. It’s the greatest thing that could have happened.”
20 comments October 1st, 2006
Samsung’s “HDTV Play of the Game” ad was not in high definition. No joke.
5 comments October 1st, 2006
A piece in this week’s Broadcasting & Cable tackles the subject of local TV sports coverage, a topic we’ve discussed a few occasions here on LR. Sports departments are redefining their coverage, and Magid is urging clients to adopt a “zero sum” approach to sports: daily coverage fights with news stories for a slot in the rundown. But the big issue here is the fact that local TV stations have nearly lost their competitive positions with sports online. Many stations are now focusing on high school sports — a worthy pursuit — but that’s just a segment of online sports coverage that’s dominated by local newspaper websites, ESPN.com and even local blogs. As stations redefine their TV sports coverage, they must redouble their efforts online. In fact, I would argue that online sports coverage is just as important as TV sports coverage, and resources should be split accordingly. It’s that important, but you have to ask, is it already too late?
7 comments October 1st, 2006
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