MSNBC.com partners with Condé Nast
Yet another content partnership for MSNBC. Condé Nast magazines and online properties will provide content primarily to MSNBC’s business, entertainment, health, travel and Today Show sections. The deal will include content from Style.com, Men.Style.com, Epicurious.com, and Concierge.com, as well as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appétit. Glamour, GQ, and others. Back in July we learned that MSNBC was partnering with the NY Times for political coverage. Press release…
It finally gets a name: Hulu.com
The News Corp. and NBCU video venture now has a name, Hulu.com. “Why Hulu?” writes CEO Jason Kilar on the site. “Objectively, Hulu is short, easy to spell, easy to pronounce, and rhymes with itself. Subjectively, Hulu strikes us as an inherently fun name, one that captures the spirit of the service we’re building.” Hulu [...]
Newspapers make money on real estate: their own
Free article at WSJ.com today on how some newspapers have decided to make money off real estate. Not by classifieds, mind you – but by selling their buildings. The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Boston Herald are profiled here, and the trend seems clear – the papers are looking for infusions of cash, and there is [...]
CBS sending Couric to Iraq, Syria
Katie Couric and small CBS team leave today for 12 days in Iraq and Syria, with live reports beginning Sept. 4th (Gen. Petraeus’ report comes out Sept.15th). When she first took the CBS job, Couric was critical of anchor trips to Iraq — she has never been there — unless she can advance the story. [...]
MySpace hosting U.S. concert tour this fall
MySpace will hold a tour of 30 concerts this fall, featuring acts that have a big following on its social network. The MySpace Music Tour begins October 16 in Seattle and finishes up in Vegas in late November. According to CNet: The headlining acts for the MySpace Music Tour will be two artists who’ve built [...]
Internet speed: more proof we get ripped off
Broadband service in Japan is eight to 30 times faster than in the U.S., according to a report in today’s WaPo. It’s also much cheaper. The speed advantage allows the Japanese to watch broadcast-quality, full-screen television over the Internet, an experience that mocks the grainy, wallet-size images Americans endure. WaPo also has a graphic that [...]
EarthLink will cut half its workforce
Internet service provider EarthLink says it’s cutting 900 jobs – that’s about half the people who work for them – and closing four offices. It’s also buying back $200 million of its stock. What did Wall Street think? It likes the moves. EarthLink stock jumped 6% yesterday and is up another 4% as of this [...]
Digg rolls out new look
Social news site Digg got a fresh coat of paint, and some new features under the hood. Here’s Wired’s write up. Top new features include a revamped top navigation, and the inclusion of still frames when a video item shows up in the rundown. Users can also now bury a story with a single click. [...]
How did Craig’s guilty plea almost go undetected?
Editor and Publisher asks the question of the day: how on Earth did yesterday’s revelation about Idaho Sen. Larry Craig go undetected for so long? The Craig story is one that has been very much on the radar of every newsroom in the state of Idaho for years – and that focus got even more [...]
Video search: still crappy, here’s why
You know that 1994 video that turned up recently of Vice President Cheney saying that invading Iraq would turn into a quagmire? Jon Garfunkel at PBS MediaShift wanted to know how it got onto YouTube. (It turns out it was posted by a New York City artist.) In his hunt, Jon looked into the larger [...]
Today’s Tidbits
Noted on the web: – CNN.com and Google Adsense do “exclusive” ad deal – Heaton: “Viewing Down, Ad Rates Up. Go Figure.” – NBCU buys international Hallmark channels – The kid who hacked his iPhone to work on T-Mobile? Trading it for a new car. – FNC uses picture of NYT Executive Editor Bill Keller [...]
‘Vs. Thinking’ Watch: OPA in London
Jeff Jarvis points us to video from a panel he was on at the Online Publishers Association conference in London last week that presents yet another case of “vs. thinking.” I’m as tired as Jeff of the “newspapers vs. bloggers” debate, yet the hand-wringing keeps coming up in conference after conference. The newspapers (“We brought [...]
New technique could change image treatments
This video is a bit on the wonky side – but the potential of this new technique is incredible. The process – called “seam carving,” allows images to be expanded and contracted in a way I’ve never seen before. The ethical questions it may raise for journalists (especially of the online flavor) could spark interesting [...]
News Corp. 10-K reveals all sorts of goodies
Forbes breaks down the latest 10-K filing for News Corp., and comes up with a raft of fun nuggets. – News would have to pay a $165 million termination fee if the DJ deal falls apart – Google’s MySpace deal is worth an astounding $900 million to News Corp. through 2010 – Rupert Murdoch’s wife [...]
Newspaper ad placements raise ire
Earlier today Cory apologized for a Google AdSense display ad appearing here on LR. These two items on Romensko today should make all of us in Lost Remote Nation feel better (since someone other than a machine has control of the following ad placements) – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution put an ad for Showtime’s “Weeds” and [...]
cbsnews.com, washingtonpost.com form political partnership
The online news operations for CBS News and the Washington Post will begin an online partnership to cover the 2008 presidential race, according to the AP. There is a big difference between this deal, and the one between NBC and the NY Times that we told you about back in July. This deal is online [...]
TMZ adds ‘audio comments’ to its blog
Celebrity gossip blog (don’t pretend you don’t care) TMZ has added audio comments beneath some of its blog entries. Users can record their comments via a little interface, and then the site posts them right next to the traditional text comments. TMZ is filtering the audio comments, which are about the quality you would expect [...]
New anchor joins CNN.com
CNN.com announced today that Reggie Aqui is joining its online anchor team. Aqui has been a freelance reporter for CNN in Chicago, and prior to that he worked for KHOU. No offense to Reggie, but my favorite CNN.com anchor will remain Nicole Lapin, who even has her own unofficial fan site. (Did you see her [...]
I apologize for the crappy ad
One of those stupid Bill O’Reilly “Is Fox Fair and Balanced Ads” keeps serving via Google on the home page today. I hate it as much as you do, but I can’t opt out of it. Sheesh.
Fox stations launch FoxHiLites.com
Fox rounds out the long list of media companies jumping into high school sports with today’s official launch of FoxHiLites.com in 23 markets. The site encourages sports fans to upload video which may appear on TV. “Whether they’re interested in sports, the arts or showing school spirit, FoxHiLites.com offers a robust online platform where they [...]
